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In Level 8 with blinds of 800/1,600 and an ante of 200, preflop action saw all the chips go into the middle between "Ilija" in the small blind and "stephub0331," who was in the big blind.

"Ilija":
"stephhub0331":

"Ilija" woke up with the second-best starting hand and ran it into the only one that could best it. Fortunately for them, the flop came to give them a set of kings and put them ahead, where they would stay as the turn and river completed the runout to result in them winning the pot with a full house and earning the double.

"stephhub0331" was left with less than two big blinds and was eliminated on the next hand.

Forty-eight entries have now been logged as play has reached Level 6 with the tournament now running for one hour. Blinds are now 500/1,000 with an ante of 125.

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In Level 5 with blinds of 400/800 and an ante of 100, there was a blind-on-blind battle with 19,200 in the middle on a board reading .

"IReadYrSoul" checked in the small blind and "Lanfeust" bet 20,000 in the big blind. "IReadYrSoul" check-raised all in for 47,100 and "Lanfeust" called.

"IReadYrSoul":
"Lanfeust":

"IReadYrSoul" had flopped trips and only needed to fade the two remaining aces in the deck. The river further improved them to a full house, leaving "Lanfeust's" aces up second best to result in the pot being shipped to "IReadYrSoul" as they earned a double.

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In Level 4 with blinds of 300/600 and an ante of 75, "miw210x" raised it up to 1,500 in early position and action folded around to "Djp120388," who was on the button and three-bet to 4,200. "miw210x" thought for a bit and then four-bet to 10,500 to put actoin back onto "Djp120388."

"Djp120388" five-bet jammed for around 50,000 and "miw210x" quickly folded, resulting in "Djp120388" taking down the pot preflop with their shove.

The first five-minute break has completed with play midway through Level 3. Blinds are 250/500 with an ante of 60, and the field has risen up to 35. Here's a complete look at the chip counts.

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In Level 3 with blinds of 250/500 and an ante of 60, preflop action saw 6,230 in the middle with action heads up between "upayformypennys" in middle position and "FooQuan," who was in the hijack.

The flop came and "upayformypennys" checked. "FooQuan" bet 3,500 and "upayformypennys" called.

The turn was and "upayformypennys" checked again. "FooQuan" continued, betting another 5,000. "upayformypennys" check-raised to 17,115 and "FooQuan" came over the top, three-betting all in for just over 40,000. "upayformypennys" called.

"FooQuan":
"upayformypennys":

"upayformypennys" had turned a set of tens and had "FooQuan" drawing dead to the river to score the effective double, taking their stack over 100,000 shortly before the first break of the evening.

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The number of players in the tournament has grown to 28 in Level 2 with blinds of 200/400 and an ante of 50.