Not the most scintillating of action, perhaps, especially as we just caught the end of a hand in which Dumitrache picked off a river bet with ace high) but it’s an excuse to update the chip stacks: Button Mark Murphy made it 160,000 to go (blinds 40k/80k) and both blinds called (Marian Dumitrache and Shawn Morales). None of them made any further aggressive action and it checked all the way down until the board read 9d Td 5s Ad 5c, Dumitrache’s pocket eights winning (Murphy showed down Js Qc).
| Mark Murphy | 1,600,000 |
| Marian Dumitrache | 2,600,000 |
| Shawn Morales | 450,000 |
| Oliver Gayko | 1,500,000 |