Pete Linton opened from late position and met some resistance from Amy Trodd seated in the big blind. Trodd three-bet to 170,000 to put the action and the pressure back onto Linton.
Linton then four-bet to 315,000 and Trodd had seen enough and mucked.
"I'll show you if you like?" said Linton
Trodd either answered or nodded to Linton who then said Trodd must show the next time he asks her to.
Linton then revealed the .
"I'm being the gentleman, see" said Linton to Trodd's boyfriend Karl Mahrenholz who is watching from the rail.
Whatever Julian Gardner had for dinner has woken him up because he has started this level aggressively, with Andre Moreira being his target.
Moreira opened in the hijack to 64,000 and when the players folded to Gardner in the small blind Gardner three-bet all in. Moriera asked for a count but doing so only added a little suspense to the situation. Moreira folded after 15-20 seconds.
The very next hand, Moreira opened to 64,000 again. As in the previous hand, the action folded to Gardner and he three-bet all in. Moreira said, "I should call you," before folding.
David Drai is the first post-dinner casualty, he pushed into Alban Juen's and the board ran out . Juen has had a topsy-turvy day but he's once again firmly among the chip leaders.