A raise to 525 from Craig McCorkell under the gun was met with calls from Richard Trigg on the button and Daniel McAulay in the big blind. All three players checked their option on the flop and did the same on the turn. McAulay led for 1,000 on the river, folding out McCorkell, but Trigg looked him up.
Elior Sion raised to 600 from under the gun and sparked a flurry of callers to his left. Billy Chattaway in the hijack, Adrian Mateos on the button, Senh Ung in the small blind and Jason Wheeler in the big blind made for a five-way contested pot.
Everyone checked to Mateos on the flop, he bet 2,000 and only Sion called. Another five, the landed on the turn and Sion checked to Mateos, and the dangerous Spaniard bet 5,000. Again, Sion called.
The fifth and final community card was the and Sion checked once more. Mateos placed three 5,000 chips in front of him, and Sion called that 15,000 only to be shown for trip fives a hand he couldn't beat, leaving Mateos to climb to 77,000.
There are now 25 players in their seats thanks to the addition of Kuljinder Sidhu. This has caused a break in the tables and the 25 hopefuls are now spread across four tables, with Simon Deadman leading from the front.
We said earlier that Terry Jordon plays an unorthodox style and he's proved us correct. We just caught him all-in for his last 10,500 chips from the small blind with on a flop versus the of Sergio Aido. A on the turn propelled Jordon into the lead and the river kept him there.
American grinder, Jason Wheeler, raised to 750 from the cutoff and faced some resistance in the shape of Stacy Coore on the button who three-bet to 2,250. The small blind mucked, but Chattaway stuck in a four-bet to 5,450. Wheeler quickly folded, and Coore followed suit, showing the as he did so. Chattaway responded by showing the as he scooped the pot.
We've been chatting with Terry Jordon and Simon Deadman and discovered how the latter accumulated his big stack, which involved the former losing most of his chips.
Jordon informed us that he got his chips in with verus Deadman's on a board to lose all but 10,000 chips, which then went into the middle in the hand against Sergio Aido that we caught.
Richard Trigg is up to 64,000 chips following a short but profitable hand versus Kuljinder Sidhu and David Lopez.
It was Trigg who opened the betting, raising to 1,000 from early position and being called by Lopez in the cutoff and then being raised by Sidhu in the small blind, Sidhu's raise being to 2,350. Both Trigg and Lopez called the squeeze and the pot started to build.
A flop reading was checked around by all three players, with Sidhu also checking the arrival of the turn. Trigg took a stab at the pot with a 3,500 bet and it was enough to fold out both of his opponents, leaving him to rake in the pot.
The action passed to Daniel Merrilees in the hijack and he min-raised to 800. A couple of folds later and it was Terry Jordon's turn to act and he three-bet to 2,500. Merrilees called and the dealer spread the flop and both players checked. Jordon checked the turn, Merrilees bet 3,500 and Jordon folded, flipping over the as he did so.