Several players opted to jump in at the last minute as the registration officially closed with the start of level seven. However, all alternates that bought in already will be seated if possible. The two PokerStars Team Pros Jake Cody and Liv Boeree were among the new faces, as were Paul-Francois Tedeschi and Adrien Allain.
Arron Fletcher is out and the table related how his exit went down.
Fletcher had defended his big blind with Jack-Five and saw a flop of 5-5-6 with two diamonds. He check-raised and then got it all in with his trips.
His opponent had 
and rivered a flush to send Fletcher packing.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 100
The 2nd 25-minute break of the day has started with the tournament now at the halfway point.
Ondrej Drozd shoved for13,000 and got a call from Daniel Burrow.
Drozd had 
and Burrow 
.
The board ran out 
.
The killer ace on the turn finished off Drozd.
On the heads-up turn of 
, Karim Souaid led for 2,500 out of the big blind and Guillem Cusco Bach raised to 8,000. Souaid quickly called and checked again the 
river. Both players were the far biggest stacks at the table and Bach then bet 18,500 from the hijack. Souaid gave it some thought and checked the stack, but elected to fold with around 57,000 behind.
Matthew Guilbert bet big on a flop of 
and Nicholas J A Galt moved all in for not much more. Guilbert didn’t look delighted with himself but didn’t compound the error by folding so Galt was the player at risk.
Galt had hit with 
and Guilbert had overs 
.
The turn was the and the river the 
to send Galt to the rail.
There was a limp for 500 and a call, the small blind completed and Stephen Hendry in the big blind checked his option.
Four ways to a flop of 
and everybody checked. The turn card was the and a check from the small blind prompted a bet of 2,100 from the snooker legend. Everyone else let it go and Hendry picked up the pot.
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