Panayiotis Giannakopoulos first doubled with 10♥3♥ against the A♦Q♥ of Dhinesh Soopramanien when he got there on the 9♦9♥3♣J♣6♠ board.
He then knocked out Nic Ioannoy who got it in with A♣Q♠ on the K♠7♥4♣8♠Q♥ board. Giannakopoulos was just waiting for that move as he had turned a straight with the 6♣5♣.
"I know how to build the stack, now I just have to keep it," Giannakopoulos said.
Zash Ebrahim limped in and Cliton Taliwanth raised to 3,200, Vishal Ghoorbin called in the big blind and Ebrahim came along. On the K♣K♠10♠ flop, the action checked to Taliwanth and his bet of 3,600 won the pot.
Sheldon Grove was already all-in and awaiting his fate when Warren Zackey as well as Joachim Aucamp were still active. They checked down the K♣10♥8♠8♦ turn and K♥ river.
"I needed a queen or seven," Grove said and tabled the J♦9♠. Zackey had the 10♣8♣ for a full house and Aucamp mucked J♣9♥.
Grove was eliminated and bought back in shortly after.
David Ng raised to 2,600 and was called only by Kade Ollewagen in the big blind. They checked the 6♥5♣2♦ flop and Ollewagen bet the 4♥ turn for 1,600, Ng called. Ollewagen bet another 6,000 on the K♦ river and Ng reluctantly called.
Ollewagen tabled 5♥3♥ for a straight and Ng grinned "why doesn't the heart come" as he exposed his K♥10♥.
Level: 8
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
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Seven levels have wrapped up for Day 1d and the field of 135 entries has been sent into a 60-minute dinner break with around 75 players remaining. Action will resume at approximately 6:23 p.m. local time with another three levels of late registration.
Joachim Aucamp arrived with a new entry and put the chips to use right away, jamming the J♣5♣. Cliton Taliwanth looked him up with the K♦Q♦ and held on a board opf 9♠7♠4♦4♠9♥.
Aucamp got up from his chair, then crashed on the ground from the rapid movement and needed a short while to recover. Once he did, he re-entered into the same seat and open-jammed the 9♥3♣. Zash Ebrahim took the "flip" with 3♥3♦ and doubled on a A♠Q♠10♦7♥A♣ runout. Aucamp had very few chips left and busted right before dinner.
With some 25,000 in the middle to the 9♥6♥3♠ flop, Gavin Sardini faced a bet of 12,000 by the player in the hijack and moved all-in for 33,700. He received a reluctant call and nodded, exposing the A♦J♥ only. He was up against A♥9♠ and needed help to survive.
Nothing changed with the 3♥ turn but the 5Js] river brought a miracle double.
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