Nikolai Senninger raised to 180,000 but his attempt at aggression was thwarted by a reraise to 450,000 from Aaron Gustavson -- the second hand running he'd three-bet preflop. And just like the last time, the original raiser folded and Gustavson took the pot. The Lion King looked sad.
Martin Gudvangen raises to 190,000 and Aaron Gustavson, in the small blind, slides out a stack of orange chips, making it 600,000. Gudvangen decides it's too early to play a big pot against the chip leader and throws his cards away.
Rui Milhomens raised to 180,000 only for Martin Gudvangen to make it 480,000 to go. Back to Milhomens, who immediately announced all in. A slightly disappointing instafold from Gudvangen, and we play on.
It folded around to Nikolai Senninger in the small blind, who shoved to cover big blind Raymond Wu. Not even the semblance of thinking about it from Wu before he folded.
Rui Milhomens raised to 180,000, but Dominic Cullen shoved for his whole 1.535 million stack. Milhomens thought about it, but eventually made a resigned "oh well" sort of face and folded. Last Brit standing Cullen picked up the pot to a brief burst of applause from the rail.
Karim Benanni moves all-in for his last 290,000 or so. Peter Eastgate stares deeply from beneath arched eyebrows but folds. Rui Milhomens auto-calls in the big blind.
Milhomens:
Bennani:
The board comes , Milhomens is flushed with success while Bennani is simply flushed away. The French/Morrocan player is the first out on the final table.