William Picard was all in with a short stack and got called by two opponents including David Kahan in the big blind. The board came and Picard flashed . Kahan had and the third player in the hand could only reveal .
Lucy Gamble raised from the cutoff and Daniel Burrow called from one seat over to head to a flop of . Burrow got the remainder of his stack worth 83,000 in with for top pair and the flush draw, but was trailing Gamble's . The on the turn changed nothing much, but Burrow doubled thanks to the on the river.
At the end of this level is just a regular break of 25 minutes and the dinner break will kick in after the next set of two levels. With 79 players left, the average has climbed to 358,000, which still is a whoppin 44 big blinds.
Ludovic Geilich bombed through a board of and shoved the river against Yuriy Boyko. The latter tanked and called the clock on himself, then folded. The table broke right after and both parted ways. Shantanu Banerji is no big stack anymore either and moved over to table one, where an all in showdown just took place.
Paul Skipper opened to 22,000 and Miguel Angel Martin shoved for 96,000. Skipper eventually called with the and the Spaniard had . The board fell and Martin doubled.
Down to less than 90 players, the tournament has switched to eight-handed tables and there are just 11 of them left in the main tournament area. At the end of this level will be a 75-minute dinner break before another four levels of one hour each are scheduled.
Yuriy Boyko opened to 18,000 and Ludovic Geilich called in the cutoff, as did Sally Stephens in the small blind. James Akenhead then moved all in for what looked like 180,000 from the big blind and that forced Boyko out of the pot. Geilich however didn't go anywhere and called, which then also resulted in the fold of Stephens.
James Akenhead:
Ludovic Geilich:
After a board of , Akenhead was eliminated and Geilich recovered previous losses to bump his stack up to a million.
Day 1a chip leader Mihaita Croitoru continues to rise after just having eliminated Andrey Veselov. Croitoru's raise was met by a three-bet shove of Veselov for 205,000 and the Romanian called.