In what turned out to be a war of the short-stacks, Brian Johnson managed to double up courtesy of Dario Pavan with against . No change on a gave Johnson the pot, whilst a down-to-the-felt Pavan departed a few hands later.
Meanwhile, and on the same table, Anthony Ho dropped to a paltry 15,000 after losing a versus encounter on a board. The victor was an elderly Frenchman, but one who appears to have eaten his ID card.