Matthew Miller busted soon after punting off most of the chips to Ludovic Geilich while Paul Berende and Kuljinder Sidhu have fallen lately. Richard Milne opted for the reentry and is back in with a fresh stack.
Steve Watts raised to 1,100 at the end of the previous level and faced the three-bet of Martin Finger for 3,900 before clicking to 9,000. Finger called and check-called a bet of 9,000 on the flop. An ace on the turn was checked through and the blank river saw Finger shove with the . Watts called with according to the German and lost most of his stack.
Soon after, Watts defended his big blind against a raise and the call of David Elyashar in the small blind. On the flop he got it in with for the flush draw. Elyashar had flopped trips with and running sixes sent Watts out of the tournament.
Samy Kamal's massive stack is nowhere to be found anymore and Tobias Peters got moved over to his very seat. Steven van Zadelhoff just shrugged. "Many small hands, we know it was gonna happen."
And then Ludovic Geilich lost his stack within two hands. First an open-ended straight draw against the pocket queens of Paul Berende failed and then the Scot lost a flip with pocket eights against the of Wim Emo.
One Dane has already won the Main Event of the Master Classics since 1992 and Per Munksgaard is on the way to become the second after just winning a four-way all in. The Dane held and put three opponents at risk:
Richard Milne:
Ben Wilinofsky:
Third player:
The board ran out and the set of kings won the massive pot.
After a raise to 1,300 and a three-bet to 3,500 by the player from one seat over, the action folded around to Louis Salter. The Brit moved all in for 12,650 and all opponents folded. The same table also features Jussi Nevanlinna as well, who late registered and hasn't done much yet to his stack.
Omer Cubukcu opened to 2,000 and Pim van Riet moved all in for 12,000 from the button. The action reached Paul Hoefer in the big blind and he jammed for 48,500. Cubukcu had that covered but needed five minutes to make up his mind and call with pocket queens. Van Riet had jacks and the of Hoefer didn't connect with the board to see two players bust.
In the break, Cheng-Wei Yin was down to a mere 7,000 chips but has since increased that to 53,000 thanks to a double up and then a big flip versus Niels van Alphen. The Belgian opened to 1,150 from the button, van Alphen three-bet to 3,600 and Yin then four-bet to 12,000 before calling the shove with pocket nines. Van Alphen had ace-king and the Belgian successfully dodged a on the flop to give his opponent even more outs.
On the board , Matthew Miller was trying to represent a big hand and put Ludovic Geilich all in, but the latter called with the for a full house and Miller's left him short-stacked.
Steve O'Dwyer is putting a clear sign on the table with regards to the captain on board, bossing around with a massive stack.
One very long hand into the break still took place and Fatima Moreira de Melo lost about half her stack. On the turn, she called a bet of 12,000 before the was then checked through. The opponent flipped over and the Sports Star mucked.