Rumor has it that Jude Ainsworth just doubled up to about 600,000 when his pocket queens won a race against an opponent with Big Slick.
Then a moment later, Ainsworth won another big pot to add 200,000 more chips to his stack. He's all the way up around 800,000 now after laboring with a below-average stack for the bulk of the day.
Patrick Renkers just got a big stronger as he's up to 2.5 million in chips now. How'd he do it? Well, he busted Dennis Bejedal from the tournament.
From under the gun plus one, Bejedal raised to 25,000. Renkers reraised to 58,000 on the button and play folded back to Bejedal. He reraised an made it 110,000 to go with 348,000 behind. Renkers moved all in and Bejedal called.
Bejedal tabled the 
with his tournament life at risk. Renkers held the 
to put the two players in a coin flip. The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Renkers smacked a king to win the hand. Bejedal was eliminated.
From under the gun, chip leader Patrick Renkers raised to 25,000. Action folded to his new tablemate, Garry Tevosov, in the big blind and he three-bet to 60,000. Renkers called.
The two players took the 
flop before Tevosov bet 60,000. Renkers called.
The turn was the 
and Tevosov slowed down with a check. Renkers fired 85,000 and that was all he needed to win the pot. With that pot, Renkers has hit the two-million mark.
Eli Heath was all in preflop with two black fours. He was up against the 
for Mads Wissing. After the board ran out 
, Heath headed to the payout desk.
When the players returned back from the break, there was a problem regarding the stacks of David Hrdlicka and Vojtech Ruzicka, two of our remaining Czechs.
There was a stack of 500,000 chips placed in between the two of them, and nobody was certain where they belonged. In the end, the staff surmised that they were left over from a partial color-up during the break, and they were removed from play.
Both players protested a bit -- not over the 500,000 chips, but because their chips were colored up without them present.
Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
We're at the end of another level, and the players are taking their final break of the night.
From early position, Chris Moorman opened with a raise to 22,000. Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth three-bet to 50,000 from the hijack seat and then Michaela Smrckova reraised all in from the cutoff seat for 270,000. Action folded back to Ainsworth and he also gave it up, allowing Smrckova to pick up the chips.
On the next hand, Moorman opened to 22,000 and Smrckova three-bet to 50,000. Moorman folded and Smrckova added some more to her stack.
Petr Jaros opened to 22,000 from the button, and Vojtech Ruzicka shoved in from the big blind. Jaros only had about 200,000 chips left, and he spent a few minutes toying with the decision. Since they're both Czechs, Jaros asked the dealer if he could speak to his opponent in their native language.
The dealer allowed the exchange, and Jaros quickly asked, "Hey, dude, what do you have?" in Czech.
That drew chuckles from everyone around who understood, but Ruzicka knew better than to divulge the contents of his hand. After another little while, Jaros conceded that he could not play with less than 20bb at that table, and he called of the rest of his chips to put his tournament life in jeopardy.
Showdown
Jaros: 
Ruzicka: 
Race! Jaros seemed to like his chances, but the dealer had other ideas. The board ended up reading 
, and Jaros has been sent to the rail.
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