Darren Mapley raised to 9,000 and received three callers to see a flop of . The action was folded back to the initial preflop aggressor and a continuation bet of 20,000 did the trick in order to scoop the pot. Mapley is one of several players around 300,000 chips, thriving for the lead.
After a flop of , Erion Tota had spiked the up and down straight draw and got his stack in via a raising war against Chan Ha's . The on the turn immediately made things clear and the meaningless river was just a formality.
Both Sandra Reid's and Gabriel Tuna's media card have found their way to the media desk and their previous table is broken, whereas Lucio Pacifico has pulled off an incredible comeback and is up to 275,000 chips all of a sudden.
After starting as average stack, Aleksandar Spadijer then almost tripled his initial stack before falling down to where he started. Two minutes ago we heard a "seat open" announced and the Montenegrin left the tournament area after packing his belongings.
Richard Wheatley was all in for his tournament life with and got called by an opponent with . There was no help until the river, which gave Wheatley the higher pair and crucial double up.
After a flop of , the action was checked to Alexandra O'Brien and she bet 15,000. Kenny King called and Gary Pearce folded before the fell on the turn. King bet 22,000 and was called before moving all in after the river. It was 30,600 to call and O'Brien didn't seem to happy, fearing the ace on the board.
After asking whether or not King would show if she folds, she didn't get any more reads and eventually tossed her cards into the muck. King did her the favor and flipped over the , which then relieved O'Brien as she told her opponent to have folded pocket kings.
Jeraint "JJ" Hazan and Kelly Ann Saxby were two other players nearby that checked what was going on after the last hand of the level took a few minutes into the dinner break.
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Jamal Gormati had lost some chips to Kelly Ann Saxby just before the dinner break and now dropped another 40,000 chips to a short stack after failing to crack the of the opponent.