When the flop came Danny Huynh was excited to get all of his chips in the middle holding . However he wasn't so thrilled when his opponent flipped over for top set.
The on the turn didn't change things and Huynh was left drawing to a club. Fortunately for him, the river brings the and Huynh takes down a monster pot worth 60,000 chips to assume the tournament chip lead.
Facing a raise before the flop, Rick Furay makes an interesting call in position holding the somewhat marginal . However his hand grows when the flop presents .
His opponent makes a continuation bet on the flop and Furay simply flat calls to disguise his strength. The turn of gives Furay a full house and when his opponent fires another barrel, the chips go into the middle with his opponent drawing dead holding .
A meaningless hits on the river and Furay now has around 45,000 in chips.
A huge hand on table ten has seen Rayan Nathan clash with Quentin Lae.
Lae raised from late position, and Nathan defended his big blind with a re-raise. Lae flat called and both players saw the flop of .
Nathan lead out for 5,000 and Lae re-raised all in. Lae had Nathan covered, and he went into the tank. After several minutes of deep consideration, Nathan eventually made the call for his tournament life with but was going to need some serious help against the of Lae.
The turn and river both bricked eliminiating Rayan Nathan while Quentin Lae is now our tournament chip leader with around 75,000 chips.
In a bizarre hand, a short-stacked Jose Vazquez holding pushed the last of his chips into the middle when the flop brought . However when Carlo Gosselin made the call with , Vazquez stood up and seemingly threw his cards into the muck to concede defeat. Amongst the confusion, the dealer deemed his cards live and the turn and river were dealt. Amazingly the on the turn and on the river, gave both players a straight and the pot was split!
When his opponent pushed all in on a flop of , PokerStars qualifier Dan Owston looked down at his and couldn't believe his luck!
"I have to call mate, sorry." said Owston, but eventhough his quads were well in front, his opponent incredibly still had some outs with a royal flush draw. It's rare to be nervous holding quads, but Owston was relieved to see the turn of and river , to eliminate his opponent.
Minutes before the tournament clock was paused for the break, Joe Hachem managed to double his tournament net worth in a hand that saw five players limp before the flop. The first three cards off the deck came and the action was checked around to the player on the button who opened with a 2,000 bet. The action then fell on Hachem, who, acting from the big blind, shoved all in for approximately 10,000 chips. His bet was called by a player in seat ten, who had originally checked the flop. All of the other players, including the button player who bet the flop, folded.
At the showdown, Hachem revealed and had his opponent, who tabled , quite dominated.
The turn brought the giving Hachem's opponent additional outs for a straight, but the on the river filled Joe up, effectively doubling him up to 23,000 in chips.
Immediately following the break PokerStars Internet qualifier Jai Thomas was all in with two black nines on the flop of . His opponent held for the nut flush draw but the only diamond he didn't want to see on the turn came with the landing to give Thomas quads nines and the 40,000 chip pot!