Todor Kondevski and Kerry Stead were recently involved in a heads-up confrontation in which Kondevski came out on top to move to 175,000 in chips.
Stead opened the pot with a raise to 25,000 from under-the-gun and when the action reached Kondevski in the small blind, he moved all-in for a total of 80,000. Stead made the call and tabled , finding himself in bad shape against Kondevski's .
The flop came down giving Stead top pair, but Kondevski still had many outs to retake the lead, holding the queen of clubs.
As it turned out, no more clubs would hit the board, but Kondevski managed to spike a third queen on the turn to take back the lead, improving even further when the fell on the river giving him a full house.
Stead was left with 35,000 in chips after the hand.
James Bailey was the latest player to collect after moving all-in preflop with and found himself flipping for his tournament life against Peter Aristidou's .
Aristdou took the lead on the flop of and stayed there as the board ran out ,.
Bailey's off to the bank; Aristidou is up to 210,000.
Brent Thomas won a monster pot just before the last break to move to 540,000 in chips, knocking former chip leader Rodney Chamma down to 120,000 in chips.
A player in middle position opened the pot with a raise to 17,000. Thomas then kicked it up to a hearty 70,000 and when the action reached Chamma in the big blind, he moved all-in over the top. The initial raiser folded, but Thomas snap-called, tabling a pocket pair of aces. Chamma then tabled his own cards -- .
Five very safe community cards later, Thomas' aces remained supreme and he raked in the 540,000 pot.