Bastian Strickling opened to 2,000 from early position, and after a middle position flat, Pascal Brechot moved in his 19,000 chips from the small blind. Strickling was the lone caller.
Pascal Brechot: 
Bastian Strickling: 
The 
flop gave each player a bit of something and provided chip outs, but the 
and 
completed the board to give Strickling a boat and the pot.
Steven Jones Jr completed in the small blind and Jinho Hong raised from the big blind. Jones responded with a limp-jam and Hong called off with his stack of 33,700.
Jinho Hong: 
Steven Jones Jr: 
The flop came 
to pull Hong out of his seat as his opponent had gotten there, but the then peeled off on the turn to give Hong a set and have Jones drawing dead headed to the 
river.
Team PokerStars Pro Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot leads the latest round of counts with a stack of 155,000, putting him among the current Day 1a chip leaders.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Rati Okuashvili ended up getting his roughly 20,000 chips in from the hijack and was at risk against Paul Tedeschi on the button.
Rati Okuashvili: 
Paul Tedeschi:
The board ran out 
and Okuashvili exited while Tedeschi chipped up.
In a three-way pot on a flop of 
, Alexandre Reard got his stack of 7,000 in the middle and was called by Min Ji, while the third player in the hand folded.
Alexandre Reard: 
Min Ji: 
Reard had flopped top pair but couldn't get ahead of the overpair of his opponent as the board finished out 
to improve the Frenchman to a meaningless two pair and mark his elimination, though he bought back in shortly after.
On a board reading 
, Tibor Szenasi bet 1,700 only for Alejandro Lococo to raise to 11,700.
Szenasi pondered before making the call and Lococo quickly slid his hand into the muck without showdown.
Lococo is now down to 6,000 chips whilst Szenasi has had a solid start to his day and is one of the larger stacks in the room.
A cutoff player got their stack of approximately 16,000 in and was at risk against Thomas Syversen in the big blind.
Cutoff:
Thomas Syversen:
The 
flop put Syversen well ahead to the turn. Just needing to fade a jack, the completed the board to give the Norwegian a boat and the pot.
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Players are now on their second 20-minute break of the day.
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