With the board reading , Chad Batista check-called his opponent's bets of 1,000, 1,650 and 4,500, the online pro confessing, "This will be the worst call ever made" before making the call on the river.
His opponent's was enough, as Batista quickly mucked.
Randy Lowery has pulled back the gap on current chip leader Lee Watkinson. Watkinson is still leading the pack with 46,200, but Lowery is just inches behind with 44,000.
Meanwhile, the likes of Clonie Gowen, Steve Paul-Ambrose and Mickey Appleman are all still clinging on with less than their starting stacks.
Dario Minieri raised it up to 800 from late position and received four callers. On the flop, one of those callers bet 1,300, before smooth-calling Minieri's reraise to 5,900.
Upon the turn hitting the felt, the aggressor pushed all in immediately, which subsequently led to Minieri calling the clock on himself whilst he decided what to do.
Minieri used up every second of that one remaining minute before his hand was finally scooped into the muck. No cards were shown.
A recent elimination is that of gold knuckle duster-wearing UK poker legend and former safe-cracker Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott. All in preflop, his pocket ladies were no good against Randy Lowery's pocket kings, with no help from the board. Lowery now up to 44,000.
Giganto-stack Lee Watkinson just won't let another player win a hand -- he's now further expanded his stack to 55,000.
He raised to 1,000 from the cutoff and the big blind reraised to 3,000; Watkinson called.
They checked it down to the river of the board when the big blind bet out 3,000. Watkinson called with for ace high -- and his opponent could only muster for queen high.
Keith Lehr was caught semi-bluffing an open-ended straight draw, his on an board snap-called by his opponent's . Sadly for his opponent, a arrived on the river to give Lehr a timely double through. He's now on 14,000 in chips.