The action started with Thomas Holm raising to 8,000 from middle position. Dan Shak then bumped it up to 23,000 from the hijack as the table folded back around to Holm. He thought for a moment before making the call before both players watched the flop come down .
Holm checked his option as Shak reached for his chips before sliding out 35,000. The bet was called and the dealer produced the on the turn. Once again Holm checked. Shak reached for his chips and bet out 75,000 before waiting on Holm to make his next move.
That would take almost five minutes! Holm sat back in his chair as he stared down Shak. Then put his hands on his hand and stared at the board. Eventually he moved all in for his remaining 178,000 in chips and was snap called.
Shak:
Holm:
Holm was in front with the two pair but would need to dodge a diamond or a king. Just like that the dealer peeled the on the river to give Shak the flush and award him the monster pot.
The break was well underway but a large crowd gathered around Ole Schemion's table as there was something big going on. With on the board Mike Watson in the hijack had a 100,000 bet in front of him. Schemion on the button requested the all in triangle and so put maximum pressure on his Canadian opponent.
Rocco Palumbo told us that it was a single raised pot and that Watson had check raised Schemion to 50,000 on the turn. Schemion had called that check raise in position, and now pushed over Watson's big river bet.
Watson tanked for a while and the crowd got bigger. "Ace-queen with the ace of clubs?" Watson asked at one point without expecting a reply. Schemion stayed silent as expected.
Eventually Watson folded whuile mumbling something we couldn't quite catch unfortunately. Schemion mucked silently. Because it was a break, and the 100's would be raced off, Schemion didn't stack his chips. With some 30 high stacks and lots of smaller stacks, we couldn't 100 percent get his chip count right. We do expect that he plays just over 600,000 now though.
As we walked over to see how Kabrhel was doing with his monster stack before the break, it turned out his stack wasn't as monstrous anymore. Ari Engel had a huge stack though and showed us a text message to explain what had happened.
Engel had opened with to 8,500 and Martin Kabrhel had made it 18,700 from the hijack. Engel called and check called another 20,100 on . Engel continued to check call 60,000 on the turn and check call all in for 126,000 on the river.
Engel's second pair with ten-seven proved good, Kabrhel showed and had to forfeit a lot of chips.
Shortly after returning from break, both Steve O’Dwyer and Valentino Konakchiev exchanged raises pre flop which resulted in Konakchiev being all in and at risk for his tournament life.
O’Dwyer:
Konakchiev:
The board ran out to see O’Dwyer hold with his pair as Konakchiev was sent to the rail.
Joseph Cheong moved all in from the cut off for his remaining 63,500 in chips. The action folded to Vojtech Ruzicka on the big blind who looked down at his cards before snap calling.
Cheong:
Ruzicka:
The board ran out to see Ruzicka double up to 121,000 and leave Cheong with just 6,000 behind.
Two hands later, Cheong moved all in for his last 5,000-chip before Oliver Price bumped it up to 12,000 from the cut off. Ruzicka made the call from the button as the blinds folded their hands.
The flop came down and Price checked. Ruzicka reached for his chips and splashed out 15,500 which was enough to send Price out before the cards were tabled.
Ruzicka:
Cheong:
Cheong had flopped a jack to take the lead with a pair, but that wouldn’t last long as the dealer revealed the on the turn and on the river to see Ruzicka hit runner-runner to make a straight.
"Yeaahhh!" we heard coming from a table two rows away. Roman Emelyanov shared his enthusiasm about a rivered king on a board of . The Russian had kings in front of him which now beat out Christopher Frank's aces. The big pot went Emelyanov's way and Frank just quietly left the table.
Things already weren't going to well for Martin Kabrhel, and it all turned really sour minutes ago.
On a flop of he got all of the chips in against Frenchman Patrick Uzan for a 355,000 pot. Kabrhel had a monster with but entirely in line with how things were going lately, he had just one direct out with that hand as Uzan tabled .
No runner runner split pot and no one-outer with the on the turn and on the river and Kabrhel handed over even more chips, leaving himself just six big blinds.
while Shorr was in search of a seven with his 
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on the turn. Once again Holm checked. Shak reached for his chips and bet out 75,000 before waiting on Holm to make his next move.
on the river to give Shak the flush and award him the monster pot.
on the board Mike Watson in the hijack had a 100,000 bet in front of him. Schemion on the button requested the all in triangle and so put maximum pressure on his Canadian opponent.
. Engel continued to check call 60,000 on the 
turn and check call all in for 126,000 on the 
river.
to see O’Dwyer hold with his pair as Konakchiev was sent to the rail.
and Price checked. Ruzicka reached for his chips and splashed out 15,500 which was enough to send Price out before the cards were tabled.
on the turn and 
on the river to see Ruzicka hit runner-runner to make a straight.
