With around 20,000 in the heads up pot and a flop of 
, Christian Pham moved all-in, with around 15,000 behind. His opponent called relatively quickly from the button. The players tabled their hands.
Pham: 
Button: 
The board ran out 
, securing the pot and the double up for Christian Pham.
Kirk Hartsell led from early position for 6,000. The player to his left went all-in for 26k. Action folded to the big blind, who went all-in for 13k.
Hartsell quickly called and the players tabled their hands.
Hartsell: 
Early Position: 
Big Blind: 
After a quick discussion amongst the table about the side pots, the board came 
. With no player connecting, Hartsell's ace high held, busting both opponents.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
The second break has been extended, cards are expected to be in the air shortly.
With the day's field up to 3,173 entrants, the players are now on their second break, this time thirty minutes. Level 9 will begin when they come back, where blinds will increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante.
Lance Goodman was one of four players in a more than 10,000 chip pot going to a flop of 
. The under the gun and middle position players both checked to Goodman, who checked it to his opponent. After a bet of 6,000 from the hijack, Goodman called after the two other players got out of the way.
On the board pairing 
, Goodman then chose to lead for 10,000 into the opponent in the cutoff. After his opponent made a big raise of 42,000, Goodman jammed all-in for 100,000 more and got called.
With cards turned over, Goodman had the lead with his ahead of the 
(flush draw) of his opponent. 
fell on the river and Goodman collected almost a full double-up and knocked out the other player.
After an impressive second place in a circuit ring event last month, Goodman is looking to go one better in this event. He was all smiles as he now has over five times the starting stack.
The button and Robert Bickley in the big blind ended up all-in preflop with the button at risk for 70,000
Button: 
Robert Bickley: 
The board of 
was clean for Bickley and the 2017 WSOP Europe Main Event Finalist took down a big pot.
Preflop action was on the hijack following calls from under the gun and two early position players. The hijack raised to 5,200. Pete Morris reraised to 17,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back around to the hijack, who called.
Action now heads up, the flop came . The hijack checked to Morris, who quickly moved all in. Morris' opponent thought for a few minutes before making the difficult fold, showing the table his hand, 
. He received praise from the table for the fold, stating they believed Morris to have queens, but it was Morris who received the 40,000 pot.
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