Now that the bubble has burst there is likely to be a flurry of bust outs. First out in the money was Colin Marks and not long after was Robert Schulz.
Schultz moved all in and got two callers, one of them Adam Kelly. It was checked down to the river of a board reading whereupon a bet from Kellly saw the other player fold. Kelly had and his flush knocked out Schultz who turned over .
Usually when you play every hand, things do not go your way since you can't win every hand. However, that has not been a problem for chef Darren Woods. He's been playing what can only be described as a 'super-high variance' game that involves him playing around 90% of the hands. He's consistently hit and forced people to play for stacks every time and it's working. He has nearly 600,000 at this point, that's around four times the average.
With registration for the £2,000 High Roller about to close Victoria Coren Mitchell had bought in and, as she is still in the Main Event, she will be playing both at the same time running between the events.
Coren Mitchell told PokerNews, “It’s the only exercises I get. I’m not a sporty person.” before going on to give a more realistic explanation; with play set to end shortly when the Main Event is down to 40 players it makes sense to buy in before registration closes.
Stephen Day, one of the last remaining Rational Group Staff in the tournament, has just been eliminated holding . He was all in preflop against the of Ciaran Heaney.
A final board of was enough to say goodnight to Day.
Darren Woods just knocked out both Sylvester Geoghegan and Mark Hawks with queens versus ace-king and jacks for yet another pot. This left us with about 15 minutes left in the level and 40 players, because of this, play has finished for the day.