A table in Jimmy's room broke and there are 186 players remaining. Since several rooms are in play in the Hippodrome Casino, the staff has decided to play hand-for-hand three off the money already and there are just under four minutes remaining in the level.
The clock has been stopped as they break a table in Jimmy's room and verify exact numbers as the bubble approaches.
Three players saw a flop of 
.
Rehman Kassam checked from the big blind and PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos bet 14,000. Adam Slaiper called his bet, but Kassam sprung a big check-raised all in.
Ramos gave it several minutes thought, counting out his stack and shifting around in his seat. In the end he pushed his cards away.
Slaiper too looked a bit tortured and shook his head a few times before he too slid his cards to the dealer. Kassam collected the chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000
4,200
|
4,200 |
|
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Short stack Virgo Laansoo got his short stack in with 
and Nicolae Ostrovschi looked him up with 
. The board came 
and that was it for Laansoo very close to the money.
And almost at the same time, Adrian Mateos, who was supposed to buy off all the small chip denominations for the upcoming race in the break, handed all the racks over to Clement Tripodi after busting to the Frenchman.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
|
115,000
56,900
|
56,900 |
|
Busted | |
|
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|
Busted | |
Julien Sitbon had increased his stack to around 200,000, but his media card was just handed over. A quick look at the table showed a monster stack of Shantanu Banerji, who kept knocking out short stacks left and right on Day 1c. Banerji looked up, smiled and explained what had happened.
Banerji opened to 6,700 and Sitbon three-bet to 17,000, Banerji called. On the 
flop with two spades, Banerji check-raised from 16,000 to 39,000 and Sitbon called before the Brit fired the 
turn for 47,000 and shoved the river for 110,000 effective. Sitbon didn't believe him and called with 
for just top pair while Banerji rolled over pocket jacks.
Victor Choupeaux had top two against a set and busted, as did fellow Frenchman Emrah Cakmak.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
500,000
366,000
|
366,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
Aamir Khan opened for 6,500 and it folded to William Kassouf who thought for a while before raising to 18,200. That left only a stack of blue chips worth 100,000 behind.
“I’m raising all my change to find out where I am,” Kassouf told Khan, “If you’re winning raise, if you’re losing fold. Don’t call.”
Khan called. The flop was 
.
“You got any of that?” Kassouf asked before betting 35,000. Khan looked like he wasn’t sure what to do so Kassouf decided to give him some help.
“I got aces. The biggest pair. Ace jack is not good. Queens are no good, should I continue?”
Convinced or not Khan folded and all cards remained unseen.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
137,000
41,200
|
41,200 |
|
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
James Mitchell has moved to close to 600,000 while Day 1d big stack Keisuke Hikosaka and Andrew Hulme have been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
590,000
216,400
|
216,400 |
|
320,000
231,700
|
231,700 |
|
290,000
46,200
|
46,200 |
|
|
200,000
91,500
|
91,500 |
|
|
||
|
160,000
130,900
|
130,900 |
|
150,000
117,300
|
117,300 |
|
|
||
|
|
60,000
90,200
|
90,200 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
At risk not long ago, Kalidou Sow has moved to an above-average stack and the latest casualty of his little run good was Loizos Loizou. He got it in for around 25,000 with the 
and Sow called on the cutoff with 
. The board came 
and Sow made two pair to eliminate Loizou.
Sow then switched into entertainment mode with plenty of table talk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
140,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
Busted |
Over 40 players have hit the rail so far today as the short stack carnage continues. Among the victims were Christopher Yong and
Usman Siddique.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
With 250 players remaining according to the screens, and further tables breaking, the tables are slowly bug surely switched to nine-handed after the redraw had been done ten-handed.
