This match was particularly fierce, with Andrew Robl having the worst of it early on and dropping considerably, before picking it up later on and squeaking ahead in the chip counts at the last break. Now a surprisingly big hand snowballed into a match ender as Touko Takala raised a flop and it was all-in/call in a heartbeat as Takala's was far behind Robl's flop-smacking . The flush held over the turn and river and the field of Round Three dwindles yet again.
Jani Sointula falls to Phil Ivey straight away after the break - losing a couple of 4k blinds was nothing to be sneezed at at this stage - and the final hand was an all in preflop confrontation with button Sointula moving in with but Phil Ivey also picking up an Ace, but with a suited higher kicker: .
The board brought the eight-time bracelet winner an emphatic flush: to bust Sointula and head into the money and towards a possible ninth.
After his big double-up into the break Howard Lederer has quickly dispatched Shawn Buchanan after the break. Lederer made it 10,000 to go from the button and snap-called when Buchanan moved in. Showdown:
Lederer:
Buchanan:
The board ran .
Lederer will be back at 7pm to face teammate Huck Seed.
Half of each table is the leader, and half the short stack...
Howard Lederer (167,000) vs. Shawn Buchanan (73,000)
Phil Ivey (180,000) vs. Jani Sointula (60,000)
Neil Channing (146,000) vs. Chris Moorman (94,000)
Amit Makhija (128,000) vs. McLean Karr (112,000)
Andrew Robl (140,000) vs. Touko Takala (100,000)
Sondre Svanevik (125,000) vs. Daniel Steinberg (115,000)
Howard Lederer has doubled up to 167k in a hand that lasted five minutes into break. The flop read and Lederer led for 12,000 to face a raise to 30,000 from Shawn Buchanan. His response was to move all-in for his remaining 72,000. Call.
Lederer:
Buchanan: .
The board ran out to send Lederer off on break a happy man.
Chris Moorman's day has actually deteriorated since he found himself still in a taxi in Trafalgar Square come kickoff, and he was down to less than 40,000 when Neil Channing raised a big stack of T5,000 chips from the button. Moorman made a face, but eventually called all in.
Channing:
Moorman:
Board:
They duly chopped it up.
Moorman got it in again a few hands later, this time dominated with against Channing's . However, the poker gods smiled on him as one spade came on the flop, then a second on the turn and a third on the river made him a flush to double up to 75,000.
Still short, Chance Kornuth got his last in with . Daniel Negreanu found - tens again! - and this time they would hold up, despite Kornuth's optimistic, "Hopefully he'll deal from the bottom of the deck for me..."
Board:
Kornuth is thus out of the running for a second bracelet. Negreanu meanwhile is in the money, and in with a shot at a fifth bracelet.
A near-lethal hit for Chance Kornuth as Daniel Negreanu check called 6k on a flop, then after a double check on the turn bet 10,500 on the river. Kornuth made the call but Negreanu's was plenty good.
Back to the brink chipwise, and Chance Kornuth again had to survive a cards-on-their-backs preflop moment to stay in the game. He moved in pre with and had to suffer a little sweat as Negreanu talked about his requirements for calling while checking his hand one card at a time... "Oh... one is a ten... the other is... a ... call!"
Negreanu's wasn't to hold, however, as Kornuth hit a seven on the flop and a King on the turn to double over 40k and get a little bit of breathing room.
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flop and it was all-in/call in a heartbeat as Takala's 
was far behind Robl's flop-smacking 
. The flush held over the 
turn and river and the field of Round Three dwindles yet again.
but Phil Ivey also picking up an Ace, but with a suited higher kicker: 
to bust Sointula and head into the money and towards a possible ninth.
.
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to send Lederer off on break a happy man.
against Channing's 
. However, the poker gods smiled on him as one spade came on the flop, then a second on the turn and a third on the river made him a flush to double up to 75,000.
. Daniel Negreanu found 
- tens again! - and this time they would hold up, despite Kornuth's optimistic, "Hopefully he'll deal from the bottom of the deck for me..."
river. Kornuth made the call but Negreanu's 