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Artur Wasek opened for 225,000 but John Juanda made it 500,000 from the button. Wasek eyed him up. before flat-calling.
Wasek continued to eye up Juanda with some suspicion as they checked down the 
board. At the end of it, Juanda turned over pocket jacks, and Wasek could only boast pocket nines. He roleld his eyes towards the ceiling, and is now very short - perhaps 800,000.
Tom Marchese pushed all-in from the button for about 1.3 million and Per Ummer made the call in the big blind for most of his stack.
The first all-in showdown of the final table!
Marchese: 
Ummer: 
The flop came 
and Marchese made a pair but Ummer could now take the lead with any paint card. The 
came on the turn and Ummer's outs increased further, any king, queen, jack or diamond would eliminate Marchese from the tournament.
The river was the 
and Marchese made sixes full of tens to secure a vital double up to about 2.6 million. Ummer was crippled to just around 350,000 but managed to get two pushes through to recover to almost double that stack.
Artur Wasek went all in but didn't get a call. He shook his head as he picked up the blinds and antes, possibly still thinking about how he played those pocket nines against John Juanda's pocket jacks (his favourite hand!) a little while back.
Next hand Kayvan Payman got his whole stack in the middle, but no-one called and he pulled his chips back with a little puff of relief.
John Juanda has been using his big stack status to bully the short stacks. He just now raised to 185,000 from the button and everyone folded; then the next hand he made it 160,000 from the cutoff and everyone folded again, including big blind Fernando Brito who has around 700,000 or so.
Kayvan Payman shoved for the second time today, but no-one was interested enough to make the call.
Payman moved on up to over 1.4 million.
Per Ummer pushed all-in from the small blind and Artur Wasek snap-called from the big blind, Ummer did not seem too happy.
Ummer: 
Wasek: 
The board came a completely underwhelming (certainly for Ummer) 
. Ummer with his shiny silver hair that makes him look like a Bond villain is the 8th place finisher here today, everyone else is guaranteed six figures in pounds now.
John Juanda opened for 165,000 and David Vamplew flat-called - the first call of a Juanda raise we've seen since that curious jacks-versus-nines encounter with Artur Wasek.
They saw a 
flop and Juanda bet out 270,000. Vamplew called, and they saw the turn.
The turn was the 
and this time Juanda bet out 560,000. A bit of a tank from Vamplew this time, but again, he flat-called.
The pot was getting big by now, and when the river came down an irrelevant-looking Juanda bet out 1.25 million, giving Vamplew a look reminiscent of the internet's famous dramatic lemur. But Vamplew snap-called this time, and then was crestfallen when he found that his turned top pair with 
was no good against Juanda's flop set with 
.
Juanda picked up the 4.645 million pot, and lurched back into the chip lead. Vamplew dropped right down to around 1.7 million.
And with that, players are now on a break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,270,000
3,195,000
|
3,195,000 |
|
||
|
7,235,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
2,400,000
-200,000
|
-200,000 |
|
||
|
1,840,000
1,040,000
|
1,040,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,775,000
-1,895,000
|
-1,895,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,125,000
-325,000
|
-325,000 |
|
610,000
-490,000
|
-490,000 |
Level: 29
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 10,000
