A player in the hi-jack seat pushed his last 19,500 chips in the middle and found a caller in our chip leader Michal Polchlopek. The hi-jack player tabled and Polchlopek .
On the flop of , the at risk player was playing dodge the board, as Polchlopek had flopped both a flush and gutshot straight draw. Miraculously the board bricked out and the players at Polchlopek's table may now think the tides are changing for our chip leader.
Aleks Brkovic is enjoying his coverage from PokerNews today, and has commented on the fact that every time our field reporters pass his table, he always doubles. This time it was at the expense of Radoslaw Kopec.
Brkovic opened in mid position to 6,000 and found some resistance from Kopec on button. Kopec raised to 15,100 and Brkovic moved all-in for 90,800. Kopec didn't take long to make the call.
Brkovic:
Kopec:
The was in the window and the board ran out to give Brkovic another double.
The clock was paused with eight minutes remaining on the level and the players were sent on a break. The TD wanted to colour up some of the small denomination chips and do some rough counts so as to be more ready for the redraw when the bubble bursts.
The bubble burst on the first hand back from break.
Mark Maontague, who was crippled by Harry Demetriou a short while ago, moved all-in for his last 6,300 from the button. Both blinds called and checked the board all the way down.
Montague opened for a pair of nines but lost out to George Moussa who rivered a jack with .
That concludes play for today. A recap and full seat draw will be up shortly.
The remaining players have their tables set. The redraw was done on a sliding scale as a seeded redraw, based on chip counts. The seats have not been allocated yet, with players drawing for their seat at the commencement of play tomorrow.
Table 1: Melanie Weisner
Table 1: Joshua Foster
Table 1: Fabian Craib
Table 1: Radoslaw Kopec
Table 1: Oliver Speidel
Table 1: Trung Tran
Table 1: Sam Capra
Table 1: Peter Dykes
Table 2: Jamie Pickering
Table 2: Ross Parkhill
Table 2: Sandeep Pulusani
Table 2: Rhys Jones
Table 2: Aaron Lim
Table 2: Guang Lu
Table 2: Tom Rafferty
Table 2: Clemens Manzano
Table 3: Hans Dorn
Table 3: Michal Polchlopek
Table 3: Todd Bailey
Table 3: Harry Demetriou
Table 3: Bill Argyros
Table 3: James Obst
Table 3: Eugene Juczenko
Table 3: Veselin Zmukic
Table 4: Mark Betts
Table 4: Aleks Brkovic
Table 4: Sayed Jabbour
Table 4: Tsugunari Toma
Table 4: Eric Crain
Table 4: George Moussa
Table 4: Louis Srour
Table 4: Adam Cusinza
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and Polchlopek 
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, the at risk player was playing dodge the board, as Polchlopek had flopped both a flush and gutshot straight draw. Miraculously the board bricked out 
and the players at Polchlopek's table may now think the tides are changing for our chip leader.
and walked into an opponent holding pocket queens.
against his opponents 
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and Polchlopek's monster stack has taken a bit of a dent as he now moves down to 190,000 and change.
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