From the cutoff seat, Chance Kornuth opened to 62,000, and Kyle Bowker three-bet to 150,000 from the button. When it came back to Kornuth, he took his pause to consider his options. The decision was made; Kornuth announced an all-in four-bet for about 1.8 million, and Bowker instantly called with the covering stack (after doubling through Kornuth once already).
Showdown
Bowker:
Kornuth: (gulp!)
There was no sweat at all as the board ran friendly for Bowker: . With that, our start-of-day chip leader has become the 18th place finisher at EPT London. He'll take home the £21,000 prize, though that looks as if it's little consolation for the man who was the monster stack for nearly a full day.
On the flip side, Kyle Bowker now holds a commanding lead with about 4.4 million chips stacked in front of him.
Fernando Brito has had a great last few minutes, first getting his last 349,000 in with from the big blind against Matt Perrins' button raise with . The board coming a slightly scary to double him up.
Soon after, Brito was betting 140,000 on the river of a board and David Vamplew moved all-in. Brito snap-called with for a boat while Vamplew was forced to expose for nothing at all.
Brito up to 1.3 million, Vamplew down to 1.5 million.
John Hall made an opening raise and it folded all the way around to Tom Marchese in the big blind, who reraised to cover him. Hall called all in, and they were on their backs.
Things were not looking good for Mr. Hall.
Hall:
Marchese:
The poker gods, however, decided to bless Mr. Hall with their kindness.
Board: bink!
Hall doubled to stay in the game on 1.2 million. Marchese is now at below 2 million.
Robert Nulli opened for 67,000 in the cutoff only for Kayvan Payman to make it 185,000 from the big blind. After a while, Nulli called and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Payman checked and Nulli tried a 165,000 bet - but Payman now went all in, enough to cover Nulli. Nulli gave at least the impression of seriously considering it, but in the end he folded, leaving himself 830,000. Payman's stack saw a nice upwards motion to the environs of 1.7 million, and play continued.
Chance Kornuth opened preflop to 68,000 and Kyle Bowker made it 150,000 in the seat next to him. Kornuth then made it 338,000 in a 4-bet that made Bowker look briefly uncomfortable, but the latter then moved all-in.
"Count please," said Kornuth instantly.
It was 849,000 more which represented about a third of Kornuth's remaining chips but he made the call.
Bowker:
Kornuth:
It looked as though Kornuth's gamble had paid off when the flop came but the on the turn put Bowker back into the lead, where he stayed on the river. Kornuth dropped to about 1.5 million and Bowker is up to 2.4 million.
An interesting hand just developed on table 3 involving John Juanda and Rumit Somaiya.
Somaiya opened under the gun for 78,000 - shades on! John Juanda called in the big blind.
The dealer delivered a flop of and it was over to Juanda who tapped the felt indicating a check. Somaiya made it 110,000 and after a moments thought Juanda made the check-raise, making it 235,000 to go.
Shades off! Somaiya plonked them onto his forehead before asking "how much do you have behind?"
Juanda made the count and declared 1.3 million.
Shades On! "I call" said Somaiya.
Turn:
Juanda started to move his chip stacks about, all the time look at Somaiya for a reaction before eventually making a bet of 400,000. He got one - Somaiya took a long sip of his drink before saying "I suppose you want me to fold right?"
Somaiya then folded and Juanda added a further 375,000 to his chip stack.
Fernando Brito, one of our very shortest stacks, opened for 65,000 under the gun, leaving himself around 400,000 back. Kayvan Payman reraised to 150,000 in the hijack, but back around to Brito and following a period in the tank, he went all in.
Payman declined to make the call, and Brito's stack is looking a little healthier now at around 650,000.
We're still working on getting caught up with our posts here, so bear with us. The good news is we're on a 15-minute break to sort some of this out. We'll be back with more action shortly.
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(gulp!)
. With that, our start-of-day chip leader has become the 18th place finisher at EPT London. He'll take home the £21,000 prize, though that looks as if it's little consolation for the man who was the monster stack for nearly a full day.
from the big blind against Matt Perrins' button raise with 
to double him up.
board and David Vamplew moved all-in. Brito snap-called with 
