Japan's Kazuhiro Shirasawa has vaulted up into a spot among the leaders here in Level 8.
A massive set-over-set situation did the trick for Shirasawa and he's got close to 140,000 now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
138,500 |
Junyeob Song would have been on six digits already now if he had not lost 23,000 chips after a flop of 
to the player on his left, getting his 
cracked by the 
for a flopped straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
90,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
80,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
75,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
||
|
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
65,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
60,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
58,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
55,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
||
|
45,000
26,800
|
26,800 |
|
40,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
37,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
21,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
The players are now off on the final 10-minute break of the night. They will return to play two more one-hour levels before bagging up for the night.
Of the day's 260 entries, just 113 players now remain.
Now sitting on the same table as fellow PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin, Bryan Huang scored a big pot a minute prior to the break by winning a flip with 
against the 
of another player for effectively 45,000. It was a four-bet shove of the player at risk and the re-shove for isolation by Huang to get the third player out of the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
|
||
Johnjin Kim has been eliminated and his chips went to Alexander Bounsall. "Oh wow. How can I fold this?" Kim was still heard saying and had spiked a set of eights on the turn while Bounsall trapped him with a flopped set of queens. The board 
was just being rushed away and Bounsall busted another short-stack soon after with 
versus after flopping a jack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
105,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
Busted |
"What happened?" we inquired when walking past the table of Sam Razavi and noticing the large stack of the Brit. "Oh, it was a guy from Malaysia," Razavi said and pointed towards the empty seat in the middle of the table. Razavi had flat-called a raise to 2,000 with pocket fours to see a flop of 
, the Malaysian check-raised from 4,000 to 8,000 and got called.
On the 
turn, the opponent of the Brit check-raised all in and Razavi called off with the bottom set after having fired 14,900. Only aces and tens were to be feared as the Malaysian had 
for top two pair, yet the river bricked off.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
Norwegian Rolf Galasen has moved his stack up above six figures here in Level 7.
His big move came in hand with a ton of fireworks three handed on a 
flop. After an opening raise got called by one player, Galasen raised it up. The original raiser called before the original caller pushed all in.
Galasen followed suit for a lot more and the original raiser let it go.
Galasen had flopped the nut straight on 
and his opponent had decided to get frisky with . The 
turn and river gave him trips, but it wasn't enough.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
104,000 |
"Wow I am lucky," Dongkyu Kim said after he had gotten his stack of 35 big blinds in preflop in a raising war with the player next to him, out of the big blind with the . He faced the for his tournament life after being covered and completed a straight on the 
board.
Shortly after he shoved out of the small blind with 
and the remaining chips of the previous opponent vanished with 
on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
78,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
The player in one seat over from Johnjin Kim just almost tripled up to 40,000 chips while the former failed to score the pot with 
in a three-way all in. Another short-stack hit the rail with pocket queens while the second biggest stack in the hand won it all with the on a board of 
despite Kim's loud demand for a Ten.
One hand later, Sean Mcmahon opened to 1,600 and a short-stack moved all in for 6,600. Kim announced a raise from the cutoff before saying "I am all in". The Filipino counted his stack for 38,100 total and joked "tomorrow again" after Vivian Im woke up in the small blind with a curios look on the face. Ultimately Im, Thomas Ward in the big blind and Mcmahon mucked.
The short stack was at risk with 
but Kim's stayed ahead on a 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
36,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
30,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
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