With 23 players remaining, the floor have decided to condense the field into three tables.
The clock was paused for just a few minutes to allow this to happen, and play is now back underway.
Phil Ivey raised the button to 10,000 before Biao Ding three-bet out of the small blind to 42,000. Once the big blind folded, Ivey four-bet to 115,000, which got Ding to lay his hand down.
Two hands later, Ivey min-raised from the hijack to 10,000, and Ding three-bet to 28,000 from the button. Ivey called to see a flop.
Both players checked a runout of J♣8♠J♦5♣A♠ all the way to the river before Ding bet 40,000. Ivey folded, and Ding scooped in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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450,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
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350,000
60,000
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60,000 |
Jean-Noel Thorel opened to 12,000 from under the gun and Danny Tang called in the cutoff. Tamas Adamszki also called on the button.
The trio saw a flop of 6♥5♦Q♣, which Thorel checked. Tang fired 15,000, Adamszki called, and Thorel folded.
When the 8♠ landed on the turn, Tang took a peek at Adamszki's stack and upon learning there was 107,000 in it, he bet 37,000. Adamszki snap-folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
540,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
475,000
245,000
|
245,000 |
|
300,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
230,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
107,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
On a full board of 2♠7♣J♣3♣5♥, there were around 150,000 in the pot when Aleksejs Ponakovs checked the big blind and Seth Davies bet 175,000 from the button. Ponakovs took some time, but decided to fold.
On the table behind them, Jean-Noel Thorel raised to 10,000 in the button and Jesse Lonis shoved 32,000 from the small blind. When it got back to Thorel, he snap-folded with a stack of almost 600,000.
"What? It's just 32,000," said Danny Tang to Thorel, who nodded his head in acknowledgment.
Lonis won't mind, though, as he almost doubled up in that hand without even seeing a community card.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
|
|
580,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
360,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
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52,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
Byron Kaverman raised the button to 11,000 and only Kayhan Mokri defended from the big blind.
Mokri checked the A♥K♣3♠ flop, and Kaverman fired out a bet of 10,000. Mokri continued in the form of a call.
The 7♣ rolled off on the turn and both players checked to see the K♠ appear on the river. Mokri bet 54,000, and Kaverman folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
700,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
||
|
650,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
|
630,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
320,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
230,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
There were around 60,000 in the middle on a K♠J♣3♥9♦ board when Tamas Adamszki fired 47,000 from under the gun and Phil Ivey called on the button.
A 10♠ dropped on the river and after Adamszki checked with a little under 100,000 behind. Ivey then bet 100,000, and Adamszki snap-called.
Ivey then turned over K♣Q♥ for a straight, and Adamszki showed Q♠10♥ for the same straight, which meant they chopped the pot.
On the next table, Leon Sturm ran into the pocket queens of Kayhan Mokri and hit the rail in the closing level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
600,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
|
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|
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400,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
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|
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175,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
Busted | |
Level: 8
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Niklas Astedt had just lost the majority of his chips in the previous hand when Morten Klein picked off his river bluff.
With just 6,000 left in his stack, Asted jammed under the gun, with Jean-Noel Thorel calling on the button, Jesse Lonis calling out of the small blind, and Danny Tang putting in the extra chip to call from the big blind.
Lonis and Tang checked the Q♦2♦J♣ flop, and Thorel bet 15,000. Lonis folded, but Tang made the call.
The 10♦ turn and 3♥ river checked through, and Tang showed J♦7♠ for a pair of jacks. Thorel revealed K♦K♥ for an overpair, and Astedt flipped up A♥7♣ and headed to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
650,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
|
400,000
232,000
|
232,000 |
|
|
250,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
|
|
90,000
93,000
|
93,000 |
|
Busted |
Nikita Kuznetsov made it 12,000 to go from the hijack and Punnat Punsri defended his big blind.
They went to a flop of 10♣2♠4♣, where Punsri checked and Kuznetsov continued for 14,000. Punsri then stuck in a raise to 50,000, and Kuznetsov called.
A 2♦ hit the turn and Punsri bet 78,000, which Kuznetsov called to the K♠ river. After thinking for a while, Punsri checked, then Kuznetsov elected to check it back.
Punsri then revealed a pair of tens with A♦10♠, and Kuznetsov let out a sigh before he mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
775,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
510,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
500,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
330,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
|
220,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
|
120,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Phil Ivey opened from under the gun and got Santhosh Suvarna and Jason Koon coming along from the blinds.
The flop came 2♦3♦3♥, and when it got to Ivey, he bet 12,000. Suvarna called, then Koon raised to 40,000. Both Ivey and Suvarna called.
A 2♠ dropped on the turn, and once Suvarna checked, Koon bet 40,000. Ivey took some time before he called, and Suvarna quickly folded.
When the J♠ landed on the river, Koon bet enough to cover Ivey, who had around 120,000 behind. Ivey was in the tank and burned through a few of his time banks, then eventually made the call to put himself at risk.
Koon flipped 6♥4♥ for a missed straight draw, and Ivey tabled 10♦10♣ for a pair of tens to scoop the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
475,000
308,000
|
308,000 |
|
|
||
|
250,000
198,000
|
198,000 |
|
||
|
230,000 | |
|
|
160,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
55,000
286,000
|
286,000 |
