After a raise to 2,500 and a call, Peter Hong three-bet to 6,200 out of the small blind. The initial raiser grabbed his bigger domination chips and four-bet to 24,300 before calling the all in shove from Hong. Hong had by far more chips and also the better hand in , whereas the opponent turned over the .
"I run so bad," the opponent whispered after the board completed with .
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Joep van den Bijgaart had a short stack at risk for the last two big blinds with versus but the opponent found the right in the window. It was only a minor setback for the Dutchman though, as he chipped up for the day.
Below we have some further chip count updates from the purple section.
Crippled after some previous confrontations, Alexis Gilbard moved all in for 10,000 with and was called one seat over by Carter Swidler with . Gilbard was ahead until the turn, but the river of a board gave Swidler a straight.
Joep van den Bijgaart confirmed to us that Jorn Walthaus has been eliminated. He ran with pocket fives into kings and couldn't get there anymore. Besides Michael Tureniec and Daniel Erlandsson, two other Swedes are still left. They are both rather short though.