Defending champion John Thomson, Aaron Li and Shivan Abdine were among those to bust. The new big stacks are Majid Saab and Charlie Hawes, with the former just winning a small pot on the river of a board 
. Facing a bet of 3,000, Saab raised to 14,000 and his opponent tank-folded to get shown 
for the nut flush.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Andrew White shoved from under the gun for 14,900 and Terence A Clee called from the early position while the rest of the table folded.
Andrew White: 
Terence A Clee: 
The flop came 
with the ace in the window.
The turn brought them the 
which gave Clee a Broadway draw but the river completed the board with the 
for White ti make trips to double up.
Terence A Clee had raised from mid-position and Timo Hettinger shoved for 37,700 on the button. The blinds folded and Clee called immediately.
Timo Hettinger: 
Terence A Clee: 
The board ran out 
for Hettinger to stay ahead and improve to a full house to double up.
On the heads-up turn of 
, Robert Spano checked and called a bet of 4,000 by Jake Mehmet to see the 
on the river. Spano check-called another bet of 7,500 and mucked when Mehmet tabled 
for a straight.
"Next time give me a nine," Spano joked in table chat.
Vincent Huang raised to 3,200 from the cutoff and was called by both Matthew Wakeman on the button and Andrew White in the big blind.
They all checked through the 
flop to the on the turn. White bet 3,500 and Huang raised to 15,500. Wakeman quickly folded and White looked at his cards once more before opting to fold.
Jason Gray raised to 4,000 from under the gun and Vincent Huang called in the early position. Action folded to Ehsan Amiri on the button who shoved for 30,900. The blinds quickly folded and Gray decided to also shove for 44,800. Huang took his time to think it all through but made the call in the end.
Ehsan Amiri: 
Jason Gray: 
Vincent Huang: 
The flop came 
for Amiri to hit two pair but it also gave a flush draw to both Gray and Huang.
The turn brought them the which didn't change things, neither did the 
on the river as Amiri tripled up and the remainder of Gray's stack was sent Huang's way.
Majid Saab called a bet of 3,500 by Gary Benson on the heads-up turn of 
and they ended up checking the river, which saw Benson turn over the 
for a full house to win the pot.
Benson appears to be the current chip leader, however, Corey Kempson is not far behind one table over. Kempson just won a decent pot off Andrej Senic when an unfortunate runout on the 
board killed any river action.
"Kings," Kempson announced and his 
were good enough to win the pot.
In the last hand, before the level went up, the flop read 
with just over 6,000 in the middle already.
Michael O'Grady checked in the big blind and Rory Young bet 2,600 from under the gun. O'Grady raised to 7,600 and Young called.
The turn brought them the 
, O'Grady took over the initiative and bet 4,700 which Young called.
The river completed the board with the , O'Grady led out for 6,900 and Young took his time to consider his options.
After a while, O'Grady turned around, swung his legs up on the spare seats between them and sat back. "Rory, hurry up, you've played 4 million hands, and now you're thinking for his long?"
Young smiled: "What do you have?"
"F*ck all," O'Grady responded immediately.
Young glanced at O'Grady but didn't act yet.
"Are you trying to read my body language?" O'Grady asked. "What does it say?" he added.
"I am just admiring your shoes," Young replied.
After some more banter back and forth, O'Grady decided to call the clock.
The dealer asked O'Grady to confirm and he replied: "Yeah, why not?"
The floor came over and gave Young 40 seconds to make a decision.
On the 20-second warning, Young made the call but mucked when O'Grady tabled for top pair.
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