Brian Lemke popped the action to 28,000 from middle position and Alexander Turyansky reraised to 75,000, giving Christian Iacobellis an opportunity to raise all in from the small blind.
Lemke called and Turyansky folded, taking us heads up to the flop.
Lemke:
Iacobellis:
A board of provided no threat to Iacobellis, who now has more than 350,000.
Olivier Busquet opened the action with a raise to 26,000 from the cutoff before Mike Sowers moved all in from the button for 204,000 in total.
The action then passed to Ben Tollerene in the big blind who made the call as Busquet got out of the way.
Tollerene:
Sowers:
The board ran out giving Sowers a running broadway straight to find a miraculous double up. He's up to 440,000 with Tollerene left shaking his head with 150,000 chips.
We saw a three-way unraised pot after David Benefield limped from the button and Brian Lempke limped from the small blind.
Action checked to Benefield on a flop of and he bet 12,000. Lemke called and Steve Kopp folded. We went heads up to the turn where Lemke check-called another 32,000 on the . Both players checked the on the river and Benefield mucked when Lemke turned over for top pair.
Lemke now has 413,000 while Benefield is down to 104,000.
Darryll Fish opened with a raise from the cutoff before Faraz Jaka popped it up another 40,000 from the button. Fish moved all in and Jaka made the call.
Fish:
Jaka:
The board ran out and Jaka takes it down to move up to 820,000 and Fish heads to the cashier to collect $21,026 in prize money.
With big action on two different tables we missed the bust out hand of Jerry Atkins who was eliminated in 26th place. He'll take home $21,026 for a fine tournament.
David Fox has doubled up with his surviving an all-in clash against David Inselberg's . The board was spread and Fox doubles to 275,000.
Meanwhile another short stack, Matthias Neu has also doubled. He held against the pocket sixes of Fabian Quoss and spiked a pair on a board of . Neu is up to 220,000.
The players are back and the cards are once again in the air. There are 26 players remaining with play scheduled to continue until 3am or our final table of nine.
Danny Illingworth is unstoppable at the moment as he becomes the first player to crack the magical one million chip mark.
His victim this time was shout box favorite Steve Verrett. The chips were all in preflop with Verrett looking set for a double up holding against the of Illingworth, however he failed to factor in the "run good" of Illingworth as the board ran out giving him two pair to eliminate Verrett in 27th place for a collect of $21,026.