Two shorter stacks clashed in George Boustani and Minh Tran with the former at risk for around 7,300 with the . Tran was trailing with the but got there on the flop of a board .
Vesko Zmukic check-called a bet of 1,200 by Patrick Yazbeck on the turn while Connie Graham folded. The on the river was checked again by Zmukic and he called another bet of 2,400.
"Good call, I have nothing, flushdraw," Yazbeck said as Zmukic tabled his to scoop the pot.
Shortly after doubling up, Hun Wei Lee called Mark Leslie's shove for just under 10,000 from the hijack while sitting in the big blind himself with the shorter stack.
Hun Wei Lee:
Mark Leslie:
The board ran out for Leslie to hold with the higher pocket pair to eliminate the defending champion for now.
Lee made his way off the feature table stage for his old seat to be taken by Minh Nguyen.
On the heads-up turn of , Hamish Crawshaw bet just over 3,000 and Shivan Abdine called to see the on the river with around 7,000 behind. Crawshaw moved all in and Abdine called it off to get shown the by Crawshaw.
Abdine nodded, briefly flashed his for top pair and headed to the rail.
Julien Sitbon raised to 700 from the hijack and Nurlan Boobekov defended his big blind.
The flop came , Boobekov check-called the 500 bet of Sitbon.
The turn brought them the , Boobekov checked again and now Sitbon fired a bet of 5,000 over the line to put Boobekov all-in. Boobekov took a second or two before opting to fold.