Steven Moseley has just knocked out a short stack and Vladimir Shchemelev. It was the Russian who raised from early position, the short stack shoved the button with and Moseley reshoved one seat over with . Shchemelev called off with but could not improve on the . Moseley won the next hand as well to add some more chips to his stack.
Julian Thomas has been eliminated. He three-bet shoved into pocket aces and just checked on fellow countryman Khiem Nguyen, who is also rather short stacked. "Ah well, at least I can play the 6max tomorrow then. That is more fun anyways," he said before exiting the tournament area.
Bart Lybaert raised to 9,500 from the cutoff and the button three-bet to 19,500. The big blind moved all in for 45,000 and the Belgian four-bet to 70,000 in order to scare off the button. Showdown:
Lybaert:
Big blind:
There wasn't really any threat on the board and the Belgian is among the biggest stacks in the room.
We already noticed another double up from Allen Kessler not that long ago and he must have apparently won further chips, as he just sent the following tweet:
Level 18 has started and it will be the final level of the night. Let's see if anyone makes a run for the chip lead or if they clam up in an attempt to make Day 3 of this massive event.