With 378 players remaining according to the screens, tournament staff has confirmed that the last table downstairs has been moved to the main area and thus only one set of stairs is required for the bloggers to jump right into the action.
Denis Drobina was all in and at risk after five-bet shoving his stack of 25,000 chips with pocket kings. Jack Salter "didn't have much, only pocket jacks" and the queen-high flop "gave nothing." On the turn, Salter picked up a flush and straight draw before finding one of the remaining two jacks in the deck on the river.
Salter then went on to explain to the table that the was his favorite card, but he didn't get it this time.
Erwann Pecheux started the day as short stack like he did so often before and then staged yet another comeback story, getting himself suddenly above average within the first levels after the restart. Latest victim to the run of the Frenchman was Steven Warburton, who five-bet shoved with .
A third player in the hand bowed out after the three-bet and Pecheux called with . The board ran out and Warburton had slightly less chips than his opponent to head to the rail.
Alexandre Sako opened before the flop and Artem Litvinov in the hijack made the call.
Sako would fire on the flop and Litvinov made the call. The same happened on the turn; Sarko bet (6,600) this time, Litvinov called.
The was where things got interesting. Sako bet another 11,000 and Litvinov tanked for a bit before raising to 29,000. Now it was Sako in the tank. The Brazilian thought for quite some time before eventually calling.
"I have had some pretty good rivers, yeah," Jack Salter admitted with a grin on the face. The Brit is up to 150,000 in chips while his little brother Louis is among the players eliminated. Others who are up for the day include former Pot Limit Omaha Bracelet winner Jan Peter Jachtmann, Michael Poirier and Matan Krakow.
With 6,000 in the pot and a flop of , Dermot Blain, who celebrated his 31st birthday yesterday, checked from the big blind and JC Alvarado bet 3,400 from middle position. Blain responded with a check-raise to 10,000, and then called off the 12,000 he had behind after Alvarado three-bet all in.
Blain:
Alvarado:
Alvarado was technically ahead with his ace-queen, but Blain was drawing to two live cards plus a flush draw. The turn made Blain's draw to a king irrelevant, but it didn't matter as it'd be the on the river that'd give him the flush and the win.
[Removed:40] opened to 2,000 and called the three-bet of Martin Schleich for 5,000 to see a flop of . The full action after that is unknown but Schleich was at risk with pocket aces and Vitagliano held the . Neither the turn nor the river improved Schleich and he hit the rail.
One hand later, Vitagliano opened again and Jakub Michalak three-bet to 5,100. The Italian inquired how many blue T-5,000 chips his opponent had and then made the call. On a flop of , Vitagliano quickly check-raised from 3,800 to 15,000 and was called before moving in immediately after the dealer had burned and turned the .
Michalak didn't call within a heartbeat but did so after some consideration, revealing his . Vitagliano had for an open-ended straight draw and the river bricked. Michalak doubled up for 48,200 and is now stacked nicely.