"jle90" raised to 33,464 from under the gun and Dave "sexygee" Gent shoved for 406,136 directly behind. "jadedjason" then re-shoved from the small blind, and "jle90" got out of the way. The of Gent had jadedjason's in bad shape, and the secured the double for the player from the U.K.
Dan "dan82mur" Murariu and "shuriken555" are in a two-way race for the chip lead. Murariu just raked in the stack of Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen to increase his total to nearly 3.3 million, which for the moment was good enough to take the pole position.
"vic_xcite" raised to 29,275 from the hijack and Murariu three-bet to 74,225 on the button. The aggressive Hunichen then four-bet out of the small blind to 151,885, and the original raiser got out of the way. Murariu wasn't done, however; he shipped his 2.5 million-chip stack in the middle and Hunichen called instantly to create a pot worth more than 1.5 million:
Murariu:
Hunichen:
Hunichen was on the other side of it this time and again it was the suited queen that came from behind as the gave Murariu a winning pair of tens. Hunichen earned more than $29,000 for his 35th-place finish.
Chip leader "shuriken555" opened with a min-raise to 28,000 from early position and Terrence "Unassigned" Chan defended his big blind.
The flop fell and Chan check-called 32,000. Both checked the turn, leading to the river. Chan bet 69,625, but was put to the test for his remaning 156,511 when "shuriken555" shoved. After a few moments Chan called all in with , but had been beaten by "shuriken555's" .
Joep “Pappe_Ruk” van den Bijgaart got into a blind vs. blind confrontation with chip leader "shuriken555" that didn't end well for the Dutch pro. Van den Bijgaart five-bet all in from the small blind with but shuriken555 called with . The queen-high board wasn't enough to keep van den Bijgaart alive as he exited in 40th place for $26,000.