On a flop of 8♠6♣4♦, Reagan Naidoo had 70,000 out in front and Benjamin Lingenfelder Jr opted to raise to 200,000. Naidoo eventually folded and some table chatter emerged in which he said he had ace-king suited.
In the first level of play, four players have been eliminated and the average jumped to 73 big blinds.
Benjamin Lingenfelder Jr told Panayiotis Giannakopoulos that he had "a pretty good start" after entering the day with only six twenty and another player to have done well in the early stages is Alfred Magani. He caught Steven Radloff bluffing on an eight-high board and called with the A♣8♣ to beat K♠Q♦ in showdown. After that, Magani won another big pot to reach seven figures.
One table over, Cliton Taliwanth raised to 20,000 and Marko Nortje called. Jay Kamli jammed for 208,000 in the small blind and collected the pot.
"All in and call,." the dealer on table three announced and the board showed K♠10♦4♣10♣J♥.
Benjamin Lingenfelder Jr then apologised to Banks Solomons as he had misread his hand while he exposed the Q♥9♣ for the queen-high straight. Solomons briefly showed his K♥J♣ for kings and jacks to hit the rail, completely shell-shock.
Panayiotis Giannakopoulos aimed to knock out the table short stack Dusan Pavlovic who was at risk for 141,000.
Dusan Pavlovic: A♥7♦ 
Panayiotis Giannakopoulos: K♦J♥
The larger stack failed to connect on the 8♠7♣2♦10♣5♦ and Pavlovic had a little fist bump celebration.
One table over, Hongbin Du was all-in with a short stack and the K♦5♣, at risk against 10♠10♣ of Xianbin Li. No king came on the Q♠9♥5♥7♣3♠ board to knock out Du.
The board read Q♣10♣10♦8♠7♠ and Mattia Festa pushed all-in to get called by Tome Dinh.
"Queens," Marko Nortje said but Festa only had the A♦10♠ for trips tens, which was still good enough to score the double as Dinh mucked.
The chips went in preflop between of the shorter stacks in the field and Divan Van Wyk was the player at risk for 190,000 against Patrice Ah-Nien.
Divan Van Wyk: 10♦10♣
Patrice Ah-Nien: Q♥Q♣
The Q♦5♣4♦ flop left Van Wyk in desperate shape and he was drawing dead on the 8♠ turn to make the 3♠ river a formality. After one elimination prior on the feature table, the field has been whittled down to the last 37 players.
In a three-bet pot to the Q♠J♥10♣ flop, Benjamin Lingenfelder Jr in the hijack check-raised from 55,000 to 135,000 and Banks Solomons in the cutoff called.
The J♦ turn saw Lingenfelder Jr bet for 180,000 to pick up a call and he bet another 200,000 on the 3♣ river. Solomons called and mucked versus 10♥10♠ for tens full of jacks.
Rajeev Poonhath three-bet jammed out of the big blind as shortest stack coming back with the K♣Q♣ and Shemir Kamoula looked him up with the J♠J♣ on the live stream table.
The 10♥3♠2♠8♥6♠ board sent Poonhath to the rail without anything to show for.
On the outer tables, Ryan James opened and then called a three-bet by Franco Da Matta as they headed to the 10♥6♠3♥ flop. James check-called for 40,000 and checked the J♦ turn. Da Matta bet 100,000 and won the pot right there.
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