Paul Newey shoved his last 27,000 in preflop with but ran into Dan Colman's dominating . The brought a few giggles but Colman won the pot after the turn and river.
On a flop of Dominik Nitsche continued for 7,000 and got a call from Niall Farrell.
They both checked the turn and got to a river . Nitsche bet 20,000 and Farrell took a couple of minutes before he raised to 50,000. Nitsche tried to puzzle it out and eventually made the call.
Nitsche threw his cards away in annoyance when he saw Farrell had rivered a set with .
“I was repping the fours.” Farrell joked as Nitsche said he couldn’t see what else he had there. “I’m good at matching my cards”
Joel Nordkvist opened the action from the button for 4,500 and Simon Higgins raised to 12,000. Nordkvist came back with a raise to 28,000 and Higgins responded with a further raise to 60,000.
Nordkvist made the call and they went to a flop of . The two players checked and the turn card was the . Higgins went for a bet of 41,000 and Nordkvist moved all in. It would cost Higgins the rest of his chips to call. He threw down his in annoyance asking Nordkvist why he didn’t just get it all in preflop.
We saw Stephen Chidwick heading for the exit door and as we returned to his table Niall Farrell had a ton of chips in front of him and asked if he was the executioner. Indeed he was and he kindly relayed the action to us.
Farrell opened from early position with and Chidwick three-bet. Farrell called to see the flop come . A check from Farrell saw Chidwick bet 14,000, Farrell raise to 42,000 and Chidwick shove for 150,000. Farrell called it off and hit a on the turn to give him the straight.
With entry closed the floop announced there were 173 entries including 46 re-entries. The winner will receive £394,200 with 23 places getting paid. A full breakdown will follow shortly.
Five more players have been eliminated including WCOOP Main Event winner Fedor Holz and Sorel Mizzi. Also eliminated was Aghsin Rasulov, who was all in a three-way pot with and eventually fell to Dan Colman's on a board.