Two very short stacks picked up offsuit aces at the same time and their chips flew in preflop, with the deep-stacked big blind giving them both a spin for under five big blinds.
Xenophon Constantiou: 
Sidney Button: 
Big blind big stack: 
The board ran out 
and Button picked up £230 for his efforts.
Haji Hussein, last night's chip leader, is up over 800,000 after eliminating Joss Murdoch. He opened to 22,000 and his neighbour Murdoch jammed for 138,000 with 
. When it folded back to Hussein, he called at lightspeed with . The board of 
changed nothing.
Murdoch still has his Platinum Pass Experience coming up at Aspers in London, to which he also won his seat online. The Experience is a single table live tournament with £16,000 in prize money; the Moneymaker Tour Main Event has been a good warm-up for him.
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Down to just 56,000, Blair Matheson jammed preflop with 
, picked off by Andrew Mackenzie with the dominating 
. The 
on the flop sealed the deal.
Alerted to a big raise on the river of a 
board, we found Robert Watt all-in vs. Saifur Chowdhury, who'd bet 100,000 into a pot of over 150,000. Chowdhury had bet 50,000 on the turn, which Watt had called. After a minute of so, Chowdhury announced "call".
Chowdhury: 
for a flopped set.
Watt: 
- the rivered wheel.
"I couldn't fold," said Chowdhury as he headed to the exit, the Day 1b chip leader's last 57,000 not lasting long.
Heads up to a 
flop, Fraser MacIntyre (who'd called Nikolay Ponomarev's open in the small blind) checked, and received a check back. He led out on the 
turn, Ponomarev calling. The river brought the and a bet out of 51,000 - a third of MacIntyre's stack. After a short think, Ponomarev set him all in, and he passed quickly.
Elizabeth Cape is the last player to leave the Main Event without a slice of the prizepool in her pocket. She opened preflop to 15,000 called by the button and small blind Haji Hussein.
Flop: 
. Hussein checked, Cape continued for 20,000; call.
Turn: 
. Hussein checked again, Cape bet 45,000 and Hussein set her all in (putting 170,000 in front of him). She made the call, showing down 
, while Hussein tabled 
. The river was the , Hussein's baby full house taking the pot and bursting the bubble.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Luc Connor-Hartley got the last of his chips in preflop with vs. the 
of Christopher Stringer, but the on the turn ended his hopes of a double.
"Chris [Fraser]! Chris! I'm in trouble!" So shouted Hamza Nasir in the direction of the cash table when his under the gun plus one shove of 54,000 with was called by Usman Ulhaq with . The board of 
was no help.
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