Anthony Zinno opened for 400 from early position, and Yuguang Li made the call. In the big blind Timothy Adams over called to make it three-way to the flop.
All three of them checked on and the popped up on the turn. Adams bet out 1,000, just Zinno called.
The fell on the river and Adams bet 2,300. Zinno raised to 6,000 and Adams folded.
From early position, Julian Stuer made it 600 to go. He was called by hijack [Removed:119] before Mikita Badziakouski squeezed to 3,000 from the small blind. Stuer made the call, Bensadoun folded.
The flop came and Badziakouski bet 4,000. Stuer made the call, and called the 11,000 Badziakouski bet on the turn as well.
The completed the board and Badziakouski shoved all in. Stuer called and Badziakouski turned over . Stuer showed and got his 29,625 back times two, plus the rest of the pot. Badziakouski was left with just 1,000 in chips.
As if Ole Schemion had not been running quite yet in this festival, he just picked up a premium hand and got paid off by Stephen Chidwick. One hand prior, they checked down a king-high board and Chidwick won the pot with after turning an eight.
Now, Schemion raised and then four-bet to hefty 8,625 to see Chidwick call out of the blinds. On the flop, Chidwick checked and Schemion's continuation bet worth 6,000 was called. On the turn and river both players checked and Schemion's won the decent pot.
Laurynas Levinskas won his ticket for the High Roller in yesterday evening's Satellite after surviving the bubble with only 1.5 big blinds. The Lithuanian just got involved in a hand with [Removed:119] on a flop of and saw the action checked to him. Levinskas bet 1,000 into a pot of 1,500 and Bensadoun check-raised to 2,500.
Levinskas called before both checked the turn. On the river, Bensadoun bet 3,300 and that got the Lithuanian out of the way.
Alexander Timokhin and Kully Sidhu got into a raising war to see the former eventually toss in a raise to 5,200 from the cutoff. Sidhu called out of the blinds and checked the flop, Timokhin made quite a big continuation bet for 15,000. Sidhu peeked at his cards again and let go.
Ibrahim Raouf limped in from the cutoff, followed by Ole Schemion raising to 1,100 from the button. Raouf called, and checked on . Schemion followed his pre flop aggression up with a bet of 1,000 and Raouf was quick to call.
The hit the turn and this time around, Raouf check called a bet of 3,000.
With the completing the board, Raouf quickly glanced at his stack before betting 6,000. Schemion asked his neighbor if he had made a straight, and called when Raouf smiled.
Raouf showed but proofed out kicked by Schemion who tabled .
The board was already completed with and Mike McDonald checked out of the small blind. On the button, Leonardo Cucchiarini bet 1,925 for about half the pot and was given the usual stare down by "Timex" with the latter eventually making the call. McDonald's were good and the pot was shipped to him.
The field size now shows 66 entrants and that number is sure to be growing significantly over the next few hours. Below is a list of the most recent notables that took their seats.