Dongze Hao was all in preflop holding the vs the of Vladas Tamasauskas.
Hao was safe through the flop which came although he now had to fade a heart as well. The turn was a harmless but the river was not so harmless as the came off to pair up Tamasauskas and sent Hao packing.
Tanner Lefferts opened to 70,000 from early position and Thomas Pearn followed by moving all in for his last 375,000 chips. The action folded back around to Lefferts, who quickly tossed in the call.
Thomas Pearn:
Tanner Lefferts:
Pearn was looking for an ace, but the runout provided no help as Lefferts' pocket kings held to earn the elimination.
Mohamed Aissaoui raised to 60,000 from under the gun before Denas Pranaitis three bet to 150,000 from early position. Pedro Neves four bet all in for 1,020,000 from the hijack before Jon Kyte five bet all in for more from the cutoff.
Aissaoui and Pranaitis quickly moved out the way.
Pedro Neves:
Jon Kyte:
Neves and Kyte had been battling hard against each other all day but it was Neves who was way out in front in this huge pot. The flop came which kept Neves ahead. The turn was the which gave Kyte a flush draw. The river was the which gave Kyte the flush and eliminated his nemesis Neves in brutal fashion.
The board read on the river. Punnat Punsri bet 375,000 into a pot of roughly the same size from the hijack to put the decision on Colin Wu who was on the button.
Wu took a few moments before he elected to fold to send the pot over to Punsri.
The final numbers are in for the UKIPT Main Event at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London, as it becomes the biggest UKIPT London in history with 1,458 entries.
The event is now the second-biggest UKIPT Main Event overall, trailing only UKIPT Nottingham 2012 with 1,625 entries.
The UKIPT London field was represented by 62 different countries, and the event included 793 unique players with 665 reentries.
As expected, the United Kingdom (317 players dominated the player pool, with France (75 players), Romania (34 players), Italy (32 players) and Germany (28 players) rounding out the top five.
Spain and the United States were next on the list with 23 players each, followed by Israel (20 players), China (18 players), Ireland (18 players), Greece (16 players), Norway (15 players) and Canada (11 players) as the other nations to be represented by 10 or more.
Fabrice Bigot raised to 65,000 from middle position and was called by Adrian Cazacu on the button before Olivier Arnault three bet from the small blind to 225,000. Only Cazacu called.
The flop came and Arnault moved all in for 770,000. Cazacu went into the tank standing up before calling.
Olivier Arnault:
Adrian Cazacu:
Arnault had the overpair while Cazacu had the nut flush draw. The turn was the meaning that Arnault only needed to had a heart to survive. The river was a safe which ensured the double up for Arnault and left Cazacu with little.