Another new player to the feature table, Matt Affleck entered the pot with a raise to 230,000 following limps from William Thorson and Michael Mizrachi.
Thorson made the call for the additional 170,000 as Mizrachi folded.
The board was checked down until Thorson fired out 210,000 on the river.
With the action on Affleck, he bumped it up to 775,000, and following a few minutes of deliberation, Thorson folded to see Affleck collect his first pot at the feature table to move to 7,800,000 in chips.
Michiel Sijpkens raised to 150,000 before Robert Pisano reraised to 350,000. Sijpkens was in middle position and Pisano in the cutoff seat. Johnny Lodden was on the button and four-bet to 1.2 million. Both Sijpkens and Pisano folded, moving Lodden up to three million in chips.
Gabe Costner raised to 140,000 from under the gun before Redmond Lee moved all in for a total of 1,955,000. The table folded around to Costner who made the call.
Costner:
Lee:
The board bricked out to give Lee a life-saving double up to 4.09 million as Costner takes a hit to slip back into the pack with about 9 million.
Michiel Sijpkens raised to 150,000 from middle position and Mads Wissing reraised to 490,000. Sijpkens made the call and the flop came down . He checked and Wissing fired 375,000. Sijpkens folded and dropped to 4.3 million. Wissing moved up to 5.6 million
Jonathan Duhamel and Robert Pisano tangled up preflop, and their clash left Duhamel all in for 1.715 million chips. The cards were turned up, and the race was on:
Duhamel:
Pisano:
There was agony on Duhamel's face throughout the rest of the hand, and with good reason. The flop brought him no help with and the turn was useless as well. Duhamel was one card from elimination, but a timely spiked the river to save his tournament life an double him up. He's over 3.5 million now, climbing just past Pisano and his ~3.2 million chips.
Evgeny Shnayder raised to 145,000 from late position and Benjamin Statz called in the small blind. In the big, Jason "PBJaxx" Senti squeezed the rest of his chips into the middle, all 580,000 of them. Shnayder called and Statz ducked out, and Senti was heads-up for double or nothing. The showdown news was good news:
Shnayder:
Senti:
The board wouldn't let Senti down either as it came out . Queens up with the ace kicker works just fine, and Senti has more than doubled up; he's close to 1.6 million now.
William Thorson opened to 130,000 from the cutoff and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind.
Affleck check-called a 160,000-chip bet when the flop landed to see the land on the turn. Affleck took the initiative and led out for 360,000 with Thorson making the call before the landed on the river.
Affleck led out strongly once again; this time for 800,000, only to have Thorson make it 2,000,000 to go.
Taking nearly five minutes, Affleck eventually called, only to be shown Thorson's for the nut flush.
All of the money went in preflop in a three-bet shove. Benjamin Statz called against Christopher Bolt; he had the and Bolt the . Bolt was all in for 1.3 million.
The flop came down and Bolt stayed in front. The turn gave Statz a flush draw when the rolled off. The river spiked the on board and Statz hit his flush. Bolt couldn't believe it and was sent to the rail in stunning fashion.
On the last hand before the break, Bryn Kenney raised to 160,000 from under the gun before Alexander Kostritsyn three-bet to 575,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Kenney moved all in with Kostritsyn quickly calling.
Kenney:
Kostritsyn:
The flop brought a real sweat as it fell to give Kenney a flush draw to go with his ace as outs to end the run of the Russian young gun. It didn't arrive with the turn but there were "oooooohs" around the rail at the landed to complete Kenney's flush.
After a count down of chips Kenney had more and a stunned Kostritsyn departed the Amazon Room silently amongst the sea of players heading to break.
Meanwhile Kenney will be enjoying his break as he will return with 7.7 million chips.
board was checked down until Thorson fired out 210,000 on the river.
to give Lee a life-saving double up to 4.09 million as Costner takes a hit to slip back into the pack with about 9 million.
. He checked and Wissing fired 375,000. Sijpkens folded and dropped to 4.3 million. Wissing moved up to 5.6 million
was useless as well. Duhamel was one card from elimination, but a timely 
spiked the river to save his tournament life an double him up. He's over 3.5 million now, climbing just past Pisano and his ~3.2 million chips.
. Queens up with the ace kicker works just fine, and Senti has more than doubled up; he's close to 1.6 million now.
land on the turn. Affleck took the initiative and led out for 360,000 with Thorson making the call before the 
landed on the river.
for the nut flush.
and Bolt the 
. Bolt was all in for 1.3 million.
on board and Statz hit his flush. Bolt couldn't believe it and was sent to the rail in stunning fashion.
turn but there were "oooooohs" around the rail at the 
