The first entry of Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski was not crowned with success and he eventually got a shorter stack in against Jason "JASON.MAC100" McConnon when he three-bet jammed fewer than 20 big blinds out of the small blind and was called by the Brit.
Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski: 
Jason "JASON.MAC100" McConnon: 
On a board of 
, ace-queen high was good enough to earn the pot.
Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker flipped with his short stack and got it in holding the 
out of the big blind. Button raiser "zalikyahta86" looked him up with the 
and the 
board improved Muehloecker to a pair of kings.
Assorted shorter stacks can be found below.
Defending champion Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza had a tough last hour and dropped to fewer than one third of the starting stack. Following a button raise to 7,630 by Christopher "Apotheosis92" Kruk, Speranza jammed the small blind for 73,223 and was called by Kruk.
Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza: 
Christopher "Apotheosis92" Kruk: 
The board came 
and Speranza then re-entered, taking over the seat that became available after the elimination of Timothy "Tim0thee" Adams. Speranza's former seat was then taken over by Marton "noirduck" Czuczor.
Germany's "GlitchSytem" raised to 7,420 and was called by Timothy "Tim0thee" Adams from one seat over and Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira in the big blind. The trio checked through the 
flop and Ferreira led the 
turn for 13,805, picking up two calls.
After the river, the action checked to Adams and he pushed for the last 81,345. Ferreira folded and "GlitchSystem" quickly called to get shown the 
for trips tens by Adams. "GlitchSystem" held 
for a full house and sent Adams packing for now.
Level: 8
Blinds: 1,750/3,500
Ante: 450
According to the tournament lobby on PokerStars, there are 345 players out of 423 entries remaining and the fourth scheduled break of 5 minutes will kick off once all current hands are completed.
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg on the button tangled with "t4t0PAGAU" in the small blind when the former raised to 6,600 and the latter three-bet to 25,500, which Spragg called. "t4t0PAGAU" bet the 
flop for 14,250 and Spragg came along to the 
turn on which "t4t0PAGAU" fired a second barrel for 58,500.
The 
came on the river and "t4t0PAGAU" now checked, which prompted the shove of Spragg for 137,782 in total. That ended up forcing a fold and the pot was pushed to the PokerStars ambassador and online streamer.
Among those to bust recently was also BBZ Staking prodigy Jordan “bigbluffzinc” Drummond, who got his last 82,000 and change in preflop with the 
. "42ayay" called in the small blind with the and the superior kicker prevailed on a 
boad.
Also on the rail for now are former runner-up Ihar "OMGitshunt" Soika and former champion Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro, both are expected to re-enter again.
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