Rudolf Fourie was all-in with the most classic of flips holding the Q♠Q♦. They were up against Harold Brooks, who had two overs in A♥K♠. No ace or king came on the J♣9♥8♠4♣10♦ runout and Fourie doubled with a queen-high straight.
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Current chip leader Keenan Pienaar raised to 6,500 and was called by Divan Van Wyk in the next seat. Roy Bitton then three-bet to 31,500 and shut down the two bigger stacks.
One table over, the completed board showed 10♥9♦4♣3♥A♠ and Eben Lottering bet 29,000 with around two times as much behind. Greg Tucker moved all-in and Lottering folded.
Tucker tossed his cards face down towards Lottering and motioned to him that he can look. Lottering was not interested and pushed them to the muck. "Pocket tens," Tucker said after that while another player joked "looked like five deuce to me".
Giovanni Zanette instantly called all-in preflop when Roy Bitton jammed the A♥7♥ and was well ahead with the A♣Q♠. The 8♣4♠2♥9♥3♥ board provided running hearts and the 60,500 of Bitton covered.
NT departed shortly after from the same table followed by bellow short stack Raja Vempati on table five.
Robin Moir got it in preflop when he raised and called the three-bet shove by Craig Hartland with the A♥K♥. Hartland was caught with the fingers in the cookie jar holding the A♦5♣ and could not improve on the 9♦8♦4♠Q♥Q♦ runout.
That cut the stack of Hartland into half but he made up for most of the losses in the next hand, pushing over the top of a shove by Ahmed Karrim.
Nic Ioannoy was the second player to jump back in at the very last minute and got the chips in with A♠10♥. Eben Lottering had him pipped with the A♦J♦ and they both paired their kicker on the J♥10♠6♦ flop. The K♦ turn provided some chop outs but the river bricked.
With the start of level 11, the late registration for the opening flight closed. Two entries at the last minute boosted the field to 80 entries, which means 12 players will go through or until the end of level 15, whichever of the two options comes first.
Divan Van Wyk raised to 5,000 and then folded when Roy Bitton and NT jammed their short stacks, Lauren Piha also folded the A♥2♠ in the big blind as well.
NT's 6♥4♥ was up against A♦5♦ and turned an open-ended straight draw until the J♣10♣5♠3♣ turn. The river was the A♣ and Bitton doubled for 45,700 in the last hand prior to the 10-minute break. NT had 7,200 chips left over, which he surrendered in order to re-enter before the end of the late registration.
In a three-bet pot between Harold Brooks and Benjamin Lingenfelder Jr, the former check-called the Q♣6♣4♠ flop for 15,000. Both checked through the J♣ turn and 3♥ river for Brooks to win the pot with the 8♠8♣.
In the meanwhile, NT busted and re-entered while Nic Ioannoy and Patrice Ah-Nien departed.
