Chris Hunichen raised from early position and was called by Jonathan Little in the big blind. "BigHuni" fired on all three streets of a board and Little check-called bets of 700, 1,450 and 4,000. Hunichen turned over for a rivered pair of kings instead of the flush draw and that was good enough.
One hand later, Little knocked out short stack Vitek Pesta in the seat next to him with versus on a board of . Besta only had a few big blinds left after previously losing the majority of the stack with pocket nines against pocket kings.
In the very last hand before the second break, Alexander Lakhov raised from under the gun and found one caller before Michael Telker three-bet out of the big blind. Only Lakhov called that to see the flop of . The Russian got his stack of 29,000 chips into the middle of the table after a raising war with Telker and the American called with pocket aces including the .
Lakhov had for the open ended straight flush draw and improved thanks to the on the turn. The river was a blank and Telker needs another short stack miracle.
Stephen Chidwick raised to 825 and got called by David Peters in the small blind. Petr Targa three-bet to what looked like 2,400 and only Peters called that. The American check-called a bet of 2,250 on the flop and both players checked the on the turn. Peters checked the on the river as well and was then sent into the think tank after Targa made it 6,050 to go.
Eventually the American called and quickly mucked when he was shown by Targa.
Michael Telker already shoved all in a couple of times at the start of level five without getting called. He then got the remainder of his stack in with on the turn of a board. Alexander Lakhov on the button had an easy call with and Telker was already drawing dead before the river.
In the first hand Phillip McAllister raised to 650 and was called by the player in the big blind to check through the flop. On the turn, the player in the big blind bet 700 and took down the pot.
One hand later, McAllister called a raise to 700 and November Niner Felix Stephensen three-bet to 2,150. Manuel Hoffmann four-bet to 5,350 in the cutoff and scared off all opponents.
Alexander Lakhov raised to 1,200 and called a three-bet to 3,000 by Georges Khoury. On the flop there was no action and Khoury then bet 4,000 on the turn. Lakhov raised to 11,000 and called the squeeze to 22,000 by Khoury.
The on the river completed the board the Lebanese checked. Lakhov moved all in and Khoury called off with a set of sixes, Lakhov had pocket kings with the for the second nut flush.
Joining the action on the turn, Martin Sousek check-called a bet of 3,000 by Ka Kwan Lau and then bet 5,400 on the river. Lau called and Sousek immediately mucked his cards, the Spaniard showed him the .