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In early position, Team PokerStars Pro André Akkari opened the pot with a 7,000-chip raise. The action folded to Jeffrey Schnettler in the small blind, who moved all in for about 56,000 chips. Akkari called and tabled pocket eights. Schnettler showed 
.
Flop: 
Turn: 
River 
Akkari slipped to 146,000 chips and Jeffrey Schnettler is snow up to 108,000.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Allan Bække is absolutely on fire. Just a moment ago he knocked out a player with pocket jacks. All the chips went in pre-flop, and Bække tabled pocket jacks. Jacob Liddell showed 
.
The 
board gave Liddell's a free entry in the rail.
A few hands later, Bækee ended up all in pre-flop again. He shoved from the small blind and Michael Burlick called for less.
Showdown
Bække: 
Burlick: 
The 
gave Bække 325,000 chips. Burlick is out of the tournament.
Well, Jason Riesenberg has finally ordered that mass of chips into neat stacks, and it looks like he's up to the 370,000-chip mark. Antonio Esfandiari was right -- it looks like we have a new leader. For now, anyway.
Jason Riesenberg opened with a raise from middle position, and it folded back around to Antoine Arnault who reraised from the blinds. Riesenberg made the call, making for a pot of about 60,000.
The flop came 
. Arnault thought about 20 seconds, then pushed out a bet of 35,000. Riesenberg took about the same amount of time to declare he was all in.
"Wow," said Arnault. Arnault had about 100,000 behind, and was covered by Riesenberg. Finally after about a minute he said "All right," tabling , and Riesenberg flipped over his 
.
The turn was the . Then came the river -- the -- and Arnault's first reaction was to clap his hands at the sight of the diamond. But then he realized he was beaten by Riesenberg's full house, and shook his head with a sad grin.
"New chip leader," said Antonio Esfandiari, sitting to Riesenberg's left. Actually Olivier Busquet's lead might still be safe -- he has 355,000 currently -- but Riesenberg is still stacking a lot of chips over there. We'll count 'em up shortly.
Jeremie Menard and Alexander Carr ended up all in pre-flop after a raising war. Menard tabled 
and Carr 
.
Without the help from the 
board, Menard loosed this pot and was busted in the very next hand.
Menard is now up to 116,000 chips.
The action folded to Anthony Kaup in the small blind, and he moved all in. The big blind, James Kilarjian called. Kaup tabled 
and Kilarjian 
.
The board ran out 
and Kaup doubled up to 35,000 chips. Kilarjian slipped to 64,000.
Esclating preflop raising eventually meant Mikhail Petrov and Wenlong Jin had together helped build a pot of 185,000 before the flop, with Jin all in and Petrov only with 5,500 behind.
They tabled their cards, and Jin had the advantage with versus Petrov's 
. The board ran out 
, and Jin took the big pot. Down to the super-short stack, Petrov was eliminated shortly thereafter.
Peter Kim opened the pot in middle position and Jeffrey Chu moved all in from the small blind. Kim called. Chu tabled 
and Kim showed .
The board came out 
and Kim doubled up to 27,000 and Chu slipped to 88,000 chips.
"All right boys," said Young Phan as he stood and pushed his remaining 10,400 forward from middle position. "I'm all in." He got one caller in Eloi Relange from a couple of seats over, and the others all folded.
"I can beat king-queen!" said Phan, tabling 
. Then Relange showed his -- -- and Phan could only laugh.
The flop came , then the 
came on the turn, meaning Phan was still drawing live. But the river was the , and Phan was eliminated.
"Hey, I made the nut low!" said Phan with a grin before shaking hands with his tablemates. Relange is now up to 38,000.
