Benoit Gilles

Benoit Gilles was all-in for around 880,000 and was at risk versus Hengtao Zhu.

Benoit Gilles: K♠Q♠

Hengtao Zhu: A♥J♥

Gilles needed help but none arrived on the 10♣8♠8♥6♦3♠ runout.

As his elimination was confirmed, Gilles, sporting a very fetching Belgium football top, stood up and smiled, declaring “From Ben from Belgium, thank you to everyone, I’ve really loved playing poker in Ireland, best of luck everyone. And if everyone could send Belgium good vibes for tomorrow against France, we need it, thank you!”

His table mates gave him an enthusiastic goodbye and it was clear to see how much Benoit had enjoyed the event, fantastic to see. I’m not sure about the good vibes for Belgium I’m afraid Benoit, that might wreck a few of our regular’s bets.

Steven Lee

Steven Lee was all-in for 300,000 and at risk versus Robbie Bryant.

Steven Lee: [invalid notations]

Robbie Bryant: 10♦10♣

Lee needed some help versus Bryant’s overpair but insufficient help arrived on the 5♣4♦9♠7♣6♦ runout.

Markus Letzel

Markus Letzel was left short-stacked after he doubled up Dave Smith in a kings versus ace-queen hand, and he was forced all-in in the big blind. Action folded to Darragh McDonnell in the small blind who called.

Letzel had eight-two and McDonnell had king-jack, and ended up hitting a straight on the runout.

Derek Baker

Table 6

1 – Derek Baker – 1,395,000

2 – Des McGrady – 785,000

3 – Fergal Coyle – 1,170,000

4 – Hengtao Zhu – 2,225,000

5 – Didier Gilles – 370,000

6 – Santosh Shukla – 3,955,00

7 – Neil O’Reilly – 2,050,000

8 – Damian Moran – 1,650,000

Table 7

1 – Dave Smith – 1,550,000

2 – Darragh McDonnell – 1,355,000

3 – Markus Letzel – 545,000

4 – Thomas Brett – 1,320,000

5 – Daniel Blake – 2,150,000

6 – Steven Lee – 470,000

7 – Jorrit Baars – 2,600,000

8 – Robbie Bryant – 1,335,000

Santosh Shukla

Shukla, Santosh                4,350,000

	Baars, Jorrit	–	2,650,000
–	O’Reilly, Neil	–	2,000,000
	Baker, Derek	–	1,950,000
	Zhu, Hengtao	–	1,850,000
	McGrady, Des	–	1,700,000
	Coyle, Fergal	–	1,600,000
	Brett, Thomas	–	1,400,000
	McDonnell, Darragh	–	1,300,000
	Moran, Damian	–	1,300,000
	Bryant, Robbie	–	1,200,000
	Blake, Daniel	–	900,000
	Smith, Dave	–	770,000
	Gilles, Benoit Didier	–	660,000
	Lee, Steven	–	450,000
	Letzel, Markus	–	300,000

We are now at the two table redraw with 16 players remaining, following the elimination of the below players:-

Leckey, Paul                 Out 17  €800

	O’Shea, Eoin	Out 18	€800
	Ferguson, Henry	Out 19	€750
	Grealis, David	Out 20	€750
	Gleeson, Alex	Out 21	€750
–	McPartland, Frankie	Out 22	€750
	O’Donnell, Manus	Out 23	€700
	Murtagh, Sean	Out 24	€700

A short break will take place.

Santosh Shukla leads the Summer in Dublin Main Event with 24 players left:-

	Name	Table / Seat	Chips
–	Shukla, Santosh	T6 / 6	2,500,000
	Blake, Daniel	T8 / 9	2,260,000
	Coyle, Fergal	T7 / 8	1,950,000
	McGrady, Des	T8 / 2	1,720,000
	O’Donnell, Manus	T6 / 2	1,660,000
–	O’Reilly, Neil	T6 / 3	1,445,000
	Zhu, Hengtao	T7 / 6	1,355,000
	Baker, Derek	T7 / 2	1,300,000
	Grealis, David	T6 / 8	1,295,000
	McDonnell, Darragh	T8 / 5	1,115,000
	Baars, Jorrit	T7 / 1	1,040,000
	O’Shea, Eoin	T6 / 4	950,000
	Ferguson, Henry	T8 / 7	935,000
	Brett, Thomas	T7 / 9	910,000
	Moran, Damian	T7 / 7	700,000
	Smith, Dave	T8 / 3	585,000
	Letzel, Markus	T6 / 9	560,000
	Leckey, Paul S	T8 / 6	540,000
–	McPartland, Frankie	T8 / 8	500,000
	Bryant, Robbie	T6 / 5	475,000
	Murtagh, Sean	T8 / 4	325,000
	Lee, Steven	T7 / 3	320,000
	Gilles, Benoit Didier	T6 / 7	270,000
	Gleeson, Alex	T7 / 4	230,000

Paul Carr

2023 Player of the Year Paul Carr and Gavin Joyce have departed in 26th and 25th place respectively, both taking home €700 for their efforts.

A short break will now take place for the three table redraw.

David Grealis opened to 65,000 and was faced with a three-bet jam to 375,000 by Markus Letzel in the next seat, Grealis making the quick call.

Markus Letzel: 10♣10♥

David Grealis: A♦A♠

Letzel was in trouble versus a dominating overpair, but went into the lead on the 2♦6♣10♦ flop, which he did not relinquish on the K♥2♠ turn and river.