Level: 16
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Level: 16
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Kazuhiro was all-in preflop for 164,000 with the Q♠Q♦ and his opponent vividly begged "please one time" while exposing the A♠J♣. They had a gutshot on the 10♥10♠8♣7♦ turn but the 2♦ river was a blank.
The cards are already back in the air and below are some of the stacks in the field with fewer than 200 hopefuls still in contention.
The tournament clock changed to 196 players remaining with three already in the prize and the players were then sent on the first ten-minute break of the final day. Expect carnage when the cards are back in the air as the average stack is near 20 big blinds.
There are five minutes left at the current blinds when the action resumes.
The clock is now reduced to 5 minutes left and several tables have stopped after completing their full orbit already. According to floor staff, pokermax on table 314 was the last player to bow out without a prize and the field is already in the money.
After all tables were accounted for, the emcee's announced the hand-for-hand mode with 203 players remaining and each table was supposed to play a full round in this bubble period. Tables who finished early with their hands were supposed to stop while everyone was awaiting the "in the prize" announcement by the staff.
During these hands, otenim doubled for the last 57,000 with A♦Q♠ versus A♣9♣ preflop thanks to a board of Q♣7♠2♥K♦Q♥.
With just 20:05 minutes left in the second level of the day, floor staff told the dealers to finish after their current hand as the screens showed only 207 players remaining. It is expected that hand-for-hand mode will come into play shortly only a few spots away from "in the prize".
Throughout a board of 10♦6♣2♣8♥3♥, two pocket pairs collided and built a pot of around 300,000 already. The last 96,000 of Chanmio then went in after the river and she doubled with A♦A♥ versus K♦K♣ against SIN to swap their stack sizes.
It appears that either KOKOMOMG or the player that was moved there to replace them got their chips in with 9♦7♦ and they were up against big stack nakaji04 with the A♣Q♣. The board ran out 8♣7♠5♣A♦5♥ and the ace on the turn boosted nakaji04's stack.
The chips have been flying in the first half an hour and more than 70 players were already eliminated with more to follow shortly. The following players are confirmed no longer in the mix as all of their seats were empty on non-breaking tables.