Kenny Tran moves all in preflop on the last hand before the 20 minute break and colour-up. He has a very small stack and . He's up against and they deal it out:
Flop:
Turn: "There's always something," notes Tran, referring to the way poker players are always hypersensitive to any possible outs for their opponent when all in and ahead.
Terry Cook moved all in pre-flop from middle position and Aleksander Vathne called from the button. Cook turned over and found his hand dominated by Vathne's . The flop was , but the turn was the , filling in a straight for Cook. The river was the and Cook doubled up.
Looking at the current chip counts, it would appear that three of the top four players are on the same table, Mangus Persson, Dominic Kay and Karl Mahrenholz perhaps wishing they were elsewhere as Theo Jorgensen (2nd), William Durkee (3rd) and Abishek Khaitan (4th) command procedures.
If anyone has been affected by the precense of the big stacks, then perhaps it's Dominic. After losing a few meaty pots earlier on, he's been the quietest of the 6 players, but that may simply be due to a complete lack of playable hands.
It took almost one full level of play to bust 10 players. With 22 players remaining, there needs to be 13 more eliminations until a final table is set.
Three raises preflop between Lamsa and Korsar got the latter all in and called.
Lamsa:
Korsar:
The board came out: ...with a King on the superfluous river as Lamsa, the Day One chip leader, was already shaking hands and heading out from behind the rail, which is thick with spectators.
His last 35k went in with a timely vs. Terry Cook's . Tran had a bit of a wincing flop: , but the turn and river brought the and bringing his stack up to around 80k.