On the button, Luca Pagano raised to 2,200. The small blind called and David Penly then shoved out of the big blind for what looked like 24,500. Pagano called and the small blind quickly let go.
David Penly:
Luca Pagano:
The board came and Penly eventually failed to complete a gutshot.
Another PokerStars Team Pro is thriving, as Jake Cody has built his stack up even more. Darren Delahunty next to him went the other way around and just became one of the recent casualties.
Just when the players headed out of the tournament room to go into their break, Ian Nelson walked by and said "you missed it, 150k pot kings versus queens - he flopped a queen." The opponent that wasn't done stacking yet is Tiago Freitas, who joined the chip leaders.
Arron Fletcher opened from under the gun for 2,900 before Joe Johnson on the button raised to 6,700. The blinds folded and it was back on Fletcher who raised to 16,200.
Johnson moved all in and Fletcher called to see the bad news. Johnson had while Fletcher needed a whole heap of luck with his .
It didn’t come as the board ran out and the aces held to bust Fletcher.
The remaining field has been united in the main tournament area and a few further big names have run out of chips. Among them were the last UKIPT London champion Usman Siddique, Victor Ilyukhin, Igor Kurganov, Gang Wang, PokerStars team Pro Felipe Ramos, Sebastian Malec and Niall Farrell.
Simon Ravnsbaek raised from the button and Robert Heidorn defended the big blind. The flop went check, check, and Heidorn bet the turn for 3,700. Ravnsbaek called and did so again reluctantly for 9,500 on the river. Heidorn rolled over for top pair and scooped the pot.
Soon after, the German won an even bigger pot when holding pocket kings and check-shoved a ten-high flop. Adrian Mateos had pocket jacks and found no help on a blank turn and river.
Heidorn didn't slow down after that either and won another two pots to essentially double his stack.
Tiago Freitas, one of the later entrants, has been having a bit of a battle with Chris Moorman who has been in the same seat since the start of the tournament.
In a recent hand Freitas opened for 2,500 and Moorman three-bet from the button to 6,400. Freitas called and they saw a flop of . No action there but on the turn card Freitas bet and took the pot.
A few hands later an open from Freitas saw Moorman three-bet once again, but this time Freitas folded.
Moorman has position but it is Freitas who has the stack at a time when the average is 55,312.
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and Penly eventually failed to complete a gutshot.
while Fletcher needed a whole heap of luck with his 
.
flop went check, check, and Heidorn bet the 
turn for 3,700. Ravnsbaek called and did so again reluctantly for 9,500 on the 
for top pair and scooped the pot.
. No action there but on the turn card 
Freitas bet and took the pot.