Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK Main Event where at 12:00 GMT, 18 players return to their seats at Dusk Till Dawn and will play for as long as it takes to reach the official six-handed final table.
Chi Zhang is the man to catch going into the penultimate day and he's the only player to start with more than 2 million chips. While he does have a sizeable chip lead, Zhang reaching the final table is far from a forgone conclusion because there are some very talented poker players among the 18 returnees.
The likes of Craig McCorkell, Iaron Lightbourne, Ben Vinson and Mitchel Johnson are all more than capable of walking away with the title, plus anyone who has progressed this far in such a prestigious event has got here on merit and would be a worthy a champion.
Here's how the final two tables line up:
Table
Seat
Player
Chips
25
1
Robert Davies
1,132,000
2
Breixo Gonzalez
632,000
3
Adam Daniel
329,000
4
Russell Betts
575,000
5
Philip Hepburn
971,000
6
Dominic Cullen
425,000
7
Iaron Lightbourne
771,000
8
Craig McCorkell
863,000
9
Lukas Dimsa
513,000
26
1
Ben Vinson
157,000
2
Fuad Serhan
351,000
3
Chi Zhang
2,023,000
4
Fraser Bellamy
896,000
5
Billy Chattaway
491,000
6
Andrew Hulme
492,000
7
Andrew Seden
1,061,000
8
Joseph Townsend
1,256,000
9
Mitchell Johnson
263,000
There are only a few minutes left of Level 21 before the blinds increase to 8,000/16,000/2,000a
Andrew Hulme is the first casualty of the day. Fans of Hulme can blame Billy Chattaway.
Chi Zhang opened the action with a bet of 35,000 from under the gun, Chattaway called from two seats away from Zhang, and Hulme moved all-in for 289,000. Joe Townsend looked to be considering call, but folded. Zhang also folded but Chattaway called.
Chattaway:
Hulme:
The five community cards ran and Hulme exited the tournament area.
Townsend said he had pocket nines and would have flopped a set.
Ben Vinson is the second player out of the door, again it is Billy Chattaway who plays the role of executioner.
Vinson open-shoved for 240,000 and Chattaway looked him up from the big blind. It was another big hand for Chattaway in to the of Vinson. The latter improved to a pair on the flop and stayed ahead on the turn. However, the river improved Chattaway to the best hand and resigned Vinson to a 17th place finish.
We said that Billy Chattaway can seemingly do no wrong and we look to be correct in that assumption judging by the following hand.
Fuad Serhan opened from the cutoff for 50,000. The action then folded to Billy Chattaway in the big blind, and he moved all-in; Serhan snap-called.
Serhan's speedy call was due to him holding , a far superior hand to the of Chattaway. However, a final board reading saw Chattaway hit running clubs to improve to an aces-crushing flush and Serhan fell in 14th place.
Breixo Gonzalez's third all-in bet in one orbit was called by Iaron Lightbourne in the cutoff.
Gonzalez revealed the and Lightbourne the dominating . Lightbourne went further in front with the arrival of the flop, although Gonzalez could hit running spades to stay in the tournament. The put paid to those ideas and when the rolled off of the river the tournament was left with only 12 players in the hunt for the £200,000 first place prize.
Joe Townsend is the 12th place finisher after busting from the main event only a few moments ago.
Townsend opened to 51,000 from the cutoff and called when Chi Zhang three-bet to 151,000 from the small blind. A flop was continued on by Zhang who bet 130,000. Townsend responded with an all-in bet of 700,000 and Zhang called without much pause for thought.
Zhang:
Townsend:
Zhang's top pair was ahead, but he needed to fade the flush draw to win the hand. The turn gave Townsend a few more outs to a straight, but they failed to arrive on the river, which sent Townsend to the rail.
A massive pot was just played for at the table next to us. It started with an all-in bet of 75,000 from Adam Daniel under the gun and a three-bet to 150,000 from a couple of seats across. Craig McCorkell then made it 286,000 to go from the small blind, only for Robert Davies to move all-in for 644,000. Hepburn folded, but McCorkell called and a huge pot was created.
McCorkell:
Davies:
Daniel:
Davies looked set to pull himself back into the game and was still ahead on the flop. McCorkell called for a six on the turn but it was the , which was followed into play by the , putting a straight on the board, chopping the side pot with McCorkell and Davies and leaving Daniel to win the main pot courtesy of his six.
Adam Daniel's roller coaster of a day is over, his tournament ending in 11th place.
The chips went into the middle in a blind-versus-blind confrontation with Robert Davies, Daniel holding and Davies .
Despite calls for a four from Daniel, the flop put Davies way in front and he'd already stood from his chair when the landed on the turn. The completed the board, sent Daniel to the sidelines and left only 10 players remaining in their quest to become a WPT champion.
Philip Hepburn is the 10th place finish after an all-in confrontation with Craig McCorkell didn't go as he would have wished.
McCorkell pushed all-in from the button to put the short stacked blinds under the cosh. Robert Davies folded in the small blind, but Hepburn called from the big blind.
Hepburn turned over and was flipping against McCorkell's . Thanks to McCorkell flopping a set, Hepburn was drawing dead by the turn of the board, leaving the final nine players to head to the unofficial final table.
and Hulme exited the tournament area.
to the 
of Vinson. The latter improved to a pair on the 
flop and stayed ahead on the 
turn. However, the 
river improved Chattaway to the best hand and resigned Vinson to a 17th place finish.
and Russell Betts made the call from the small blind with 
to put Mitchell at risk of elimination.
board, sending Johnson home in 15th place.
and Lightbourne the dominating 
flop, although Gonzalez could hit running spades to stay in the tournament. The 
rolled off of the river the tournament was left with only 12 players in the hunt for the £200,000 first place prize.
flop was continued on by Zhang who bet 130,000. Townsend responded with an all-in bet of 700,000 and Zhang called without much pause for thought.
flop. McCorkell called for a six on the turn but it was the 
and Davies 
flop put Davies way in front and he'd already stood from his chair when the 
and was flipping against McCorkell's 
board, leaving the final nine players to head to the unofficial final table.