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Like a quality timepiece, Scott Aitchison can take a hit and keep on going.
After getting cooled off by Mike Davis earlier, Aitchison found a big hand just in time, flipping with jacks against 
preflop and fading all trouble to double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000 | 36,000 |
Adam Foster has been winning all the pots at his table of late, including the one where he busted Jeffery Hobrecker with jacks over tens all in preflop a minute ago.
As a result, Foster just became the first player over 100,000 and has vaulted into the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
101,000 | 101,000 |
|
Busted |
Tony Dojka called a preflop raise and check-called two bullets through to the river on a queen-high board with three spades.
He took the lead for more than half the pot in the final betting round and got a fold, allowing him to climb up to a spot near the top of the leaderboard without showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
78,500 | 13,500 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Scott Aitchison and Mike Davis joined another player going three-ways to an 
flop for 2,600.
Aitchison and Davis traded raises until Davis was all in holding aces up with the 
. Aitchison had the 
for top pair and a flush draw, but was on the wrong end of this cooler with Davis fading everything on the turn and river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
71,000 | 56,000 |
|
|
29,000 | -24,000 |
Seneca Niagara tournament crusher Todd Saffron has vaulted into the lead now.
One player tried to slow play aces, limping in. Saffron came along for the ride with the 
, flopped trip sixes and busted him.
Not too long after another player tried to punish a few limpers, jamming the for 11,000. Saffron had two tens, looked him up, and took him out after a board of bricks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
81,000 | 16,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Tony Dojka is among the leaders now, after flushing one opponents stack out. The rest of the group includes the players listed below:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
72,000 | 10,000 |
|
67,000 | 15,000 |
|
|
65,000 | 8,000 |
|
65,000 | 17,500 |
|
|
65,000 | 65,000 |
|
|
65,000 | 25,000 |
|
64,000 | 5,100 |
|
|
53,000 | 23,000 |
|
47,000 | 5,000 |
|
42,300 | 8,300 |
|
29,000 | 14,000 |
|
26,200 | 11,200 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Toronto, Ontario, Canada's John Araujo has busted three people on the way to a chip leading stack.
He even made a Royal Fush, getting one player's stack in the middle during that hand, and will head into Level 9 setting the pace on the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
62,000 |
