
Bounahra is aggressively protecting his short stack raising to $1.6 million, forcing Holden to fold. He takes another coupe of hands and enjoys interacting with the crowd. Heinz too is trying to make his chip count and raises a million to Statsko and wins against the chip leader's pocket sevens. Up to 19 million in chips, almost 3 million more than he started with.
Lamb shows his face with a raise on the button and takes an easy uncontested pot. Holden goes all in against Bounahra and gets a chip count of just over $10 million. Collins makes a little noise with a raise on the button and you can see all the other players debating heads up play with the professional. Heinz takes the chance and Collins folds to Heinz's re-raise. A bold move for the German. Heinz is obviously happy with his win probably gaining valuable play information against Collins.
Lamb retaliates by raising Heinz in the next hand, maybe trying to stem the flow. Lamb takes it with a K-5. Heinz had A-J. Seems the player of the year is trying to make the hierarchy clear.
Staszko raises on the button, O'Dea calls his million. Flop is 7-8-6 and Stazko checks with a glare at O'Dea. O'Dea raises $1.6 million and Staszko calls. 4 on the turn and the pots up to seven million. Both check nine of diamonds on the river. Staszko bets again with A 10 forcing O'Dea to fold and giving him a nice pot of ten million. Not bad for just a couple hours of play. 46 million for the chip leader
Giannetti takes an easy uncontested pot to get to 26 million chips. An hour to go at level 37.