With two players seeing a board of 8♥7♣10♥4♣ and around 20,000 in the middle, Jesse Lonis was all in for around 40,000 from the small blind and up against Ian Bradley who covered him from the big blind.
Jesse Lonis: 6♦5♦4♠3♣
Ian Bradley: A♣J♠9♠2♥
Lonis had a straight but was drawing dead against Bradley's bigger straight and he made his exit from the tournament area after the 6♣ river.
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Alexander Petersen was already celebrating after being all in for 38,500 on the flop of 5♥6♠2♥, after being called by Tyler Brown.
Alexander Petersen: 6♥4♥9♣2♦
Tyler Brown: A♥2♠J♠J♣
Petersen had draws aplenty to go along with his two pair versus Brown's pocket jacks, and the 7♥ turn completed his six-high flush, leaving Brown drawing dead. The J♦ river completed the board.
Nacho Barbero limped in from under the gun and Patrik Jaros raised to 7,000 from the hijack. Mark Buckley called in the cutoff, Jan-Peter Jachtmann called from the small blind and Jean-Baptiste Tomi called from the big blind.
Jachtmann bet 15,500 on the J♣4♣J♦ flop and only Tomi called. Jachtman then checked the 9♠ turn and Tomi shoved, covering Jachtmann who had a bit over 30,000 behind.
Jachtmann went into the tank for a minute or two before opting to fold. Tomi told his opponent that he had quad jacks shortly after dragging in the pot.
Ian Bradley limped from middle position, as did Patrik Jaros in the small blind. Juha Helppi checked in the big blind.
On the K♦J♠8♠ flop, action was checked to Bradley, who put out a bet of 3,000. Jaros check-raised pot to 14,800 and Helppi folded. After some thought, Bradley repotted it, forcing Jaros all in, and he got the rest of his ~33,000 chips in the middle.
Patrik Jaros: A♥10♥8♣8♥
Ian Bradley: K♣K♠J♥5♦
Jaros had run his bottom set of eights into Bradley's top set of kings, and matters weren't altered by the 7♥ turn nor 10♦ river.
Action was picked up on the flop with Sam Greenwood, who had started the hand with around 30,000, already all in on a board of J♣8♣6♦. He was up against Ren Lin, who had been vocal about trying to bust Greenwood for the last 30 minutes and now had the chance to do just that with a covering stack.
Sam Greenwood: A♣K♥Q♠10♦
Ren Lin: K♦6♣4♣3♠
"No pair, no flush draw? Adios amigo!" Lin told his opponent before revealing his four hole cards one by one, ultimately showing a pair of sixes and flush draw. Lin improved to two pair on the 4♥ turn and remained ahead on the A♠ river to score yet another knockout while Greenwood made his way to the reentry desk to fire a second bullet.