Hands #48-52: Phillips Keeps Up Pressure
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Hand #48: Kiryl Radzivonau was in first position with 
and opened for 400,000. Samuel Phillips in the small blind with 
made it 925,000 and with the big blind out of the way Radzivonau threw it away.
Hand #49: Phillips made it 400,000 from the button with and Radzivonau called in the big blind with 
. They saw a flop of 
and Radzivonau check-called a bet of 425,000. The turn 
was checked and on the river 
both players checked and Phillips was good.
Hand #50: Phillips in the cut-off made it 400,000 with 
and took the antes and blinds.
Hand #51: Andrey Shatilov opened for 400,000 in early position with 
and Phillips called with 
and Hossein Ensan called with 
. The flop was 
and it was checked around to Phillips who bet 550,000. Ensan check-raised to 1,275,000 which seemed momentarily to confuse Shatilov who had top pair, top kicker but he moved all in and took it down.
Hand #52: Ji Zhang had 
and moved all in. It was the third time he had that hand today but he didn��t get any action this time. Zhang showed the table his hand.