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Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis doubled after his re-entry and Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas chipped up some on the second bullet, too.
Veldhuis then raised the button and "caipsa" went for the stop-and-go with six big blinds and flat-called in the big blind before getting the last four blinds in after the ![]()
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flop, Veldhuis called with ![]()
to get shown ![]()
for a flush by his opponent.
The
turn and
river kept the player from Peru in contention.

| Player | Chips | Progress |
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488,659
290,506
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290,506 |
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268,125
268,125
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268,125 |
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212,478
44,347
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44,347 |
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68,558
25,910
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25,910 |
The first two players to jump above four times the starting stack are Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel and Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling with the former hitting a set to eliminate Cassio "cassiopak" Kiles
Kiles had min-raised to 10,000 and Carrel came along out of the big blind. Carrel check-raised a ![]()
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flop to 26,150 and checked the
on the turn which prompted a bet of 47,500 by Kiles, Carrel just called. Carrel then check-called a shove for more than 145,000 on the
river with ![]()
and Kiles could only reveal ![]()
for a pair of kings.

| Player | Chips | Progress |
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1,078,704
358,842
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358,842 |
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1,037,486
264,195
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264,195 |
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Several big names bowed out recently including Pedro "PaDiLhA SP" Padilha, Tom "hitthehole" Middleton, PokerStars ambassador Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas, and Preben "prebz" Stokkan.
Also on the rail is Brazil's "copag holdem" after they ran with ![]()
into the ![]()
of "fers223". The board came ![]()
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and top set earned the pot for the player from Finland.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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325,319
325,319
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325,319 |
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250,000
250,000
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250,000 |
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Level: 10
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 625
Viktor "papan9_$" Ustimov and Pablo "pabritz" Brito busted and the latter had already been on his second bullet for the day.
Brito's second attempt ended when Simon "simon1471" Higgins raised to 8,400 and "uwintakeit" called. Brito three-bet to 46,000 in the big blind and Higgins called before folding to the shove of "uwintakeit" and the call" of Brito.
Pablo "pabritz" Brito: ![]()
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"uwintakeit": ![]()
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On a board of ![]()
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, Brito caught no help and re-entered for the second time to the very same seat after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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913,975
57,038
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57,038 |
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904,902
293,824
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293,824 |
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438,522
8,180
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8,180 |
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319,876
319,876
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319,876 |
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300,090
300,090
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300,090 |
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211,500
19,600
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19,600 |
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158,584
158,584
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158,584 |
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133,989
154,137
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154,137 |
Brazil's "caipsa" limp-raised to 36,000 for the vast majority of his stack and Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich in the small blind raised to 20,000 and called the shove for fewer than 11 big blinds in total.
"caipsa": ![]()
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Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich: ![]()
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On a board of ![]()
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, both paired their kicker and "caipsa" secured the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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484,892
484,892
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484,892 |
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383,369
35,416
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35,416 |
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278,682
278,682
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278,682 |
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229,978
229,978
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229,978 |
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198,153
46,372
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46,372 |
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94,468
94,468
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94,468 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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856,937
96,673
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96,673 |
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773,291
8,113
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8,113 |
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768,263
284,878
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284,878 |
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727,903
727,903
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727,903 |
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719,862
44,745
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44,745 |
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702,862
150,543
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150,543 |
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669,038
186,296
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186,296 |
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667,396
59,175
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59,175 |
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654,495
158,260
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158,260 |
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627,569
406,511
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406,511 |
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622,554
111,579
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111,579 |
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618,564
294,569
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294,569 |
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599,899
89,946
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89,946 |
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595,319
118,232
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118,232 |
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590,981
325,171
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325,171 |
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590,090
590,090
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590,090 |
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Level: 9
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Thanks to 306 entries thus far, the guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million has already been surpassed and the remaining 263 players are on their third 5-minute break of the day.