With the most recent elimination putting us at our final 32 players, we will now be taking a 25-minute break as a redraw is conducted as we enter the "Shootout" stage of this event.
The players will redraw into four tables of eight players and will be seeded according to chip stack with each table to be as evenly balanced as possible according to each table average.
We'll have the redraw and chips counts for you shortly.
Billy Seri raised it up to 3,500 before Alfred Grech moved all in over the top. Seri instantly called with the pocket aces as Grech flipped pocket eights.
However an eight in the window on the board of gave the pot to Grech and sent Seri crashing to the rail.
Ben Delaney opened from the hijack to 3,000 and an opponent shoved for 14,000. Delaney went into the tank before calling with off-suit and found his opponent holding .
The board ran out to ship a 30,000ish pot his way and send an opponent to the rail.
Michael Guzzardi is now up to 48,000 chips after doubling through Daniel Francis.
In a raised pot, Francis shoved all in over the top of Guzzardi's bet on a flop of . Guzzardi made the call with but would need to dodge some cards as Francis was drawing big with .
The turn was the and river the and Guzzardi takes it down.
"I like your style!" complemented Guzzardi as he raked in the chips. Francis is still in good shape with 30,000 chips.
Sam Khouiss has just departed the tournament floor amidst an tirade of expletives directed towards his opponent.
"How the f*#k do you call with ace-jack? Ace-king ok. Ace-queen maybe. But ace-f#@king-jack?" uttered Khouiss following his pocket nines losing the preflop race with his opponent's when the board ran out .
Daniel Francis has struck again and claimed another big scalp in Tino Lechich. Francis opened from the hijack to 3,000 before Lechich moved all in over the top for 17,000. Francis made the call.
Francis:
Lechich:
The board landed to give Francis a set to surge up the leaderboard as Lechich hit the rail.