Following a raise by Max "goodeh99" Silver in early position, Alex "dynoalot" Difelice stuck his 24 big blinds in from the button and Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle overshoved in the big blind to force out Silver.
Alex "dynoalot" Difelice: 
Benjamin "Bencb789" Rolle: 
Difelice needed help and he got there thanks to a 
runout to leave Rolle short.
A couple hands with medium-sized pots lifted the stack of Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle while Michael "imluckbox" Addamo dropped below 30 million in chips. Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis will be under immediate pressure as he went through the blinds and dropped below five bigs total.
Nothing major happened and that sent the remaining 15 players into the next scheduled 5-minute break.
Level: 34
Blinds: 100,000/200,000
Ante: 25,000
Michael "imluckbox" Addamo used his big stack to pull further ahead of the competition on his table with Max "goodeh99" Silver in a distant second place. There was no showdown in sight when suddenly the two Canadians Daniel "Oxota" Dovress and Alex "dynoalot" Difelice clashed in a battle of the blinds with the latter at risk.
Alex "dynoalot" Difelice: 
Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress: 
The 
board ensured that the kicker played and Difelice doubled.
Thomas "MarToMchat" Boivin won a bigger pot against "Alexgirs" when he got involved in the action on the button and Francisco "chicalltreta" Correia also called out of the big blind. On a 
flop, "Alexgirs" continued for 450,000 and Boivin was the only caller.
The 
turn brought a second barrel for 1.12 million and they checked the 
river. "Alexgirs" tabled 
and Boivin had the best of it with 
.
"Alexgirs" got some chips back without showdown and Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts then made trips eights with to earn a pot of almost 4.7 million.
Boivin and "Alexgirs" then clashed once more when the former defended the big blind and check-called bets of 330,000 on the 
flop and 1.08 million on the 
turn. Boivin bet the river for just 384,750 and "Alexgirs" called to win the pot with 
versus 
,
Pablo "pabritz" Brito raised it up to 360,000 in the cutoff and a short-stacked Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov pushed for just over 4.4 million out of the small blind, which Brito called.
Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov:
Pablo "pabritz" Brito:
The 
flop gave Brito broadway while Vezhenkov had outs to a chop and hearts for the double. Instead, the 
turn and river bricked off to eliminate the Russian in 16th place for $50,642.
Pablo "pabritz" Brito doubled through "Alexgirs" when his held up versus . It was a four-bet pot preflop and "Alexgirs" had made it 2.4 million to go, he then jammed the 
flop and Brito called.
The 
turn and river blanked.
"Alexgirs" doubled through big stack Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts shortly after when his 
went runner-runner to crack thanks to a 
board.
Instead, it was Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez who had to settle for 17th place when he ended up second-best to James "Cmon_Gasquet" Hopkins in the following preflop all-in.
Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez: 
James "Cmon_Gasquet" Hopkins:
The board came 
and Hopkins made a flush.
Level: 33
Blinds: 90,000/180,000
Ante: 22,500
James "Cmon_Gasquet" Hopkins raised it up to 329,600 from under the gun and Michael "imluckbox" Addamo three-bet to 1 million in the cutoff. Japan's "Cosmos0224" jammed it in for more than 6.5 million from the big blind and once Hopkins had released his cards, Addamo snap-called.
"Cosmos0224":
Michael "imluckbox" Addamo:
The 
board left "Cosmos0224" with no chance and he departed in 18th place.
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