In a battle of the blinds, a pot of 45,000 emerged to the 
flop. Ultimately, Namhyung Kim pushed into Maher Nouira and the latter happily called for the 88,000 he had behind.
Maher Nouira: 
Namhyung Kim: 
The 
turn and 
river failed to bring any upset and Nouira doubled.
Dawid Smolka was not as fortunate and bowed out from a neighbouring table moments later, having previously nursed a shorter stack for a while.
Jamil Wakil raised to 5,500 and then called a small three-bet to 13,000 by Mark Hammond. As they headed to the 
flop, Wakil checked and Hammond bet to win the pot right there.
The field is up to 49 entries mid-way through the penultimate level on Day 1 and the latest duo to enter the fray included Conor Beresford and Phachara Wongwichit. The former sat down with a fresh beer, admitting "it has been a long day" but he will play fewer than one hour in this tournament from now on as will everybody else.
Only 36 players remain with 13 minutes left in level seven.
Adrian Mateos was all-in for a mere 30,000 and Santhosh Suvarna committed his last 36,500 as well. Petr Svoboda was in the tank after he had invested 5,000 and then folded.
Adrian Mateos: 
Santhosh Suvarna: 
The kicker played on the 
runout and Svoboda was not happy by any means.
One hand later, Suvarna was all-in preflop and received two callers. Pavel Binar bet the 
flop to isolate and the showdown commenced.
Santhosh Suvarna: 
Pavel Binar: 
The kept Binar in the lead but Suarna spiked the river to survive.
Daniel Dvoress was all-in for 49,500 before the flop and Santhosh Suvarna looked him up for what turned out to be a clash of premium pairs.
Daniel Dvoress:
Santhosh Suvarna: 
The 
board changed nothing whatsoever and Suvarna was left with fewer than half the starting stack
One table over, Emil Bise raised to 4,500 and Juan Pardo three-bet to 22,500. Bise used one time bank and then jammed for 99,000. Pardo asked for an exact count and folded.
Level: 7
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Emil Bise was balanced over to table two which had lost yet another player. That happened to be Yigit Aksoy, who could not beat the 
of Hwany Lee on a nine-high runout. Lee had only hit a four but that was enough to reduce the field by one.
Gab Yong Kim also bowed out while Santhosh Suvarna re-entered.
Gab Yong Kim opted to check the 
river and then faced a bet worth 75,000 by Klas Lofberg on the button. That covered his remaining stack and the recent WSOP Europe runner-up to Paul Phua eventually folded after investing one time bank.
Juan Pardo defended the big blind against a hijack raise by Santhosh Suvarna and both players opted to check the 
flop. On the turn, Pardo check-called a bet worth 6,500 and checked the 
on the river.
Suvarna bet 20,000 with 15,000 behind only for Pardo to check-raise to 65,000. Only a few seconds later, Suvarna called and was shown the 
for the ace-high flush by Pardo. He mucked the cards and then exposed the before heading to the rail.
In the meanwhile, Pavel Binar bowed out from the same table shortly after and Stoyan Obreshkov entered the competition.
Yasuhiro Waki tapped the table in defeat when he came out second-best in the largest pot of the tournament so far. On a board of 
, the 
of Sam Greenwood were good enough for trips queens with the ace kicker and dealer briefly exposed the cards of Waki for what appeared to be 
.
"Nice hand," he said on the way out and Greenwood was then moved tables to balance the shrinking field.
Motoyoshi Okamura and Mike Watson became the next two casualties shortly thereafter.
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