Level 3 has come and gone, which means it's time for another 15-minute break. When they return, the remaining players will play another level before taking the 75-minute dinner break. After that, they'll play two more levels on Day 1a.
Jonathan Little opened for 800 from the hijack only to have Michael Addamo three-bet to 2,750 from the small blind. Little made the call and then called a bet of 3,100 from Addamo on the flop.
When the appeared on the turn, Addamo checked but called when Little bet 5,300. Addamo checked for a second time on the river and Little kept the pressure on with a bet of 10,700. Addamo thought long and hard and eventually found a fold.
After a raise, Jack Salter and two further players called to see the flop of . The initial raiser made a continuation bet and Salter raised big to scare off the other two opponents. He then called the all in of the initial raiser for 15,600 chips with for a double gutshot and flush draw to face for top pair.
While the on the turn was no good, the on the river gave Salter a straight and he claimed yet another elimination. The opponent that had just busted asked if "he got it in good" and Salter nodded. "Yeah you did, I gambled."
"All in and a call Table 29," a dealer bellowed. We made our way over to discover Emanuel "Curly" Seal had gotten his stack all in holding the on a flop. Unfortunately for him, his opponent held the for a flopped flush.
Seal stood after the turn failed to help him, but then sat back down when the spiked on the river to give him a bigger flush.
Jonathan Karamalikis raised to 725 and called the 1,400 three-bet of Kyle Cheong on the button. Karamalikis then check-called 1,300 on a flop of and the on the turn was checked through. Karamalikis jammed the river for what looked like approximately 8,000 in chips and Cheong called.
The Australian revealed for top two pair and that was good enough, Cheong folded his cards and they already hit the muck to avoid being retrieved.
With around 12,000 in the pot and a board reading , Roland Israelashvili bet a modest 3,200 from middle position and action was on Xuan Liu. She thought for about 30 seconds before conceding the hand.
Not a game-changing hand by any means, but it gave us a good excuse to update you on both their counts.
After a preflop raising war, Patrick Donker had a short stack at risk for 9,525 chips and it was the classic coin flip with versus . While Donker could not connect with the flop, the on the turn saw him improve to a pair of aces. The on the river blanked and Donker is well above average right now.
Three players put in 2,000 preflop and saw a flop of . A player in middle position checked, Mike Leah did the same from late position, and Jackie Glazier bet 3,300 from the hijack. The middle-position player folded, Leah called and it was heads-up action to the turn.
Both players checked, the completed the board on the river, and Leah fired out 7,300. Glazier opted to pop it to 17,000, and it did the trick as Leah released his hand.