Table eight has lost Masato Yokosawa and Alex Foxen dropped to around 20 big blinds shortly after when he raised and called the three-bet to 10,000 by Mike Watson. The flop came and Foxen check-folded to a bet of 5,000.
Aaron van Blarcum in the big blind bet the river for what appeared to be 7,700 and kept one T-25,000 chip behind. Orpen Kisacikoglu made the call and van Blarcum tabled the for a bluff, which Kisacikoglu had beat holding for a straight.
Michael Lim was all in for 27,100 with the and Timothy Adams looked him up with .
Instead of hitting an ace or the flush, Adams hit trips tens on a board of to eliminate Lim, who had won the A$100,000 Challenge at the 2018 Aussie Millions.
Shortly after, Koichi Haruta was eliminated on another table and that reduced the field to the last 32 hopefuls.
On a flop of , there were already more than 70,000 in the middle and Chin Wei Lim bet 18,000 to receive a call from Orpen Kisacikoglu. Lim jammed the on the turn and Kisacikoglu instantly called.
Chin Wei Lim:
Orpen Kisacikoglu:
Kisacikoglu had the checkmark with his full house, kings over eights, and a meaningless fell on the river to send Kisacikoglu into the top spot with 34 players remaining.
Stephen Chidwick jammed for 18,900 and was called by Timothy Adams in the small blind. "Aces would be nice now," Michael Lim in the big blind joked, glanced at his cards and folded.
Stephen Chidwick:
Timothy Adams:
The board kept Chidwick in the running as Adams missed out on two overcards and a flushdraw.
Shortly after, Chdiwick was all-in for 41.800 with the and was called by initial raiser Sam Grafton.
Stephen Chidwick:
Sam Grafton:
On a flop of , Chidwick picked up a gutshot and flushdraw. He improved to a pair thanks to the turn and the river was a blank.
Michael Addamo and Stephen Chidwick clashed over on table seven and the cards were already on their backs as the flop showed . Addamo had flopped a set with while Chidwick turned over for the overpair. The turn and river run out changed nothing whatsoever and Addamo doubled for 65,800 with a set.
Shortly after, Addamo was barely done stacking his chips, he got it in with against a short-stacked George Wolff with ace-ten and the board came up blank for Wolff.