Kevin Taunton has been knocked out of the competition.
Holding AJ his allin move was called by Jason Shelhum, whose AQ held on a Q 9 9 blank blank board to win him a nice pot.
John Kabbaj, one of the most experienced players in the competition has just been involved in a hand with Mohammed Barkatu.
After a few thousand chips went into the pot preflop, both players liked the flop, John getting his shortish stack in with JT on a
flop.
Mohammed Barkatu's 88 had less outs than he thought it would and the A and Q on the turn and river changed nothing, granting a timely double up to 35k or so for John Kabbaj.
Charalambos Xanthos has had a good start and looks to have bolstered his 55k stack up to 85k or so...
Glen Martin has doubled up at the expense of Steve Littlejohn.
Steve had called a riase preflop with 99 and liked the look of the
flop, but Glen had an easy call with his stack size and QQ and he took it down and looks to have moved to around 30-35k.
Marc Goodwin is another of the day's early risers, moving his stack to around the 90k mark.
Mark Herron is on around 40k at this stage.
Nick Gibson, who is wielding what appears to be a Vic's inhaler as though it was a £50 Havana cigar is looking focused and up for all eventualities and has the stack to cause mischief...