With only 11 players remaining, the tournament has one six-handed and one five-handed table playing. The five-handed table has seen the vast majority of the action settled preflop, with Dan Stacey, Michael Fletcher and Paren Arzoomanian being the more aggressive of the quintet.
One hand that made it to the flop saw Stacey raise to 33,000 from under the gun, Christopher Knights call in the small blind and Arzoomanian make it 105,000 to go from the big blind. Stacey called, Knights folded and the dealer spread the flop.
Arzoomanian continued with a 105,000 bet and Stacey flicked his cards back to the dealer.
Paren Arzoomanian opened to 30,000 from the cutoff and Daniel Stacey three bet to 82,000 from the button. Both blinds folded and Arzoomanian called. He checked on and Stacey made a c-bet of 62,000. Arzoomanian check raised to 130,000 and Stacey quickly released. Arzoomanian showed .
Stacey opened the cutoff to 33,000 the next hand and John Lawson three bet to 65,000 from the small blind. The big blind released and Stacey called. Both players checked the flop and the hit the turn. Lawson bet out 60,000 and Stacey folded.
Despite losing these two three bet pots, Daniel Stacey is still up to around 2.4 million. He's clearly not in the mood for folding right now, he's involved in most of the pots.
John Lawson opened the button and both blinds called. Small blind Christopher Knights and big blind Paren Arzoomanian checked on and Lawson bet out 60,000. Just Knights made the call, Arzoomanian folded.
Knights check called another 80,000 on the turn and a third six appeared on the river; . Knights checked a third time and Lawson checked behind. Lawson showed for the flopped set and turned full house, and Knights mucked.
Christopher Knights is the 11th place finisher in the UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event.
Paren Arzoomanian opened to 40,000 from under the gun and was called by Michael Fletcher on the button and Knights in the big blind. Knights proceeded to overbet shove for 312,000 on the flop, Arzoomanian called and Fletcher folded; Fletcher took around one minute to muck his hand.
Arzoomanian flipped over and Knights . The turn failed to alter the course of the hand, as didn't the river, which sent Knights to the rail and Arzoomanian to the top of the chip counts.
Joe Grech has bust in 10th place in two lethal hands, although it was the first hand that did almost all the damage to his stack.
Grech raised from the button and then called when Elliott Hayes three-bet all-in for 420,000. Grech turned over and was ahead of Hayes' . The flop kept that fact true, but the turn left Grech needing to spike one of the two remaining queens in the deck. The river was not one of them and Grech lost all but 26,000 of his chips.
After folding one hand, Grech moved all-in under the gun and was called by Hayes to his direct left and James Walsh in the big blind.
The active players checked the flop, but Walsh led for 25,000 on the turn. Both players checked the turn and the cards were turned onto their backs.
Grech:
Walsh:
Hayes:
Hayes won the pot with two pair and Grech headed to the cashier's desk.
Paren Arzoomanian raised under the gun to 45,000 and James Walsh called from the big blind. Both players checked the flop and the hit the turn. Short stack Walsh fired 50,000 and Arzoomanian smooth called. The river came the and Walsh now checked. Arzoomanian bet 225,000 to put Walsh all in and the Irishman folded. Arzoomanian showed for the flopped full house.
The next hand Michael Fletcher opened the button for 45,000. Walsh shoved from the small blind for 90,000 exactly and Arzoomanian folded his big blind. Fletcher called with and was up against . The ace king of Walsh held up with the board reading . Double up!
Craigh Sewell found himself short stacked and made his move from early position. He shoved all in for his last 279,000 and soon got called by Michael Fletcher.
Sewell showed and was up against Fletcher's .
The flop was a devastating one for Sewell; . He needed runner runner diamonds or an eight, but would get neither. Instead the and popped up and just like that, the final table was set.
The bagging and tagging begun soon after, while Craig Sewell made his way to the pay out desk to collect his £2,710. The remaining eight players return tomorrow for the Final Table and are all guaranteed £3,307.
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