We said earlier that Allan Baekke was on fire. A quick check back at his table reveals that he is continuing to burn through opponents.
Aurelien Guiglini was all in before the flop with 
, behind Baekke's 
. The board came 
, and Guiglini is out. Baekke is now up around 395,000.
Peter Traply moved all in in middle position for about 41,000 chips and Jeffrey Chu called in late position.
Showdown
Traply: 
Chu: 
The 
board gave Traply a one-way ticket to the rail, and 250,000 chips for Chu.
Antonio Esfandiari is no longer with us. With the stacks at his table getting larger and larger, Esfandiari watched as an opponent raised, he reraised all in with 
, then was called by his opponent who held 
. The board brought no help to Esfandiairi, and he joins the 250 or so players who have already cashed in this one.
Team PokerStars Pro André Akkari just hit the rail. Akkari ended up all in pre-flop with pocket fives and was called by a player with pocket tens.
Without help from the board, Akkari is out of the tournament.
We're now on a 20-minute break.
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 500
Adam White just knocked out another opponent when his 
proved best against the all-in player's 
following a 
board.
White is now up to 380,000.
Had kind of an interesting situation over on Table 371 going on a little while ago involving an Australian player named Andrew Batey.
As he had been explaining to his table, he's subject to especially heavy taxes once he exceeds winning a prize of $5,000 plus his buy-in. Just now we were at the $5,292 level for bustouts (64th-72nd), and in fact Batey would stand to net more (he said) if he went out at that stage than he would at the following level that paid $6,306 (55th-63rd).
Thus did Batey -- who, it should be added, was short-stacked anyway -- shove all in blind a couple of times while we still had more than 63 players left, his justification being that he'd make more going out at that point than at the next level.
The first time he shoved from early position, and it folded to James Kilarjian in the big blind who called with 
. Batey tabled 
. The flop came 
, and Batey looked like he was going out at his desired level. But the turn was the 
and the river the , and he'd doubled up. (Kilarjian now has 187,000.)
Soon he was all in again with and up against an opponent's pocket eights. The board came 
, and Batey survived again!
Now that we are down to 63 players, he's stopped with the shoving, and currently sits with 35,500.
Scott Montgomery opened the pot in the small blind and Benjamin Zamani moved all in from the big. Montgomery called.
Showdown
Montgomery:
Zamani: 
The board ran out 
and Zamani is out of the tournament. Montgomery is now up to 210,000 chips.
