In a battle of shorter stacks flying the Canadian flag on the GGPoker client, it was "Spychopaht" on the button at risk against "coolioE" in the cutoff.
"Spychopaht": 
"coolioE": 
The board ran out 
and "Spychopaht" doubled with a full house, kings over aces.
In the final hand prior to the scheduled break, a four-way flop of 
brought the stack of Gediminas "NeverGambol" Uselis into the middle out of the small blind and he was called by Matthew "lethalbiz39" Benn.
Gediminas "NeverGambol" Uselis: 
Matthew "lethalbiz39" Benn: 
The turn was a blank but the 
river kept Uselis in contention.
The 126 remaining players have been sent for another 5-minute break.
Daniel "angenit" Vicente called a min-three-bet to 6,000 by Dan "oiltrader" Shak and Evgeny "AntreVolt" Galakhov also called to see the 
flop. Galakhov checked, Shak bet 11,400 and Vicente moved all-in for 68,242 which was called only by Shak.
Daniel "angenit" Vicente:
Dan "oiltrader" Shak: 
Shak had a redraw to a superior straight and while he missed on the turn, he improved on the 
river.
Only three hands later, a raising war broke out and featured Shak, as well as Galakhov. The former three-bet to 16,140, Galakhov four-bet to 36,006 and called the shove of Shak for 165,130 total.
Dan "oiltrader" Shak: 
Evgeny "AntreVolt" Galakhov:
The superior pocket pair reigned supreme on the 
board and that spelled the end for Shak.
Christopher Puetz raised to 4,400 at the end of the previous level and Timothy Adams three-bet to 13,240 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Puetz in the under-the-gun position who made the call.
The flop came 
, Puetz check-raised the 10,257 continuation-bet of Adams to 27,400 who responded with a jam of 89,593 and was called by the bigger stack.
Timothy Adams:
Christopher Puetz:
Adams held the overpair while Putz had flopped the flush draw.
The turn was the 
to keep things the same but the 
on the river brought the flush to Puetz to bust Adams.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 240
In a preflop all-in contest, it was the Ukraine's "Kachalovskyi" who ended up at risk with the and Stoyan "UncleToni" Obreshkov tabled the dominated 
.
The board ran out 
and Obreshkov lost nearly half of his stack in the process.
"bankodiese" raised to 5,000 from the early position and Miguel "FreshlyBaked" Seoane three-bet shoved from the cutoff for 18,222. "Omar28" four-bet to 32,823 from the big blind for "bankodiese" to fold.
Miguel "FreshlyBaked" Seoane:
"Omar28": 
The board ran out 
for "Omar28" to flop the higher pair immediately and for Seoane to brick the gutshot straight draw on the turn and river to bust.
Mikhail "playforfan" Galitckiy called all-in for 23,801 out of the big blind when he faced the button raise by Vitaliy "Durdy" Pankov and the small blind jam by Vitaliy "Durdy" Pankov, which "NowWeAreFree" in the big blind called.
Vitaliy "Durdy" Pankov:
Mikhail "playforfan" Galitckiy:
"NowWeAreFree": 
The board ran out 
and Pankov hit the rail as Galitckiy tripled up.
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