Hands #22-26: Akkari Goes into Break With Slight Lead

Hand #22: Raffaele Sorrentino completed the blind with . Lachezar Petkov tossed in his chips with to see a flop. Sorrentino checked and Petkov checked back. The hit and Petkov called a min-bet of 250,000. On the river, Sorrentino fired again for 475,000. Petkov fired in a raise to 1,125,000. Sorrentino found the fold button.

Hand #23: Brian Kaufman raised with to 525,000 in the cutoff. Petkov put in a three-bet to 1,525,000 in the small blind with , chasing everyone away.

Hand #24: Petkov came in firing again with a button raise to 525,000 with . Andre Akkari wasn't having it with in the small blind, reraising to 1,650,000. That slowed Petkov down and sent the pot to the PokerStars Team Pro.

Hand #25: Dealt in the cutoff, Petkov came in for another 525,000 raise. Sorensson flatted the small blind with . The flop prompted a bet of 950,000 from Sorensson, which won him the pot.

Hand #26: Three players saw a flop for the minimum. Two checks ahead of him prompted a bet of 675,000 with Sorensson, and he won holding . Both blinds folded bottom pair.

Players went on break for 20 minutes.