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Nicholas Heather bumped it up to 158,000 in the cutoff and Baker raised the stakes with a three-bet to 400,000 on the button. Not to be outdone, Heather went all in for 950,000 more. Baker didn't make the call, giving Heather a big bump.
Heather now has 1,900,000 and his sharing the lead with Matt Vance. Baker is down to 1,700,000
With two eliminations in the first hour, things were off to a really fast start. However action has slowed a bit over the last few orbits, possibly because there are no players sitting with extremely short stacks. Daniel Thomas is currently in the basement with about 602,000.
Players are on a ten-minute break.
Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 5,000
Daniel Thomas got post-break play off to a start by moving all in from the small blind. He got no takers, but added 70,000 to his stack.
Nicholas Heather raised to 84,000 from the cutoff and got no takers. Steals at this level aren't insignificant, though. Heather was awarded 90,000 for taking it down preflop.
Nicholas Heather wasn't able to build momentum off his last steal. He tried to take the blinds and antes once more with a middle-position raise to 85,000, but tanked and folded when Daniel Thomas moved all in for 370,000 more. Thomas is now at over a half-million while Kyung Han has found himself in last place.
For the second hand in a row Kyung Han put all his chips in the middle. This time it came as re-raise in the big blind after David Baker raised to 90,000 from the small blind. It was 390,000 more for Baker to make the call. He tanked for some time, counting and arranging his chips before finally making the call.
Baker: 
Han: 
Baker pulled ahead when the flop came 
. Han was unable to find any outs when the turn came 
and the river fell 
.
Baker collected close to a half-million in chips in addition to knocking Han out of the tournament.
Matt Vance made it 85,000 to go from middle position. Nicholas Heather called from the cutoff, as did Stephen Gee from the big blind.
The flop of 
failed to induce action as all three players checked. They followed suit with the 
on the turn. When the came on the river, Nick bet 260,000 and collected the pot when Vance and Gee folded.
Daniel Thomas made a raise to 90,000 from the button position and Jeff Gross called from the big blind. Gross checked before the flop hit the felt. When it finally arrived, we saw a flop of 
. Thomas went all in for 415,000 after Gross' check in the dark.
Gross thought about it for a while, saying "I got a really good hand bro, I think I gotta do it. Show if I fold?" Thomas told Gross he wouldn't show, and we didn't get to see either as Gross threw away his cards.
