Rauno Tahvonen is starting to make waves in this tournament. The Estonian just made a sharp call against Christopher Yong, holding nothing but a measly third pair with a bad kicker. Yong had a busted flush draw and lost over 150,000 in the hand to Tahvonen.
Francis Foord-Brown will be going into the dinner break as the chipleader. Foord-Brown won two big hands to move him up to one million.
In one hand, Foord-Brown got three streets of value with pocket aces against pocket queens, in the other hand he rivered a set of nines against top two pair. Besides that, Foord-Brown is running good in coinflip situations today, as he told PokerNews just before the break.
Matt Perrins open-shoved around 150,000 in late position. It was folded to Christopher Yong in the big blind, who snap-called after looking at his cards.
Matt Perrins:
Christopher Yong:
The WSOP bracelet winner failed to improve on a board, sending him to the rail in 34rd place.
Super short stack Hannu Matala Aho was eliminated on another table and finished 35th.
Nicholas Hennessy's foray to the feature table turned out disastrous, as the former chipleader suddenly found himself standing at the rail after losing two massive hands.
In the first hand, Hennessy lost an 800,000 flip with against . Shortly thereafter Hennessey moved in for 328,000 with , only to be looked up by Fabio Miranda's . The board failed to provide help and just like that, Hennessy's 700k stack was gone.
Kevin Barden raised to 21,000 in middle position. Sean Sullivan shoved his stack of around 100,000 on the button and Barden called to put Sullivan at risk.
Kevin Barden:
Sean Sullivan:
The board ran out to counterfeit Sullivan's pair of sixes. The Brit finished 32nd.
The eliminations are still following each other up in short fashion. Norbert Laszlo, Robert Haigh and Adrien Allain were the latest to fall. Each of them received £2,720 for their deep run in the Main Event.
Dutch cash gamer Maurice Schinkel was between ten and twenty big blinds for the past few hours. When Zoltan Barabas opened to 23,000 in middle position. Schinkel shoved around 80,000 and Barabas quickly added the extra chips.
Zoltan Barabas:
Maurice Schinkel:
Schinkel hit a massive flop in , but failed to hit his outs on the turn and river. The last Dutchman hit the rail in 27th place.
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board, sending him to the rail in 34rd place.
against 
to counterfeit Sullivan's pair of sixes. The Brit finished 32nd.
, but failed to hit his outs on the 
turn and 
river. The last Dutchman hit the rail in 27th place.
