Nicolas Chouity opened to 50,000 with on the button and Ryan Riess three-bet all of it for a total of 600,000. Chouity passed and Riess collected the pot.
Fady Kamar made it 60,000 to go and Jorden Verbraeken asked for his stack size before making the call in the big blind. Verbraeken checked the flop and Kamar checked behind. Verbraeken bet the turn for 90,000 and Kamar called before the Belgian jammed the on the river.
Kamar asked for a count and the shove was for 505,000, which had Kamar narrowly covered. After using two time banks, Kamar sent his cards into the muck.
On a flop, Conor Beresford and Luis Medina were in the blinds and checked to Nicola Grieco in middle position, who bet 75,000. Beresford check-called, Medina check-raised to 260,000, Grieco folded, and Beresford called.
The turn got checked by both players. Beresford bet 200,000 on the river and Medina opted to let it go.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau has been very quiet so far on the feature table. With in the hole, he opened under the gun to 50,000 out of 440,000. Only Sam Greenwood (in the big blind) paid the price and it was heads up to the flop.
It came down and Greenwood check-raised Vaskaboinikau's 35,000 bet to 125,000. Vaskaboinikau declared all in and Greenwood snap-folded.
Melika Razavi opened to 65,000 and Wei Huang called in the cutoff. On the flop, Razavi continued for 75,000 and Huang called. Both then checked the turn and river and Razavi was first to show, flipping over the . That was good enough to scoop the pot.
Right after, Razavi defended out of the blinds against Rustam Hajiyev and they checked a flop. Razavi checked and called a bet of 45,000 on the turn before check-folding the river to a bet of 260,000 by Hajiyev.
Manig Loeser is wielding his big stack well and is now up over 4 million in chips, which is over 20 percent of the total in play. He just took another pot after applying pressure to Nicolas Chouity on the river.
Loser had defended from the big blind against Chouity's 55,000 middle position open with . On the flop, Loeser checked and Chouity checked it back. The on the turn saw a lead from Loeser for 50,000, which Chouity called with an up and down straight draw.
The river was checked by Loeser and Chouity opted to bet, making it 145,000. Loeser didn't take long to raise his opponent, putting 425,000 over the line and Chouity snap-folded.
In the last hand before the break, James Romero got value off Jorden Verbraeken when he raised from 50,000 to 250,000 on the river and tabled as the winning hand.
The new level started with a jam by Karoly Odor and a three-bet shove of Verbraeken, which both got through. Then, Wei Huang moved all in for 510,000 and Romero made the call in the cutoff.
Wei Huang:
James Romero:
On a board of , Huang paired his ace on the flop and cut Romero's stack by more than half.
Bruno Volkmann opened to 50,000 and Ryan Riess flatted with in the small blind. Sam Greenwood found in the big blind and raised to 600,000 leaving 85,000 behind. It got two quick folds and Greenwood took it down.