Jim Mastorakos raised to 110,000 and Brendan Edmonds reraised to 280,000 from the small blind. Mastorakos called but then folded to a 300,000 bet on the flop.
In the very next hand after the elimination of Aaron Wilt, Brad Rawiller pushed all in from under the gun for his last 545,000 and the action folded around to Brendan Edmonds who called from the big blind.
Edmonds:
Rawiller:
The board was spread ; Rawiller high-fived his friends on the rail, then sat back down to rake in a pot worth 1,130,000. Edmonds is back to 2.14 million.
The action folded around to Jim Mastorakos who raised to 115,000 from the cutoff. Trung Tran folded on the button, as did Glenn Croft on the small blind, before Brendan Edmonds reraised to 290,000 from the big blind.
Mastorakos called and they went heads-up to a flop of .
Edmonds announced he was all in. Mastorakos looked strained, going deep into the tank before making a crying call, turning up for a flush draw, but was behind the of Edmonds, who had flopped two pair.
The turn of the improved neither hand, so it was all down to the river, which was a useless .
Mastorakos couldn't rush to the cage fast enough - we suspect it was because he was frustrated, but we reckon his eighth place prizemoney should be able to turn that frown upside down.
Incidentally, Edmonds is now the outright chip leader with close to 4 million in his stack.
Anthony Kingston raised to 125,000 preflop from the small blind and fired 150,000 on the flop. Trung Tran called both these bets from the big blind and then moved all-in for around 500,000 on the turn.
Matthew Ephraums raised to 150,000 and Glenn Croft called in the big blind.
Ephraums continued the aggression betting 175,000 on the flop which Croft called. But when Ephraums bet 300,000 on the turn, Croft shook his head and gave up the hand.