Tubs Murphy was among the casualties on Day 1, along with Kyren Wilson and Anthony Hamilton.
Carter, Maguire, Liang Wenbo and Mark Allen have all fallen by the wayside now
Ronnie lost in the afternoon, so Barry Hearn's £1m is safe again.
Mark Williams remains the only top player left, and meets Elliot Slessor today who won a mightily tedious 5.5 hour effort. I kept going back to sleep, that's how bad it was.
Yan Bigface meets Lu Haotian in the other match.
Williams just beat Slessor
Yan the Man got through comfortably. He's only 17.
Congratulations to Mark Williams winning the northern Ireland open 9 - 8 against Yan Bintao
I might have thought they wouldn't find as emotional a match & result as they did 12 months ago with Mark King, but they did it. Poor Mark Williams with his wife, the last man who needs that sort of X Factor sob story to go with, but to arise from 6-3 down to take it well in the decider is why he really is one of the all-time greats. All credit to Yan too, who must have set up 3-4 tough snookers at the end, still giving it his all. He ought to have won something before he gets to 20.
Judd Trump has got his act together at the Scawtish Open, with a whitewash.
Maguire also came through in a whitewash.
Defending champ Marco Fu and runner-up John Higgins also got through.
But Barry Hawkins' bad run continued as he lost.