Nicolas Chouity made it 6,000 to go from early position and Jeffrey Hakim made the call from the cutoff.
Small blind Sam Greenwood squeezed to 22,000 from the small blind and big blind short-stack Yang Wang folded. Chouity made the call and now Hakim shoved all in for 76,000. Greenwood shoved over the top and Chouity folded with his 100,000 or so stack.
Greenwood showed while Hakim had . The board ran out and Greenwood and Hakim chopped the pot.
Short stack Alexandru Papazian was all in and at risk for only 6,600 and behind him Christoph Vogelsang in the big blind and Tom-Aksel Bedell from under the gun got their stacks in as well with both at almost even stacks.
Papazian:
Vogelsang:
Bedell:
The board ran out and Papazian tripled up, while Vogelsang doubled through Bedell for 56,200.
The pocket sixes of [Removed:17] were already in the muck and he paid off the shove of Michael Telker for 65,500. Telker was at risk preflop with the and held up thanks to a board of .
Georgios Zisimopoulos has become an early big stack with the elimination of Sergey Lebedev. On the three-way flop of , Zisimopoulos checked in the small blind and Shaun Deeb bet 13,300 from late position. In the cutoff, Lebedev called and Zisimopoulos then check-raised to 35,000.
While Deeb folded, Lebedev moved all in and was snap-called.
Lebedev:
Zisimopoulous:
The Russian sighed and already left his chair, while the turn and river completed the board. "I can't believe the action went like this," Deeb added and Zisimopoulos was busy stacking his tower of chips.
While Salman Behbehani and PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree just took their seat, another half a dozen players has been eliminated in the first five levels of the day.
In a battle of the blinds, Viacheslav Goryachev raised from the small blind and Ye Zhang in the big blind three-bet to 16,000. Goryachev then shoved for around 75,000 and was snap-called.
Goryachev:
Zhang:
The board ran out and the pair of kings held for the Chinese.
Pasi Sormunen has just been eliminated by Walid Bou Habib. We're unsure as when the chips went in, but are sure Sormunen's was no match to Bou Habib's on the board of .
David Dayan from under the gun and Georgios Zisimopoulos got into a raising war and the former got his stack in and the latter looked him up from the big blind.
Dayan:
Zisimopoulos:
The board ran out and Dayan was sent to the rail. Until the end of level eight, he can however reenter the competition on his second bullet still.