Jordan Bamford had previously doubled to nearly two times the starting stack but his media ticket was just handed over and the seat on his former table was empty. Now holding a bigger stack on it is Valdir Cordeiro Dos Santos, who was also on Day 2 of the High Roller as well.
Victor Ilyukhin was all-in with a shorter stack of 11,100 and David Lopez Llacer looked him up with the 
. That was well behind the 
of Ilyukhin but the Spaniard got there on the 
board with a pair of treys.
A short-stacked Vladimir Minko was at risk for just 12,100 with the 
and Paul Dando looked him up with the 
. Minko was excited for a second when he saw an ace in the window on the 
flop but Dando was in the lead with two pair. Nothing changed on the 
turn and the 
river, sending Minko to the rail.
The £2,200 High Roller is down to the final eight players including the PokerStars ambassadors Ramon Colillas and Ben Spragg. Also still in contention are Jamie Nixon and Jack O'Neill.
In the meanwhile, the fellow red spade representatives Sam Grafton and Parker Talbot have jumped into Day 1a of the £1,100 Main Event. They had mixed success with Grafton holding nearly two times the starting stack while Talbot was last spotted all-in with a short stack. He got it all-in with eights versus eights and chopped.
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By accident, Joseph Lalor raised to 6,000 and then looked up an opponent with 
. The player at risk turned over the 
and found no help on the 
runout.
In the last hand of the previous level, Joe Laming faced a min-raise from early position and moved all-in for 7,100 on the button. David Sakhai moved all-in for the last 8,100 in the small blind and the initial raiser asked for a count. "I should call but I won't, I have king-queen," he said and mucked the cards thereafter.
Joe Laming: 
David Sakhai:
The board ran out 
and the ace on the turn spelled the end for Laming.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Four ways to the 
turn, James Gold bet 7,000 and received just one caller in Dritan Arapi. The 
on the river was checked by both as Gold took a long before opting to do so and Arapi checked behind. Gold tabled the 
for a set of tens and Arapi was about to send his cards into the muck.
He revealed them very briefly and slid them further towards the middle of the table, mentioning "I had a pair and missed the flush". All of a sudden, he said "wait a second" and grabbed them back before turning over the for the second nuts.
"I entered three times," Arapi sighed as he raked in the pot.
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