After Didier Guerin raised from early position to 5,000, Bobby Zhang reraised all in from the cutoff seat for 24,600. Play folded back to Guerin, and he gave it up after some thought.
On one of the first hands back from the dinner break, Chris Vlahos was eliminated in 26th place. Vlahos three-bet shoved all in out of the big blind with pocket tens for less than 40,000 in chips and initial raiser Ryan Hong called with pocket kings to score the elimination.
Vlahos took home AU$4,094 for his run and 25 players remain.
Jamie Pickering has been eliminated in 27th place. His couldn't come from behind against Luke Brabin's , and Pickering walked away with a payday of AU$4,094.
While Didier Guerin opened to 4,200 and then folded to the all in of Andrew Chang for 37,800, another showdown was about to happen on table 31. Ali Ghezelbash was the player at risk with and he needed an ace against the ]Kd] of Noah Novick. The board ran out and shortly after the clock was stopped for the redraw of the final three tables.