The post bubble madness continues with all-in showdowns every other minute. Among those to end up at risk was also Sandro Burkhard, who raised to 12,000 and then four-bet jammed from an early position against the three-bet by Henrik Hecklen. The snap-call of the Dane followed and that led to the following showdown.
Sandro Burkhard:
Henrik Hecklen:
The board kept the kings in the lead and sent Burkhard to the payout desk.
Dean Clay had been among several players to get through the bubble with a very short stack and he then jammed for the last 19,000. It folded all the way to table big stack Tom Hall in the big blind, who made the call.
Dean Clay:
Tom Hall:
Neither player hit anything on the board and that spelled the end for Clay.
It didn't take long for the first players to get their chips in preflop and the first of them was Thales Filho, who was at risk with the . Kully Sidhu took the flip with the and got there on the board to eliminate the Brazilian as the first player in the money.
Antoine Saout raised from the hijack and then called the all-in of Antonis Poulengeris in the cutoff for the last 18,000.
Antonis Poulengeris:
Antoine Saout:
The flop left Poulengeris in dire shape but the turn provided a flush draw. However, the bubble burst on the river to send all 95 remaining players into the money.
The T-500 chips will be raced off during the 20-minute break and the tournament remains on the money bubble as the first break of the day has kicked off.
In the last hand of the level, there was an all-in showdown on the bubble but barely any players had stuck around and already gone on break. Conor O'Driscoll had raised in the cutoff and then called the shove by Raul Lozano on the button for 53,500.
Raul Lozano:
Conor O'Driscoll:
The superior kicker locked up the double on the turn of a board and Lozano remained in contention.
Mauricio Ferreira Pais is the chip leader on the money bubble and a medium-sized pot unfolded on his table. On an ace-high board, Boris Progner called a bet worth 57,000 by Tim Slater and they knuckled the river. Slater tabled the to win the pot with top pair and top kicker, mentioning "you could have something like ace-six" which would have made two pair.
In the meanwhile, Paul Grummitt check-called a bet of 22,000 by Alex Jennings on a completed board of and instantly rolled over his . Jennings had been the last aggressor but mucked as Grummitt won the pot and forfeited the hand information.
After breaking a table to balance the field across eight-handed tables on the money bubble, the action has commenced in hand-for-hand mode. Unlike in previous years, no set amount of time will be deducted from the clock and there are fewer than ten minutes left in the level.