Huidong Gu is still in the tournament and just three-bet shoved out of the small blind for 142,000. Dan Smith gave it some consideration but ultimately mucked. While Gu grabbed the pot, he remains short on around 11 big blinds for the next blind level.
The elimination of Ivan Luca has been confirmed by Jason Wheeler and it was his table neighbor Senh Ung that did te work. Luca three-bet with and was called by Ung with . On the flop , Luca shoved with his two pair and Ung called, spiking an ace on the turn to complete a straight.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier opened to 40,000 under the gun in the first hand at the new blind level. On the button, Shaun Deeb looked down at and decided to go with it, pushing in for a little less than 300,000.
Mercier made the call with and found a way to crawl out from under Deeb's domination on an run out.
Deeb went broke and Mercier joined the growing group of players over the one-million mark.
In the first hand, Dzmitry Urbanovich intended to four-bet jam into Christopher Frank and pushed a stack of green T-25,000 chips forward for a squeeze to 425,000. Frank however had more chips and then moved all in for 465,000, tabling the . Urbanovich flipped over and much to the surprise of everyone, didn't get there on the board .
One hand later, Urbanovich four-bet jammed with pocket threes and Frank snap-called with pocket aces on the button to win back-to-back hands against the EPT wonderkid and score the knockout.
The last 24 players are now moving up to the main tournament area and the redraw is taking place there. Before play continues there will be a 75-minute dinner break.
Play will resume at approximately 9:50 p.m. local time.
The High Rollers are back in action with 21 minutes remaining in the current level. Only the top 17 spots get paid and thus the bubble will be played with three six-handed tables.
Jason Wheeler raised from under the gun and then called off when Julian Stuer shipped it from the small blind for around seven big blinds. Wheeler had and Stuer was ahead with , the board changed nothing whatsoever.