On a flop of , Jonas Ketelsen bet 13,000 in late position and Honglin Jiang on the button raised to 40,000, which Ketelsen called.
The turn was checked through and the river brought a bet of 36,000 by Ketelsen. Jiang called and was shown for a pair of aces, with Jiang had beat with for flopped two pair.
The remaining 51 players have been sent into a 15-minute break, after that the table of Laurent Polito, Preben Stokkan and [Removed:402] will be moved to the feature table.
Thomas Cazayous defended his big blind against a button raise by Nicolas Proust and the action went to the turn. Cazayous checked and called a bet of 24,000. On the river, Cazayous checked and called Proust bet of 34,000 to see Proust turn over a bluff with the . Cazayous had that beat with and won the pot.
Three players were all in and at risk at different tables. Juan Ares Gozalo doubled through Orestis Kanakopoulos while Markus Heikkila and Aaron Woodcock both busted.
Heikkila shoved for around 40,000 with and Thomas Cazayous in the small blind called with , the board came and the Swede was gone.
Aaron Woodcock was all in with the and John Wind called from one seat over with the . "Please fan it slowly," Woodcock said and the flop left him drawing to a miracle with running treys only. It was all over on the turn and the river was a formality.
One player busted over on the feature table and you can see what happened in some 25 minutes from now. The field has been reduced to 48 players and a table broke to get six tables of eight players each on the money bubble with hand-for-hand mode getting underway momentarily.
On the tail end of a board , Bhavin Khatri faced a bet of 35,500 by Jussi Vanhanen and called to see the Finn roll over for a rivered straight to bump his stack above half a million.
While the eliminations in the first two levels and first half of the third level came quite quickly, the action has screeched to a halt now. Barely and hands go past the flop and no major chip changes are taking place.
On the river of a board , Jeremy Saderne bet 20,000 out of the small blind and fellow Frenchman Thomas Cazayous eventually folded, he was shown the by Saderne.
One hand later both clashed again and Cazayous bet the turn for 40,000, Saderne called on the button. The river was checked through and Cazayous showed , Saderne raked in the second pot in a row with for two pair.