We are being told that a short-stacked Toby Lewis raised on the button and James Akenhead re-raised enough from the big to put Lewis all in. Lewis called.
Lewis:
Akenhead:
The flop ran out , leaving Lewis with an inferior two-pair and eliminating him from the tournament.
Erik Seidel bumped it up from the button only to have Kyle Frey move all in for an additional 36,500 from the small blind. Seidel made the call and the cards were tabled.
Seidel:
Frey:
The board ran out to see Frey double to 90,000 as Seidel slipped to 85,000 in chips.
With the board reading we found Ben Tollerene shoving his last 121,500 into the pot from the big blind against Sean Getzwiller.
Getzwiller contemplated for a while before eventually making the call and tabling his . Tollerene shook his head and tabled his for an elaborate bluff to fall in 23rd place while earning $13,368 in the process.
As Getzwiller secures his second WSOP final table for the series after winning Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, he detailed to us that Tollerene kept barrelling into him - including a 40,000-chip bet on the turn - before eventually falling one place shy of a WSOP final table berth.
Erik Seidel raised to 7,000 from the button and Kyle Frey went all-in for 104,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Seidel called off his remaining 60,000.
Seidel:
Frey:
"Nice hand," Frey offered to Seidel.
The board was safe for Seidel and he doubled up to about 130,000.
A short-stacked Gareth Teatum has just been eliminated by Justin Bonomo after a preflop raising war saw Teatum all in from the small blind.
Teatum:
Bonomo:
With a classic coin-flip on the cards, the flop put Bonomo squarely in the lead. However ZeeJustin wasn't content with that, and was happy for the overkill as the turn and river ran out the and to end Teatum's tournament in 24th place.
James Akenhead opened the button to 6,000 only to have Toby Lewis three-bet the small blind. The action returned to Akenhead who pushed for 143,500 and Lewis made the call.
Lewis:
Akenhead:
The board was spread to see Akenhead win this battle of the Brits as he doubles to 292,000 while leaving Lewis on just 42,000 in chips.
Marc Inizan pushed his short-stack all in from the button and Mark Radoja made the call from the big blind.
Inizan:
Radoja:
With Inizan trailing, the flop gave him additional outs to a third nine, but when the and fell on the turn and river, he was forced to farewell the tournament in 25th place while leaving Radoja and Yasuhiro Waki in a fairly even heads-up battle.
A quick update on all the tables sees six of them at heads-up play.
Three are battling it out in threes, while just one table - Gareth Teatum, Nicolas Fierrogottner, Justin Bonomo and Thorsten Schafer - are yet to lose a player.