Just before the break Jon Kalmar was involved in a huge hand that led to him being eliminated from the tournament.
On a board of and already with 30,000 in the pot, Serj Markarian led out for 10,000 before Kalmar moved all in for 37,775 in total.
Markarian went into the tank, and asked the floor staff if he would receive a penalty if he exposed his cards. After being told he would receive a penalty, he decided to make the call and tabled for two pair but trailed the for a set of deuces for Kalmar.
However the river landed the to give both players a full house, but Markarian's threes full of aces were good against Kalmar's deuces full of threes.
Kalmar won't be able to repeat his final table performance of last year as he heads to the exit, while Markarian is up to 115,000 chips.
Sitting in the Orange 3 seat 2 is John Part, who is the current PDC World Darts Champion. He is from Toronto Canada and has several world championship in darts.
A player makes a standard raise from early position and the player next to him calls. Joe Hachem calls from middle position.
The flop is and everyone checks. The turn is and everyone checks. The river is and the EP player bets 5,000. The other EP player calls and Hachem folds. EP 2 shows and EP 1 shows to take it down. "You have no idea how many outs I had there," says Hachem. He's down to 37,000.
Five players including Burt Boutin and Brian Rast limped in and saw a flop. Boutin bet 1,500 and the action folded to Rast, who raised to 11,500, nearly enough to put Boutin all in. After a bit of a think, Boutin showed and folded.
"Come on, Burt. How can you call that? Either you make a bad call and maybe get there or you're drawing stone dead," offered Rast as he dragged the pot.
Michael Martin just eliminated an opponent when his cracked the shorter-stacked player's . Martin flopped a four, and they got it all in the middle thereafter.
Frankie O'Dell had taken some early hits and had ground back up to his starting stack of 20,000 when this hand came up.
O'Dell opened for 1,500, a middle-position player raised to 3,200, the button flat-called and O'Dell called. The flop was and the action was checked around. The turn was the . O'Dell checked, the MP player checked, the button bet 8,000, O'Dell moved all in for 18,000, the MP player folded and the button called.
O'Dell turned up for a set, having out-flopped the button's . The river was the and O'Dell raked in the pot, doubling his stack to 40,000.
Ramzi Jelassi, Jim Bechtel and two other players saw a raised flop of .
It was checked to the original aggressor Bechtel, who continued with a 6,000 bet. Noone else was interested except Jelassi, who raised it up to 16,000 and Bechtel moved all in for 3,475 more. Ramzi made the auto-call with . Bechtel turned over for a flush draw with overcards.
The turn and river didn't help Bechtel, though, giving Ramzi a healthy-sized pot and Bechtel the exit instructions. Jelassi is on 64,500 now.
Preflop, a player in the cutoff position raised to 1,175 and Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,000. Her opponent called and they saw a flop.
On a flop of , Michelle bet out 6,000 and her opponent raised all in. Michelle made the call. Michelle held and her opponent held . Her opponent needed a jack, nine, or ten. The turn of the helped neither player and the on the river allowed Michelle to double up to 42,700.
A female player in early position pushed all in, and a male player reraised all in behind her. The action was on Rolf Slotboom.
"So... I want you to stay," he said, pointing to the woman. "And I'm scared of you," he said, pointing the man. "So I'm gonna fold." And he did, showing A-K as he did so.
Turned out to be a good decision, as the fellow held pocket jacks and managed to make a set. Slotboom didn't get his wish regarding the young lady's survival, but he did protect his current stack of 47,000.