The field has narrowed down to 80 players with everyone remaining guaranteed to take home $360.64. Among the recent eliminations were some players who previously held big stacks including ScratchyR (85th - $344.96), pads1161v2.0 (89th - $344.96) and Johnsonsb4be (101st - $313.60).
Players have been exiting the tournament at a fast and furious pace since the bubble broke with now 105 players remaining. Among those eliminated were Spanish poker pro Lucas "duchasp4rati" Blanco who lives in the United Kingdom eliminated in 129th place for $266.56.
All players are now guaranteed at least a payout of $311.80.
It took three hands of hand-for-hand before the bubble broke. Germany's ooo3r1Cooo was sitting out and was down to under a blind in the big blind.
Austria's pads1161v2.0 raised from early position to 14,500 before calling a three-bet from Sweden's Madeon1994 of 35,000 from late position.
Pads1161v2.0 then shoved all in for 128,297 on a board and Madeon1994 had a few chips less called. Pads1161v2.0 was behind holding and his opponent holding . However, his hand turned around after the hit the turn and shipped a big pot after the completed the board.
Madeon1994 was also eliminated during this hand and collected $266.56 for finishing in 135th place.
Ukraine's Johnsonsb4be headed into the break as the chip leader with 554,385 followed by United Kingdom's gordijuuuuuu in second place with 534,035 and Sweden's mofaas with 523,004 in third place.
Players are now on their fifth break of the day. Play will be hand for hand once it resumes with 136 players remaining and 135 getting paid at least the minimum cash of $266.56.
Canada's spiffytech held one of the top stacks for more than an hour. However, that is no longer the case after he just lost a big hand to Ukraine's Johnsonsb4be.
Johnsonb4be min-raised from mid-position to 10,000 and got a call from spiffytech before everyone else folded. Johnsonb4be led out on a flop for 24,500 before spiffytech raised him to 67,750. Johnsonb4be then shoved all in for a total of 196,913 and spiffytech called.
Johnsonb4be:
spiffytech:
Spiffytech was unable to catch up after the completed the board sending a huge pot of 480,326 to his opponent.