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Nothing has changed, Juanda raising the most and the short stacks getting their pushes through.
Passed to John Juanda on the button, who automatically raised the button to 230,000 and won the blinds and antes.
Next hand and Payman pushed all-in for about 1.1 million, receiving no callers. Everyone is playing very tight so far.
They are back at the felt, and with a bit of luck they'll be clashing metaphorical swords in just a moment.
Level: 29
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 10,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,270,000 | 3,195,000 |
|
7,235,000 | 70,000 |
|
2,400,000 | -200,000 |
|
1,840,000 | 1,040,000 |
|
1,775,000 | -1,895,000 |
|
1,125,000 | -325,000 |
|
610,000 | -490,000 |
And with that, players are now on a break.
John Juanda opened for 165,000 and David Vamplew flat-called - the first call of a Juanda raise we've seen since that curious jacks-versus-nines encounter with Artur Wasek.
They saw a 
flop and Juanda bet out 270,000. Vamplew called, and they saw the turn.
The turn was the 
and this time Juanda bet out 560,000. A bit of a tank from Vamplew this time, but again, he flat-called.
The pot was getting big by now, and when the river came down an irrelevant-looking 
Juanda bet out 1.25 million, giving Vamplew a look reminiscent of the internet's famous dramatic lemur. But Vamplew snap-called this time, and then was crestfallen when he found that his turned top pair with 
was no good against Juanda's flop set with 
.
Juanda picked up the 4.645 million pot, and lurched back into the chip lead. Vamplew dropped right down to around 1.7 million.
Per Ummer pushed all-in from the small blind and Artur Wasek snap-called from the big blind, Ummer did not seem too happy.
Ummer: 
Wasek: 
The board came a completely underwhelming (certainly for Ummer) 
. Ummer with his shiny silver hair that makes him look like a Bond villain is the 8th place finisher here today, everyone else is guaranteed six figures in pounds now.
Kayvan Payman shoved for the second time today, but no-one was interested enough to make the call.
Payman moved on up to over 1.4 million.
John Juanda has been using his big stack status to bully the short stacks. He just now raised to 185,000 from the button and everyone folded; then the next hand he made it 160,000 from the cutoff and everyone folded again, including big blind Fernando Brito who has around 700,000 or so.
Artur Wasek went all in but didn't get a call. He shook his head as he picked up the blinds and antes, possibly still thinking about how he played those pocket nines against John Juanda's pocket jacks (his favourite hand!) a little while back.
Next hand Kayvan Payman got his whole stack in the middle, but no-one called and he pulled his chips back with a little puff of relief.
