Uros Brkic already took a lot of chips from Joachim Chia and he just knocked out Andrew Roberts in a battle of the blinds. It was a flip with the for Brkic in the small blind and the for Roberts one seat over.
The flop was already quite scary and Roberts tapped the table when the appeared on the turn. Only a deuce could save Roberts but the river sent him to the rail just shy of the money.
The past 10 minutes we have seen at least six raises, all in moves and tank-folds. Yes, we are getting really close to the money. There are 58 players left and 54 will get cash and a flag on the Hendon Mob.
Dan Heimiller had a short stack at risk with against and his outs increased dramatically with the flop. Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Heimiller lost another 9,900 on top of his raise.
It was an all in preflop by Giacomo Fundaro out of the big blind against the raise of Daniel Murphy and the Italian had about 12,000 or so chips left. Murphy called with and was delighted to see on the other side of the table.
The flop was even more exciting as Fundaro could not win the pot outright anymore. The on the turn provided some chop odds but the river was a brick.
The chips went in preflop between Gary Benson with and an opponent with . Benson was at risk for 9,150 but the chips weould have gone in either way on the flop. The on the turn guaranteed the double up for Benson and a meaningless river completed the board.
A short-stacked player moved all in for approximately 8,000 in chips from early position and Antonio Esfandiari made the call on the button. The players behind him folded and the short stack already stood up while revealing .
Esfandiari was ahead with the but the flop changed the situation entirely. The on the turn now gave Esfandiari a gutshot and sure enough the river provided just that to see the better hand preflop hold up.
While the stack of Dan Heimiller is difficult to count due to not being stacked in 20s, Piyush Gupta one seat over has built a little pyramid and it is much easier to get an up-to-date information on his count. The two bigger stacks just clashed in a pot that saw approximately 16,000 in the middle until the river.
Heimiller bet 5,000 and Gupta raised to 14,500. The 2014 WSOP bracelet winner took more than a minute to make up his mind and eventually folded.