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In a pot of around 30,000, Rajeev Poonhath bet the river for 5,000 and earned a call to reveal 5♣5♦ with the completed board showing Q♠4♥2♠2♦A♦. It was good enough to win the pot as his opponent mucked.
Howard Lipman three-bet jammed a short stack in the cutoff and El-Juan Du Plessiers did so in the small blind to force out the initial raiser.
Howard Lipman: A♣7♦
El-Juan Du Plessiers: 10♦10♠
The J♦8♠7♣ flop gave Lipman an inferior pair while the 10♥ turn improved Du Plessiers to a set, leaving Lipman with four outs to a chop only. Instead, the 8♦ river gave Du Plessiers a full house for the knockout.
According to the table chat, Moon Khan had previously doubled with an even shorter stack and just did so again when he was at risk with 7♠7♣ versus 3♦3♣ for the last 11,600. The board ran out J♦9♦6♦9♥A♠ and the superior pair dodged a flush draw to stay in contention.
Khan claimed he'd need one more double to get right back in it.
Yoni Lipshitz returned from the break with a short stack and found a pair to go with it to get those chips in. His 7♥7♠ unfortunately had a rough timing, as Wouter Van Der Merwe instantly looked him up with the K♦K♣.
The mountain to climb got even bigger on a K♥Q♦6♦ flop and no running sevens came to the rescue.
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Level six has come to an end with 62 players out of 87 entries remaining. This has brought with it another scheduled 15-minute break and they will play one further break prior to the 60-minute dinner break.
Prebbre Reddy bet the A♦9♣7♠6♣ turn for 3,500 in the small blind for Damon Fine in the big blind and Sven Strommes on the button to call. Reddy bet another 6,500 on the K♣ river and Fine quickly folded. Strommes called and Reddy announced an ace, showing the A♥8♥.
"Straight," Strommes replied and turned over 8♠5♠.
In an already big pot to the 9♦8♥4♣8♣J♠ river, Theuns Prinsloo fired a bet of 25,000. Gideon Scheepers quickly called but couldn't beat the Q♥Q♠ of Prinsloo. He bemoaned to have had "so many outs but didn't hit" before joking he'd win the chips off other players only to lose it all to Prinsloo again.
Thomas Bedford raised to 2,500 and received no fewer than three callers including Danny Dayani and Ricky Toker out of the blinds. They all checked the K♣Q♣7♥ flop and the 3♠ turn saw Bedford bet 4,000 when checked to. Only his table neighbour called and that brought a duo to the 3♦ river.
Bedford now bet another 7,000 and that won the pot without resistance.