Will Molson is the latest player to fall, the PCA High Roller winner (and former double runner-up) was all in preflop with against Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero's . Molson could only sigh when the door card was the and the rest of the board came down sending Molson to his doom.
Domantas Klimciauskas has just taken a bite out of Daniel Weinman's stack, the latter paying off a 180,000 bet on the river of a board only to find the Lithuanian holding for the flopped wheel.
Klimciauskas is over the million mark while Weinman dropped to 560,000.
Before the break we saw the Rise of the Preflop Aggressor - no showdowns, no board cards, just Q&A where the Q is, "I'm up for it, are you?" and the A is, "No."
Kristoffer Thorsson, whose dramatic fall from near chip-lead to short stack has been the talk of the last half hour, took his turn to move in preflop over a 32,000 three-bet from Simon Higgins. Despite having just 120,000 left in total, Higgins declined to call. Thorsson, meanwhile, must have been involved in a huge pot with now-leader and lhs neighbour Torsten Brinkmann, as he's now monster leader with over 1.2 million.
More preflop shipment from Jan Bendik: Short stack Bendik moved his 104,000 all in after there'd been an early position raise to 12,000 and two callers. No one took him on, and he showed , picking up over 40k without even having to do so.
The familiar cry of, "All in and call!" to alert the TV crew brought us over to Josef Bachar's table too; the Israeli was all in against Domantas Klimciauskas.
Bachar:
Klimciauskas:
While they were waiting for the TV crew to do their thing, Daniel Weinman told Klimciauskas, "You don't lose many of these." This would be one of the few, though.
Board:
Bachar doubled up to 300,000 with Ran Azor providing commentary in Hebrew all the way down the board for those in the know. Klimciauskas counted out the call and didn't seem particularly bothered - he's still at 885,000 after that.
Kristoffer Thorsson, whose stack was not long ago bisected by Torsten Brinkmann, has just now doubled back through him.
Thorsson:
Brinkmann:
Board:
Thorsson is back up to 305,000, out of the danger zone for now. Remember, he came back from a 21,800 Day 2 starting stack yesterday to be second in chips this morning, so it would be a mistake to rule out another impressive recovery. Still, Thorsson is not doing nearly as well as Brinkmann - the German is still at over a million.
Tobias Reinkemeier has been eliminated, he shoved all in from the big blind over the top of Marco Leonzio's button raise and got snap-called by the Italian.
Reinkemeier:
Leonzio:
"I like my chances," said the German.
The flop came .
"Not bad..." he mused. But the came on the turn to put Leonzio back ahead.
"This is exciting isn't it?" declared Reinkemeier, "first a pair, then the ace and a flush draw..."
The came on the river and Leonzio slammed his fist on the table. Reinkemeier was knocked out and another table has now been broken as a result.