Down to less than 90 players, the tournament has switched to eight-handed tables and there are just 11 of them left in the main tournament area. At the end of this level will be a 75-minute dinner break before another four levels of one hour each are scheduled.
Ludovic Geilich bombed through a board of and shoved the river against Yuriy Boyko. The latter tanked and called the clock on himself, then folded. The table broke right after and both parted ways. Shantanu Banerji is no big stack anymore either and moved over to table one, where an all in showdown just took place.
Paul Skipper opened to 22,000 and Miguel Angel Martin shoved for 96,000. Skipper eventually called with the and the Spaniard had . The board fell and Martin doubled.
At the end of this level is just a regular break of 25 minutes and the dinner break will kick in after the next set of two levels. With 79 players left, the average has climbed to 358,000, which still is a whoppin 44 big blinds.
Lucy Gamble raised from the cutoff and Daniel Burrow called from one seat over to head to a flop of . Burrow got the remainder of his stack worth 83,000 in with for top pair and the flush draw, but was trailing Gamble's . The on the turn changed nothing much, but Burrow doubled thanks to the on the river.
William Picard was all in with a short stack and got called by two opponents including David Kahan in the big blind. The board came and Picard flashed . Kahan had and the third player in the hand could only reveal .
Ludovic Geilich’s table has broken so now he is introducing his new table to his huge stack and raising a good number of hands. He won’t always have it his own way though.
Geilich raised to 18,000 under the gun and got called by Hermann Behrens in the big blind.
The flop was and Behrens shoved for around 120,000. Geilich mucked.
Alexandre Poulain opened from the button and called the shove of short stack Jordan Conroy out of the big blind with . Conroy had the and the board came to see Conroy double.
Soon after he shoved the cutoff and Lucy Gamble reshoved from the button to force out the blinds.
Jordan Conroy:
Lucy Gamble:
The board ran out and Conroy was sent to the rail in 78th place.
The action started with a raise by Andreas Anastasiades and Jose Astima called. Liv Boeree then three-bet out of the big blind and Anastasiades folded, Astima four-bet shoved from the button for just under 400,000. Boeree called for less and took a big flip.
Liv Boeree:
Jose Astima:
The flop came and Boeree smiled, then said "that is not a good start." It was all over after the turn, and the meaningless river completed the board.
Joining the action on the flop, Naoufel Bennani-Smires bet 36,000 out of the small blind and Ludovic Geilich called from middle position. The fell on the turn and Bennani-Smires slowed down and checked. Geilich now fired a bet worth 74,000 and was called before doing so again on the river.
This time it was a hefty 148,000 and Bennani-Smires called only to muck when being shown for a pair of aces. Geilich has a monster stack and Muhaket Perati one table over is not far behind.