The players have gone to hand for hand as there are 55 players left on the clock with 54 places paid out.

The players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.

Action was recapped by the table as despite some earlier in the day setbacks, Nathaniel McNamara now sits as the biggest stack.

With a massive pot brewing, McNamara called on the turn on a board reading , with a pot worth over 260,000 and his opponent was all in and at risk.

Opponent:
Nathaniel McNamara:

The river gave McNamara threes full of jacks to best his opponent's three jacks and he took down a massive pot to ascend into the chip lead.

Nathaniel McNamara

770,000

770,000

Will Werner was on the river with his opponent with a pot of 8,500 in the middle. The board read . From the button, Werner bet 6,500.

His opponent was in early position and had to think it through for a while before he called.

Werner tabled the which was the winner as his opponent flung his cards into the muck in frustration.

Will Werner

61,000

61,000

Kevin Specter has been steadily amassing chips throughout the day and now sits as one of the bigger stacks in the room.

After playing with the tour for ten years, Specter looks to continue his good fortune and secure his seventh cash in the Bar Poker Open Championship, as he makes a run to take home the $100,000 first place prize.

Kevin Specter

344,000

-50,000

A player moved all in for 67,000 from the hijack and in the big blind, Benjamin Green called.

Opponent:
Benjamin Green:

The board ran out and the ace-queen held up for Green to grow his stack bigger.

The flop came . The first player to act bet 2,600. Kenneth Kergo raised it up to 6,000 which got a quick fold.

Kergo added the extra chips into his stack as he nears 50,000.