Cheng-Wei Yin and Matas Cimbolas called a raise to 750 and then gave up the flop flop to a continuation bet.
Timothy Adams had the very same idea and raised to 750 the next hand, picking up two callers including Michiel Brummelhuis in the blinds. The flop came and again the initial raiser got through with a simple continuation bet.
On the three-way flop of , a Dutch regular known as Vladimir bet 1,700 and Pascal Vos as well as a third player call to see the on the turn. Vladimir's next bet was worth 3,600 and Vos called that before the short stack shoved for 12,000. Vladimir only flat-called with pocket aces and Vos folded, the all in player had the for a set.
The river was a blank and Vladimir was cut down by half throughout the hand.
Arriving on the turn, the player in the small blind led for what looked like 4,500 and Vlado Banicevic raised to 11,700 from middle position. His opponent wasted little time in moving all in with the superior stack and Banicevic eventually mucked to leave himself just below starting stack.
Shortly after the field returned from dinner, John Kabbaj entered the tournament area and looked around as if trying to make up his mind whether to play or not. Usually the Brit and two times WSOP bracelet winner primarily focused on cash games as mixed specialist, but may consider to jump into the action
Ilan Boujenah came, saw a straight flush and won a decent pot against a nut flush before disappearing again. Why? Because the one hour dinner break just kicked in moments ago.
In the last hand of the level, Ari Engel was involved into a heads-up pot to the river and bet 4,800 for around two third of the pot. His opponent glanced over a couple of times and eventually made the call by tossing in a single T-10,000 chip. Once Engel had flipped over the for queens and deuces, the opponent mucked and headed into the break.
After an excellent start, the stack of Jorryt van Hoof quickly dwindled below 25,000 again and the downfall continued further. A massage was the last resort to find some run-good again, but the seat of the Dutchman has since been vacated.
According to other players on the table, he got his last 4,000 chips in with and failed to get there against pocket jacks.