Kris Nedanovski, having started the day with 78,100, has moved up the counts to 140,000 after procuring some chips off Guillaume Sosnowski.
Nedanovski made it 3,500 to go from under the gun before the flop and Sosnowski made the call from late position and they would go heads-up into the flop which read .
Sosnowski opened for 4,000, Nedanovski flat-called and they would both check the turn of the .
When the dealer turned up the river , Sosnowski fired out 8,000, Nedanovski raised it to 17,000 and Sosnowski called, only to muck his hand when Nedanovski rolled over for the full house.
Sosnowski slips back to 115,000 but still looks in good shape in these early stages of the tournament.
With a raise to 6,000 in front of him, Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis made it 15,000 to play from the cutoff. The table folded back to the original raisor who made the call.
It's a tough ask to play the best online players out of position, but Karamalikis' opponent quickly negated any positional disadvantage by shoving all in for 34,500 at the flop. However it backfired as Karamalikis called and tabled for the best hand as his opponent revealed .
The turn was the and river the and Karamalikis sends another opponent to the rail to storm up to 241,000 chips.
It must be nice to be Ben Savage this week. With multiple final tables and one trophy already in the bag, Savage is off to a great start today thanks to a recent hand where he flopped the nuts against three opponents.
Savage was the preflop aggressor, as he made it 3,200 to play with three callers seeing the . Play checked through to a late position player who fired 3,600. Robert Wang the announced a raise on the button to 15,000 to force a fold from Sean Keeton in the small blind.
The action was back with Savage who was singing the Grand Alleluia Chorus in his head as he held . He decided another raise was in order as he made it 35,000 to go, but unfortunately for him both opponents laid down their cards as Savage flashed the goods. he moves up to 123,000 chips.
A short-stacked Trung Tran moved all in from the cutoff position and Jai Gao looked him up in the small blind.
Tran tabled but trailed the of Gao. Tran needed to find an ace to improve but it wasn't to be on the board to send Tran to the exit. Meanwhile Gao has started well today and now sits with 110,000 chips.
Nick Haidaris opened to 3,500 and found a call in the small blind in Bruce Nguyen, before Chris Chronis squeezed all in from the big blind for around 33,000 chips. Haidaris then announced he was all in for a little more as Nguyen sighed and released (what he later said was pocket nines).
Chronis:
Haidaris:
The board ran out to make Haidaris the nut flush to more than double up and leave Chronis crippled with just 1,300.
There was no comeback for Chronis as a few moments later he ran his last chips into the quad kings of Bruce Nguyen and was sent to the rail.