On a table that previously featured Oliver Price, Ben Lai was the initial raiser and a three-bet pot emerged with Shashank Rathi in the small blind and Morten Mortensen in the big blind coming along.
The flop of saw the action check to Lai and he continued for 16,000, which only Rathi called. The Indian then also checked the turn and now Lai made it 30,000 to go. This proved to be too much for Rathi and he folded.
Dejan Boskovic Jr opened the action from middle position with a raise to 4,500 and Hiroshi Nishiyama moved the last of his chips in from the cutoff for a shove of 42,000 in total.
Big Blind Dario Sammertino ran the shot clock down to 10-seconds before reshoving for 47200. Boskovic looked sorely tempted to take the chance to eliminate two players but decided against it, grimacing and folding and the cards are turned over.
Hiroshi Nishiyama:
Dario Sammartino:
Nishiyama was the at risk player with a dominated hand and found no help when the board ran out meaning Sammartino’s kicker played and we lose another.
The day had started well for Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, as the PokerStars Team Pro quickly built his stack. But all of that has vanished just now in a big pot against Adrian Attenborough.
Grospellier was the initial raiser and made it 4,000 to go only to see Attenborough three-bet to 15,000 out of the blinds. Grospellier called and the flop fell . Attenborough checked, Grospellier bet 12,200 and the Aussie called.
Pretty much the same then happened on the turn, when Attenborough check-called a bet worth 16,600 and then checked again the river. Grospellier shoved for around 45,000 and Attenborough snap-called, tabling the for top pair on the flop and the back-doored nut flush.
Grospellier tossed his now worthless for two pair into the muck and quickly left the tournament area.
Pakinai Lisawad opened the action with a raise to 5,000 from middle position with both Sergey Levedev and Soichiro Kojiya making the call from the cutoff and button respectively before Quan Zhou squeezed to 19,000 from the small blind.
While this got Lisawad and Kojiya to bow out Lebedev was going nowhere and made the call to take play heads-up to the flop.
Zhou thought it over before leading out for 17,000 and LEbadev called once again and the dealer peeled off the turn.
Zhou slowed right down and checked over to Lebedev, who decided to put him to the test and moved all-in. Zhou did not take long to throw his hand away and he is now looking a little short while Lebedev looked to have a little over 200,000.
It took Daniel Dvoress some two minutes to re-arrange his stack after having just sent Steve O'Dwyer to the rail in a big raising war that saw the Irishman all in and at risk preflop. Dvoress raised to 5,000 from under the gun and O'Dwyer three-bet to 14,500 before Dvoress clicked it back with a small reraise.
O'Dwyer moved all in via five-bet jam and Dvoress couldn't have called any faster, which was a very bad sign for the HK$400,000 Super High Roller champ.
Steve O'Dwyer:
Daniel Dvoress:
The flop left O'Dwyer in even more desperate shape, while the turn provided a glimpse of hope with the straight draw. A blank river avoided the miracle and O'Dwyer joined the early casualties, that also include Calvin Lee, Atanas Kavrakov and 2010 Aussie Millions champion Tyron Krost.
Matthew Moss started the day with one of the bigger stacks, but that has been reduce to all but 20 big blinds as the Brit just took yet another hit in a battle of the blinds against Dianlei Zhang. The stacks of both went in preflop and it was Zhang at risk in a coinflip.
Dianlei Zhang:
Matthew Moss:
The board came and Moss had to forfeit another 69,900 while Zhang moved back above the average.
We caught the action on the flop with over 12,000 already in the pot and the board reading in a pot between Taiwan’s James Chen and Australia’s Martin Kozlov.
The action is checked around to the turn and first to act Kozlov now fired for 7,200. Chen gave him an evaluating look and slid in the call to bring play to the river.
Kozlov bet out again, pushing 21,000 into the middle of the table and after a few seconds deliberation Chen made the call. The Aussie turned over but this was not enough to beat Chen, who had made a great call with just for ace-high and he raked in the pot.
Yu Liang was one of three casualties of local players in quick succession. Down to his last 2,700, Liang shoved from the hijack and Dejan Boskovic Jr reraised to 6,500 on the button. This was enough to get everyone else out of the way and the cards were turned over.
Yu Liang:
Dejan Boskovic Jr:
Liang spiked an ace, but the case jack also appeared on the flop. On the turn, Liang picked up some chop outs, but the river was a blank and Liang joined the rail.
While not everyone speaks Spanish, the poker cards speak for themselves as Sergio Aido took to Twitter to confirm his elimination.
Primero me doblé 88 > AQo y luego pelado AQo < AKo. Era bolonazo! 500k$ arriba. A seguir ...
— Sergio Aido (@petgaming)
Aido first doubled his short stack with pocket eights against ace-queen, then ran with ace-queen into ace-king.
Shashank Rathi and Matthew Moss followed while Quan Zhou got through with a three-bet shove for his last 49,000 against Sergey Lebedev.
Moss open-shoved for 30,600 with the and Manig Loeser flat-called from two seats over with the . The board ran out ten-high and that was it for Moss.
Mikita Badziakouski was more fortunate. After a Neel Murthy open to 5,500 on the button, Dario Sammartino three-bet to 17,000 in the small blind. Badziakouski four-bet shoved for 28,200 and Murthy folded, Sammartino called and the cards were turned over.
Mikita Badziakouski:
Dario Sammartino:
The board came and the Belorussian more than doubled.