Jiayuan Liu was all in from the big blind for 184,000 against Johan Storakers who was in the hijack.
Jiayuan Liu: 
Johan Storakers: 
Liu hit a good flop of 
. The 
turn and 
river filled up the board and Liu doubled up with kings and fours.
Nível: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Life, like poker, is sometimes all about good timing and knowing when to make your move. For Christoph Walkenhorst, a 35-year-old social worker from Germany, that move was made a little over a month ago.
“I hadn’t played online poker for some years, but in my home game my friends kept talking about online poker,” Walkenhorst tells PokerStars Blog the morning after he won one of the first Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) 2020 (more on that in a moment).
“I told my friends that I have two kids, and therefore no time to play an eight-hour tournament online. And that’s when they told me about the Chase Your Dream freerolls.”
The Chase Your Dream competition began with online freerolls, and anyone who went deep enough was then invited to send in audition tape. The prize, they all thought, was the chance to come to EPT Barcelona and play in an invite-only tournament versus pros and celebrities, with a shot at winning €10,000.
That was all true. But there was a whole lot more at stake too.
Click here to read the full article by Jack Stanton over at the PokerStars Blog.
The remaining 72 players are now on a 75-minute dinner break and action will resume at approximately 8:24 p.m.
Hassan Kamel and Andrew Wilson clashed preflop with the latter at risk for 507,000.
Andrew Wilson: 
Hassan Kamel: 
Kamel picked up some outs on the 
flop, but his request for spades was denied on the 
turn and 
river run out.
With two players to go until the next pay jump, it was Ramandeep Singh Gujral who became the first who had to settle for the current payout of €17,160. Singh first lost all but 20k of his stack to the pocket kings of Jonas ten Cate, before losing his final chips with ace-ten versus king-ten in the next hand.
Zhen Cai raised first to act and was called by Griffin Benger in the big blind. On a 
flop, Benger check-called a bet worth 20,000 and did so again for 22,000 on the turn. The 
fell on the river and both checked.
Benger tabled 
and Cai mucked.
As the players head on their dinner break, there appears to be just three players over the two million mark, which will be good for 125 big blinds at the start of the next level.
As relayed by a Italian reporter, Isaac Haxton was all in preflop for 647,000 against Alexis Ibarrola.
Isaac Haxton: 
Alexis Ibarrola:
The board came 
to move Haxton up to around 1.4 million in chips.
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