After the final three hands for the night had been drawn, Stephen Chidwick jammed his last 325,000 from an early position. Gab Yong Kim in the small blind moved all-in over the top and Hyunsup Kim forfeited his big blind.
Stephen Chidwick: Q♣9♣
Gab Yong Kim: A♠K♦
The 10♠7♥2♦ flop kept Chidwick's hopes alive but he was drawing dead on the A♣ turn to make the 8♦ river a formality.
Chris Brewer got his last ten big blinds in via open-shove with the A♥9♣ and found himself dominated by the A♦Q♠ of Teun Mulder. There was some possibility of a split pot after the 10♥4♦2♠2♦ turn but the kicker played after the J♣ river.
Mulder then tangled in a smaller pot with Felipe Ketzer, the latter of which had open raised.
They checked the A♥7♠6♠ flop, Ketzer bet the K♥ turn for 165,000 and Mulder called. Both checked the K♦ river and Ketzer's A♣9♦ won the pot.
Santhosh Suvarna raised to 60,000 from the hijack and Felipe Ketzer made the call from the button. The short-stacked Tamas Adamszki then committed his last 180,000 chips from the small blind, and both of his opponents made the call.
Suvarna and Ketzer then checked through the 3♣9♥Q♥ flop, before Suvarna made a 135,000 bet on the 9♣ turn. Ketzer quickly folded and a showdown was ordered.
Tamas Adamszki: A♣10♠
Santhosh Suvarna: 10♦9♦.
Adamszki was already drawing dead against Suvarna's trips, and he took his exit as the meaningless 2♣ river completed the board
Fahredin Mustafov raised to 175,000 and left 15,000 behind. Daniel Dvoress called on the button but then got out of the way when Santhosh Suvarna three-bet big and Mustafov called all-in.
Fahredin Mustafov: K♠10♥
Santhosh Suvarna: A♦10♦
Mustafov was drawing dead on the 6♠2♠2♥A♥ turn to make the J♠ river a formality.
One more all-in showdown was taking place before the end of the level on another table.
Chris Brewer had defended the big blind and check-raised the Q♥6♣3♥ flop, bet the A♥ turn and jammed the Q♠ river against Ren Lin. The pot by then was some 935,000 and Lin used three time bank extensions before making the call.
Brewer showed 7♠5♥ for a missed gutshot and Lin doubled for 696,000 with Q♣J♠ for trips queens.
As they prepared the chip race before heading into the break, Lin declared "you bluff too much" and Brewer replied with a dry "you call too much".
Francisco Benitez raised to 50,000 and then faced the three-bet shove by Timothy Adams for around 320,000. No exact count was asked upon as Benitez came along a few seconds later.
Timothy Adams: Q♥Q♠
Francisco Benitez: 8♥8♣
Adams was in prime shape to get back into contention but that all changed on the A♦10♦8♠ flop, as Benitez hit a set of eights. No queen or running cards followed on the 6♣ turn and K♣ river as Adams departed in the penultimate level of the night.
Quan Zhou had raised to 35,000 and Ben Heath then jammed the button for what appeared to be 415,000. Fahredin Mustafov went all-in over the top from the big blind and Zhou eventually called all-in.
Ben Heath: K♠J♠
Quan Zhou: J♣J♥
Fahredin Mustafov: A♠K♥
The pocket pair held on a board of 9♠7♦6♣10♦5♣ and Heath was eliminated, while Zhou doubled through Mustafov for 690,000. Having secured the pot, Zhou vaulted out of his chair and banged on the table in celebration.
Orpen Kisacikoglu squeezed to 160,000 over an initial raise to 27,000 and two callers. That forced out Adrian Mateos but Daniel Dvoress then pushed all-in. Leonard Maue folded and it was back on Kisacikoglu, who had no time banks remaining.
Eventually, the defending champion shrugged and called it off.
Orpen Kisacikoglu: A♦J♦
Daniel Dvoress: Q♥Q♠
The 8♣8♠8♥ flop gave Kisacikoglu one more out to stay alive but the 3♦ turn and 2♣ river bricked off.
Kisacikoglu quickly counted his stack, to which the dealer responded "he has more".
Kisacikoglu was aware of that and just tried to figure out how much he was all-in for before departing the tournament area. The stack size preflop was seemingly just shy of 700,000.
In a single-raised three-way pot to the Q♣7♣6♥9♥ turn, Nacho Barbero in the small blind and Teun Mulder in the big blind checked. Ioannis Angelou-Konstas bet 51,000 in the hijack and Barbero then check-raised to 225,000.
Mulder squeezed it up to 385,000 and that forced out Angelou-Konstas.
Barbero was visibly upset but eventually piled in his shorter stack.
"Straight," Mulder declared as he flipped over the 8♠5♣. Barbero needed a heart with the A♥2♥ but bricked the K♣ river to hit the rail.
In the meanwhile, Santhosh Suvarna re-entered as the field reached 17 players out of 19 entries.
Santhosh Suvarna checked the heads-up turn of Q♥J♣8♠4♦ and then faced a bet worth 75,000 by Leonard Maue. What followed was the shove by Suvarna for around 240,000 and Maue instantly called.
Santhosh Suvarna: K♦10♠
Leonard Maue: 4♥4♣
The turned set of fours left Suvarna on the ropes as he needed an ace or nine to survive. Neither came with the 7♠ river and that sent Suvarna to the rail.