Theo Jorgensen has broken the 200,000 mark over on table 17 and looks to be the among the chip leaders. The Dane won a bracelet at the WSOPE in the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha and has consistently hit final tables over the last few years.
Topping the counts in level Eight is Kevin Eyster after a huge hand busted his neighbour Jonathan Layani, whom he only just had covered. Drawn by commotion, I only saw the board: and the winning hand - .
And no wonder, making the seven-high straight vs. Guillaume Dacourt's set of Fours on a board! Dacourt was the one moving in on the river, and Roland Israelashvili made the not-instant-but-close call showing the straight at the same time as Dacourt showed his losing set. He's up to 75k now and Dacourt down to 40k.
Almira Skripchenko has doubled up through Guillaume Darcourt after her won a rollercoaster flip against . The flop came Ace high with two diamonds putting her massively in the lead but the turn suddenly made everything look terrible when the reared it's ugly head.
The river was another diamond however and Skripchenko is up to about 70,00
Eetu Halonen, the aggressive young Finn who's been wielding a good sized stack for most of the tournament, is now on the rail after a dramatic hand against Antoine Amourette. Starting out threeway in a raised pot to the flop, Amourette was the bettor to the tune of 11,500. Halonen check-called this bet and they were heads up for the turn: .
Now Halonen bet out 23,400 and a couple of minutes in the tank passed before Amourette made the call. The pot was now already very large as the river hit, and Halonen counted out 40k but eventually just announced, "All in," for his full 67k stack.
Another think for Amourette (who had him covered, but not by a huge amount). Finally he called, showing for tptk, which beat Halonen's and gave Amourette a 270k stack!
Andrew Feldman just got crippled after he doubled up Matthew Hopkins. All the chips went in preflop as they would do when Feldman was holding and Hopkins showing .
No luck for Feldman though, the board came and he was crippled as a result.
It's been a bad level for Guillaume Dacourt, after doubling up his neighbour he's been on under 40k for a while and recently dropped to a Danger Zone stack level. The unreadable Alex Kravchenko was the winner of the hand, which played out like this from the flop:
Kravchenko checked the flop and Dacourt bet 4k. Kravchenko called - and again when Dacourt bet 8k on the turn (although it took him a bit longer). The river brought the . Another deliberate check from Kravchenko, but Dacourt gave up - and I mean completely - he threw his hand into the muck rather than check behind.
Kravchenko flipped the monstrous which surprised everyone round the table, not least Dacourt.
Holding , Matthew Hopkins saw a flop of along with Laurent Polito. Lucky for him Polito held and was happy to put his shorter-stacked opponent to the test - when he saw what he was up against he appeared frustrated and the board bricked leaving him grumbling and handing over the majority of his stack. Hopkins around the century mark.
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and the winning hand - 
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flop, Amourette was the bettor to the tune of 11,500. Halonen check-called this bet and they were heads up for the turn: 
hit, and Halonen counted out 40k but eventually just announced, "All in," for his full 67k stack.
for tptk, which beat Halonen's 
and gave Amourette a 270k stack!
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and he was crippled as a result.
flop and Dacourt bet 4k. Kravchenko called - and again when Dacourt bet 8k on the 
which surprised everyone round the table, not least Dacourt.
flop, the cutoff then fired out 6,600 on the