The second of three starting flights has completed level six and that means another 10-minute break has kicked off. Day 1b already attracted the largest field of 189 entries so far, of which some 163 players remain.
However, both of these numbers are subject to change as the late registration is open until the end of level ten and subsequent final break of the evening.
Jun Weng was spotted on his way to the rail when he could not withstand the steamrolling train of Jhon Hendri, who appears to be the current chip leader. Hendri's move with A♥K♠ paid off when he spiked top pair on the J♥6♥3♠9♣A♦ river while Weng's 10♦9♥ for a turned top pair was no good.
On the tail end of a heads-up pot between Pete Chen in the hijack and Laury Vanlerberghe in an early position, the board showed 7♣6♥2♠4♥5♦. Vanlerberghe had checked to Chen who bet 15,000. That covered his opponent by a small margin and Vanlerberghe eventually called it off.
Chen rolled over the Q♥10♥ for a missed flush draw and Vanlerberghe doubled with A♠3♠ for the bottom end of the straight.
Duc Thanh Nguyen has steadily built a profit in the last two hours at the tables and added even more chips in a multi-way pot.
He bet the flop and turn of a 10♦5♥2♠7♣ board with the latter being worth 9,000. The second bet was enough to win the pot without resistance.
Nguyen then raised to 1,400 and Jin Woo Kim called. Lewis Cowell three-bet to 6,000 out of the small blind and forced two folds with it.
On the tail end of a K♣J♦3♣9♠Xx board, Jennifer Cassell called a bet worth 7,900 and was shown a missed draw. She had that beat with the A♥J♥ to win the pot with a pair of jacks, reaching nearly three times the starting stack thereafter.
Some bigger stacks are starting to emerge and one of them belongs to China's WSOP bracelet winner Guoliang Wei. His flopped flush with the 6♣5♣ knocks out an opponent from South Korea, who had put the hopes on A♣3♠ following a K♣Q♣3♣ flop.
The 3♦ turn opened some further outs but the 8♠ river kept Wei's low flush ahead.
In a large pot of around 40,000 to the 9♠6♥5♣9♥6♦ river, Siarhei Chudapal wagered all his orange T-5,000 chips, which had the remaining stack of Romain Morvan covered. "Aces?" the Frenchman instantly asked with a smile on the face.
Morvan mulled it over for a long time and then folded. "Come on, show one time," he inquired and wanted to see the cards of Chudapal. His opponent joked back "of course, it was the first time I four-bet you," before dragging in the pot with a big smile on the face.
Lars Hougaard was all-in for a mere 9,000 before the flop and in dire shape when he revealed the A♣K♥. Evgenii Nekrasov had him crushed with the A♦A♠.
The 7♦5♥2♦ flop left the Dane on the ropes and his elimination was confirmed with the 7♥ turn, before Nekrasov even made aces full on the A♥ river.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
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