Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Tom Grigg has been eliminated from the tournament in unknown action. Likewise, both Saehoon Lee and Paul Newey have been among the recently fallen.
With another table breaking, the tournament is now down to 10 tables.
From here on play will be eight-handed, meaning that when the 10 nine-handed tables lose a player that seat will be removed. This will need to happen on all tables before the next table will break.
After Liang Shi opened for 1,700, 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year Ben Lamb three-bet to 6,000 from the hijack. Not to be outdone, Shi four-bet to 16,700 and Lamb hit the tank. He began to break down his chips with the wheels in his head apparently turning. Eventually he tossed in a big five-bet and Shi called off for 69,200 total.
Lamb:
Shi:
Shi was ahead with kings and looking to avoid any tomfoolery. The flop gave Lamb a pair of queens, but that'd be all the help he would get as the blanked on the turn followed by the on the river.
We missed the action, but we do know that John O'Shea was just eliminated from the tournament. He got his chips all in preflop holding and was racing against an opponent's . O'Shea got it in good, but the board ran out to give his opponent a winning pair of kings.
Meanwhile, Jeff James has also been eliminated from the tournament.
Catching the action on a flop, John Apostolidis bet out 4,000 from the small blind and the big blind made the call before the pre flop raiser in Devan Tang raised to 11,000. Apostolidis folded, but the big blind came along as the dealer delivered the on the turn and both players checked.
When the river landed the the big blind led for 31,700, and after several minutes of deliberation, Tang made the call only to fold at the sight of his opponent's .
Earlier in the day, 2006 Aussie Millions champ Lee Nelson was down to just 5,000 in chips. He played patiently and managed to work that up to 50,000, but all that hard work just came crashing down.
It happened on a board with around 10,000 in the pot. Jan Bendik had checked from the small blind and Nelson bet 5,200 from the big. Bendik woke up with a check-raise to 11,500, and that prompted Nelson to move all in for roughly 40,000. Bendik made the call and tabled the for top two pair, and a disheartened Nelson revealed the for an inferior two pair.
The river failed to help Nelson and he was sent back to New Zealand. For more on Nelson, check out the interview he did with PokerNews last year.