Kapoor Amongst the Big Stacks
There are 158 players in contention, with one of the biggest stacks belonging to Akshay Kapoor, who is sitting on 216,000 and was kind enough to tell PokerNews how he amassed such a sizable stack.
Kapoor was responsible for showing $5 Challenge champion Shivan Abdine the door back on the 400/800 level after the two clashed in a hand on an ace-king-jack double club flop, which is when Abdine got the last of his chips in with 
. Kapoor had 
and hit running aces on to make the boat and bring Abdine's tourney to a close.
The first hand back after the break saw Kapoor rail another opponent in a multi-way pot, spiking top set with aces on a 
flop vs. two players in the blinds. While the small blind was able to escape on the turn in the hand, the big blind, holding two pair was not so fortunate and that pot shot Kapoor to the top of the counts.
Other notables with chips are as follows:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
216,000
216,000
|
216,000 |
|
211,300
211,300
|
211,300 |
|
210,000
102,500
|
102,500 |
|
||
|
199,100
39,100
|
39,100 |
|
166,500
-33,500
|
-33,500 |
|
165,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
|
163,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
|
160,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
|
159,200
114,200
|
114,200 |
|
135,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
|
125,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
100,000
-42,000
|
-42,000 |
|
95,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
|
95,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
|
80,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
80,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
||
|
80,000
-43,000
|
-43,000 |
|
75,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
65,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
60,000
35,500
|
35,500 |
|
55,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
50,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
, improving Laidlaw to a higher pair, resulting in his opponent hitting the rail.
and the action checked to Laoyont who continued for 5,500. Both opponents called. 
on the turn before the 
completed the board. 
for a straight, and took down the pot, after Laoyont mucked. 
, which saw Zheng check-call Attenborough's 1,600 continuation bet.
river bringing a third check from Zheng and a bet of 25,000 from Attenborough, which was enough to win the hand. Attenborough has his chips stacked a little haphazardly so it's hard to gauge exactly how much he has, but it looks close to 220,000.
.
river was a swing and a miss. Angelakis left the playing area and Tran stacked up to 146,400.
and Sam Capra checked from the big blind. The player under the gun plus one bet 5,000. James Obst raised to 13,000. Capra folded. The original raiser called. 
and Jason Gilbert checked from the big blind. Alan Zheng then moved all in for around 27,000 from the big blind. Gilbert snap-called. 
on the river changed nothing and Zheng was sent to the rail. 
Daniel Embleton was in the tank from the big blind, contemplating a bet of 17,000 from button Alba Qi.
runout to win with a straight and now has over 155,000, while Harb has 125,000.