After a poor showing in the opening three levels, David Baker has mounted a comeback to push his stack back over 30,000.
On the last encounter, Baker opened for 750 in the hijack, the cut-off called, and Jonathan Aguiar three-bet to 2,325 from the button. Baker made it 6,125, which was enough to pick up the pot uncontested.
Howard Lederer has doubled up a short stack in perhaps the second most classic coin flip in poker: 
versus 
. A 
board later and Lederer's stack took a 6,000 hit. He now has 24,000.
Nicolas Levi told of the demise of Vanessa Selbst at his own hands. She had opened in early position and he had flat-called with 
with Jason Lester also calling.
The 
flop was checked to Levi who bet 1,000 into a 2,300 pot. Lester folded but Selbst made the call to see a turn, Selbst checked again and then call a bet of 2,400 on the turn. The river was the 
and Selbst checked a third time, Levi setting her all-in for her remaining 9,000 which she called and then mucked when seeing his hand.
Levi has about 85,000
Having grown his stack every level since the start, Arnaud Mattern has been set back to square one (a little behind it, actually) after doubling through Jake Cody. Cody wasn't on this table originally, but materialised a few seats to Mattern's left a level or so in. Obviously a player on form, and one to watch out for, Mattern is currently frustrated that he's handed him his own 60k stack. Presumably that will be being put to use shortly giving the rest of the table their own headaches.
It was a 
board which did the damage - Mattern, holding pocket Queens, bet and called Cody's raise, and then bet-called the brick turn. He found Cody with having flopped a set vs. his overpair and this combination of bets gave him a full double through. "The only player at the table I would stack off with an overpair..." he mused bitterly, although the blinds are still such that his 24k remaining is still perfectly workable.
It's been a quiet day so far from Leo Margets, but she just fired out 3,100 on the flop of 
against Filippo Candio who made the call. The 
came on the turn and Margets now checked and Candio quickly bet 7,600.
Margets did not take too much hesitation in moving her entire stack over the line, Candio agonised for several minutes before eventually folding although he looked very pained while doing so, as if he had just suffered a nasty papercut or something.
Margets cheered him up a little though, she showed 
.
Barny Boatman (big blind) and Thomas Bichon (middle position) reached - although I think it's safe to assume that Bichon raised preflop and Boatman defended - a 
flop where Boatman check-raised the Frenchman's continuation bet of 1,000 to 3,400. After a brief dwell, Boatman made the call.
The turn came the 
, and after Boatman had checked, Bichon fired out a bet of 9,000. This time, and despite a look of temptation in his eyes, Boatman relinquished his hand.
Bichon can now raise his bat in the air and bask in the applause of the gallery; he's now reached his half century (well, sort of) in chips.
Simon Persson has quietly been building up his stack to 78,000, one of the largest in the downstairs room, with a headphone-wearing calm which may lull his opponents into a false sense of security. He dented Isabelle Mercier's stack ever so slightly in his last confrontation, calling her preflop raise, check-calling her flop bet on the before leading out for 3,225 on the 
turn. She pondered for a short while before making the call. The river was the and Persson bet out again - this time 3,700. This time the reaction was completely different - an instant hurl of her hand into the muck.
Under the gun, Brent Roberts opened to 900, and he found calls from Toby Lewis (in position) and Scott Fischman (big blind).
The three of them went to a flop of 
, and Fischman knocked the table. Roberts continued out with a bet of 1,700, Lewis called, and Fischman folded out of the way to let them go heads up.
That led them to the turn, and Roberts fired another bullet, 4,200 this time. Lewis took a bit of a pause to stare, but he confidently plucked the calling chips from his stack and flicked them into the pot.
The 
filled out the board, and Roberts kept the heat on. A third bullet worth 8,500 chips came from his corner, and that sent Lewis deep into the tank for several long minutes. Maybe he just wanted to enjoy his massage for a few uninterrupted minutes. Eventually, after cutting out the call and giving a long, hard stare over at "Astrolux85" before frowning and returning his cards to the dealer face-down.
Lewis - 33,500
Roberts - 51,000
Fabian Quoss, recent English Poker Open winner and previous WSOP runner-up in 2009, has extended some impressive early chip towers ceilingwards at this year's WSOPE £10k event, in the pursuit of an elusive bracelet. His most recent acquisition: the remaining stack of Rick Solomon. Quoss was not to be shaken by his opponent's betting the turn or river of a board which stayed low until the final card: 
... at which point Solomon immediately moved all in for his remaining chips (about 12k by this point). Quoss called with 
and was shown 
as his opponent headed for the rail.
Harry Kaczka raised from the cutoff seat to 800. Eugene Katchalov called from the small blind and Michel Abecassis called from the big blind.
A flop of was spread for the three players and Katchalov was up first. He fired 1,600 into his two opponents and they both folded. Katchalov was pushed the pot and pushed his stack to 49,000.
