The remaining players are getting ready to go on a 75-minute dinner break. There are currently 917 entries and late registration will remain open until the end of level eight.
While you wait check out this video where poker pro Jamie Kerstetter addresses some of the major dramas to hit the Rio this summer.
After a limp from middle position, Martin Jacobson was next to act and raised it up to 2,000. The action folded back to the limper who called to go heads-up. The flop came and both players checked to the on the turn.
Two more checks and the landed on the river. Jacobson was faced with a river-bet of 3,000 and he made the call. His opponent turned over and Jacobson tabled to win the pot.
On the turn of a board, a heads up pot already grown over two streets of betting was led into by Kevin Song for 7,000. His opponent gave it half a minute's worth of consideration, before moving his whole stack of 17,800 across the line. Song announced, "Call" before his opponent's chips had come to a complete stop, tabling for the nuts, a straight to the queen. His opponent had flopped a set of sixes with but a set it remained, sending him out of the tournament.
Maurice Hawkins now has four times the 15,000 starting stack after busting a player, all in preflop for 11,000 effective with vs. the at-risk player's . The board ran out and Hawkins matter-of-factly snapped up the small pile of chips and quietly assimilated them into his own stack.
A board of was spread across the felt and Eddy Sabat was already all in. There was a side pot going on between Gal Yifrach and the player on his left. With around 12,000 in the main pot and 8,000 in the side pot, Yifrach already checked and his opponent finally checked as well just as the clock was called.
The river was the and both players quickly checked again. Yifrach turned over which was good enough to win the side pot against his opponent's . Sabat tabled which meant Yifrach collected the main pot as well.
"I didn't want to win this one anyway," Sabat said as he exited the tournament area.
A completed board of was already laid out on the table with around 35,000 in the middle. Thomas Boivin was on the button and heads-up with a player in the hijack.
The hijack splashed in a bet of 35,000 and Boivin had a decision to make for his tournament life. Boivin shrugged his shoulders and stuck in his stack of 29,800. His opponent turned over for just a pair of deuces and Boivin revealed for two pair to earn a double up.