Dominik Nitsche has eventually late-registered and took a seat on the table of his better half Morgane Portier.
In the meanwhile, Elena Litvinyuk has disappeared from the secondary tournament area. According to Ana Marquez, Litvinyuk's aces were cracked by trips.
Alessandro Borsa has been steadily building an above-average stack and just pulled in another pot to further climb on the leaderboard. On a completed board of 
, Borsa made it 8,000 to go and was called by his sole remaining opponent to reveal 
for top pair.
That was enough to win the pot.
With 42,000 in the middle and the turn showing 
, Ion Tabacaru made it 18,000 to go and he quickly called the shove of his table neighbor in the one seat.
Tabacaru was ahead with 
for trips, as the player at risk only held 
for aces and fives. Nothing changed on the 
river and the pot was shipped to Tabacaru.
Tom-Aksel Bedell had been forced into a fold by chip leader Marjan Mitrovski in the late stages of the previous level and he was down to just 40,000. However, the Norwegian and Spain resident moved back above the starting stack right before heading into the previous break.
On a multi-way flop of 
, Alberto Blanco bet 10,000 and Bedell jammed for around 85,000 to win the pot uncontested.
Courtesy of 88poker / Gema Cristobal.
888poker LIVE London finalist Nikolay Ponomarev sent Iaron Lightbourne to the rail with ace-king, had essentially doubled his stack only to then bust against ace-king. Other recent casualties are Carmen Zainescu, Kfir Ivgi and teresa Gutierrez Ramos.
Lightbourne has already re-entered and currently enjoys a red wine, Ponomarev has not opted to buy back in yet.
Nível: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
The field size has grown to 172 entries and there are 125 players remaining at the end of level eight. Another three levels of 50 minutes each are scheduled for tonight and no further break will take place.
Francis Foord-Brown had raised to 2,000 and Frederico Da Rocha called, the button then raised to 10,000 and Foord-Brown flat-called. Da Rocha jammed for 47,100 and Foord-Brown snap-called once the action had folded to him.
Frederico Da Rocha:
Francis Foord-Brown: 
The board came 
and the Portuguese doubled.
Ruben De Pedro raised and called a three-bet to 6,700 in order to see a flop of 
, which was checked through. On the 
turn, From Peters cheched and called a bet of 11,000 to see the 
on the river. Both checked and De Pedro won the pot with versus 
.
In the meanwhile, Charlie Combes has entered the Main Event after busting the High Roller and can be found on the same table.
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