From middle position, Francesco De Vivo raised to 5,500 from middle position. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst called from the hijack seat and the flop came down . Both players checked and the turn brought the . De Vivo bet 6,500 and Selbst called.
The river was the and De Vivo checked. Selbst bet 6,000 and De Vivo check-raised to 16,000. Selbst snapped.
Action folded to Australian Daniel Neilson in the hijack seat and he raised to 5,100. Marius Maciukas reraised to 11,800 from the button and play folded back to Neilson. He reraised to put Maciukas all in. Maciukas quickly folded and Neilson won the pot.
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Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden was in the tank facing a bet from Daniel Neilson on the river. The board read and Lodden had checked before Neilson bet 22,000. After a minute or so, Lodden folded and Neilson won the pot.
Action folded to Koen De Visscher in the cutoff seat and he raised all in for around 35,000. Kirill Stasinlavovich Telezhkin called from the big blind and the cards were tabled.
Word on the street is we'll play two more levels tonight before calling for the bags. We should be closing in on the money bubble by that point.
And the crowd goes wild...
...Not really. But at least it will make for some drastically short days for the remainder of the week. We still have three full days to shrink the field to the final table.