During Level 6 Dave 'Dubai' Shallow went from being potential chip leader, with almost 100,000, to out in short order. Apparently he lost two big pots in succession in nasty spots to bust. We didn't see either first hand but Sunny Chattha, who also bust shortly before the break, told us what he knew. "He lost about 50,000 with A-Q against aces on an A-Q-6-6 board," said Chattha. "And then on a king high board his opponent jammed the turn with pocket fives, he called with K-10 and the river was a five."
The main beneficiary of this appears to have been Ayman Zbib, who know has a monstrous stack of 144,000. To put that in perspective it's only 10,100 less than the Day 1a chip leader and there's over two hours of play left on Day 1b.
Jasper Wetemans opened for 1,300 from the small blind and French pro Timothee Jerbillet made the call from the big blind.
Both players checked the flop and the soon hit the turn. Wetemans now bet 1,500 and Jerbillet made the call.
The fell on the river and Wetemans bet 3,800. Jerbillet was contemplating his options and decided to raise to 9,300. Now it was time for Wetemans to think about the possibilities. After some thinking he made the call and Jerbillet mucked his hand. Wetemans showed his and raked in the chips.
On the turn of a board, Jesper Feddersen check-raised Eric Sadoun's 4,000 bet to 14,400. Sadoun made the call to see the on the river.
Feddersen wasted little time and picked up his remaining 1k and 5k chips and pushed them in the middle. Sadoun called quickly but Feddersen showed for a full house.
There's a bit of a Brit love-in going on at Table 12 where no less than 45% of the players seated there are British. Leading the chat is Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren, who was talking with Iaran Lightbourne about an Omaha game at a casino called The Ritz Club in London. It sounded like an invite only game and Coren joked that if even Lightbourne couldn't get in it then it must be good.
Talk between those two, Ben Jones and Matt Frankland then moved onto other cash games in London and who still played at The Vic. In terms of chip stacks Lightobourne (67,000) Frankland (57,000) and Jones (56,000) are busy building a stack, whilst Coren (8,000) would surely just like one with which she could build from.
Sharing a table with the tea drinkers are, amongst others, Bodo Sbrzesny (27,000), Martin Staszko (78,000) and Yerai Iribarren (78,000)
It all went in preflop. Ramin Hajiyev, a PokerStars player from Azerbaijan, was at risk and held the versus the of Eduard Bhaggoe. The cards ran out and Hajiyev doubled up. Bhaggoe took it in good spirits saying he was usually pretty good at flips. He still has chips and a chance to prove it.
We ran into Bart Lybaert on the rail, not a good sign for the Belgian player.
Lybaert had just turned his 3,000 stack back into 12,000 but would soon lose those in an unfortunate situation.
The cutoff opened to a 1,000 and the player on the button made the call. From the small blind Lybaert pushed his last 24 big blinds to the middle with . The big blind woke up with and made the call, both other players involved folded.
Lybaert had ran out of luck as the board came and he had to exit the tournament area.
That sounds super exciting but in fact it hardly was.
Jan Heitmann had opened from middle position to 1,100 and Manig Loeser made it 2,700 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Heitmann who raised to 6,700 and he called the shove from Loeser that followed.
Heitmann was the underdog with his but would massively jump in front against Loeser's after the flop. The on the turn and on the river were blanks though and the two German players had to split the pot.
"Jippie," Heitmann laughed. "That was almost a giant jippie"
The following players have all busted during Level 7: Fady Kamar, Philippe Gellman, Julien Robert, Peter Warfvinge, Antoine Saout, Bart Lybaert, Daniel Ospina, Bruno Soutavong, Marco Weidner, Steve Watts, Massou Cohen, Marton Czuczor, Jean-Philippe Rohr, Denys Shafikov, Salvatore Bonavena, Valentin Granier, Nicolas Dervaux and Michael Fratty.
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flop and the 
soon hit the turn. Wetemans now bet 1,500 and Jerbillet made the call.
fell on the river and Wetemans bet 3,800. Jerbillet was contemplating his options and decided to raise to 9,300. Now it was time for Wetemans to think about the possibilities. After some thinking he made the call and Jerbillet mucked his hand. Wetemans showed his 
and raked in the chips.
board, Jesper Feddersen check-raised Eric Sadoun's 4,000 bet to 14,400. Sadoun made the call to see the 
on the river.
for a full house.
had beaten Uladzimir Zakharau's 
by the river of the 
board.
versus the 
of Eduard Bhaggoe. The cards ran out 
and Hajiyev doubled up. Bhaggoe took it in good spirits saying he was usually pretty good at flips. He still has chips and a chance to prove it.
. The big blind woke up with 
and he had to exit the tournament area.
on the turn and 
