Cards are back in the air. Is this the last level of the day? Most likely not. We'll see how things shape up as the bubble approaches, but it seems likely we'll at least start playing Level 15 tonight.
To the all in player, a win's a win, but we imagine that even Robert Bechara found this one a bit dirty. He reraised all in over the top of an open-shove from a short stack sitting on 23,900. Bechara's isolation move worked, leaving Bechara and his opponent alone going into the flop. Bechara showed against his opponent's pocket fives. The flop hit them both, , but Bechara went runner-runner to make a Broadway straight and knock out his opponent.
We imagine that, if Craig Marquis is reading, he just winced in shared pain with Bechara's opponent.
Brendan Edmonds has extended his chip lead after calling the all in shove of his opponent preflop. Edmonds held as his opponent was making a move with . The board filled out to jump Edmonds up to 372,000.
Meanwhile Antonio Fazzolari is also adding to his massive stack after the elimination of Chris Levick. They got it in on a ten-high flop with Levick's out-kicked by the of Fazzolari. The turn and river bricked out and Fazzolari is up to 335,000.
We had Petar Lackovic all but fitted with a toe tag after he was crippled to 4,500, but a series of double-ups have kept his tournament hopes alive. He shipped it in with against Jason Gray's . The flop was huge for Lackovic, coming to all but kill any chance Gray had of winning the hand. it was all over after the turn.
With that double, Lackovic is up to 55,000. He's not out of the woods yet. Gray is down to 190,000.
Robert Bechara was sitting with a short stack but after a double up and a bustout he's now back with his head above water with 67,000 chips.
In the first hand he won a race holding against an opponent's pocket nines when the board fell to give him a pair of tens and a double up.
The next hand a short-stacked player moved all in for his last 10,500 with and Bechara gambled with . The board was again favourable when it arrived to send his opponent to the exit.
Brendan Edmonds is nipping at the heels of Stewart Davidson for the title of Chip Leader. He called a raise to 6,200 made by David Lee after one other player called in front of him. On a flop of , Edmonds checked to Lee, who bet 18,000. That bet was called by the third player in the hand before Edmonds check-raised to 50,000. Nobody wanted to play for that much.
Edmonds is our second player to have more than 300,000 in chips.
The last of the Milinkovic clan, Kristine has been eliminated from the tournament.
Milinkovic was all in preflop for her last 30,000 with against an opponent holding however the board wasn't good to her as it fell giving her opponent trip aces, leaving Kristine to join Vera on the rail.