Mike McDonald was all in and in trouble with against Hossein Ensan's .
The flop teased McDonald with a gutshot but the was without doubt the most entertaining card in the deck. It made McDonald the nut straight but gave Ensan a flush draw and a gutshot to a bigger straight. The river was the and McDonald doubled up.
Barely a couple of hands later and the two got into another raising war, McDonald five-betting all in and Ensan snap-folding as a result.
Bernardo Da Silveira Dias looked pretty with how the hand was going until on the river Mauro Mancin shoved on him for 158,000. There followed near five minutes of agonising from Dias, the emotions writ all over his face as he went through seemingly every possible combination of hands his opponent could have. He emitted a, ”Wow.” muttering under his breath alternately trying to convince himself that he had the best hand or that he had somehow run into a better one.
It was a pot sized river shove from Mancin and Dias had 290,000 behind. Eventually he decided he didn’t want to commit the chips and said, “Fold.” with a sigh.
Not content with the pot Mancin showed the and Dias put his head in his hands distraught. Seeing the distress he was in another player asked him, “Did you have a king?” Dias did not respond.
Former PCA Champion Dimitar Danchev is out, he was all in with against Andrey Shatilov's . The flop was good for the Bulgarian but the turn gave Shatilov a flush draw and a straight draw. The Russian hit Broadway on the river, Danchev immediately shook hands with his assassin and quickly left the table.
All of Raigo Aasmaa’s chips were in the middle before the flop had been dealt. He was in possession of and he had been challenged to a race by Pedro Marques who was armed with .
The race got underway and Marques got off to a flying start on a flop of . Nothing would stop him as the turn and river saw Aasmaa fall by the wayside.
Lenny Kravitz once sang, "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" and Scott Seiver just found out exactly that. He was all in with against Marko Neumann's .
The flop came and Seiver jokingly turned Neumann's cards face down. The turn didn't change anything but the river was greeted with some laughter, from Seiver and Neumann as much as anyone else.
Seiver was eliminated and Neumann moved back over 500,000.
Piotr Sowinski is staking his claim for the chip lead after he called Day 1B chip leader Jose Lamarca's all in on the turn of a board. Lamarca showed needing to hit because Sowinski flipped .
The Spaniard couldn't find one of his ten outs on the river and Sowinski picked up a huge pot to put him close to chip lead.