Martin Hruby has been shifted into the secondary ballroom on to a table which is now groaning under the weight of three 200k+ stacks. One of them is newly created - Sergey Rybachenko, who has been patient with an average/less than average stack for a long time, but played this hand with Dmytro Samoilenko as if they were both on two-second decision timers:
Heads up to a flop of and there was nothing special about this pot yet. Rybachenko (the preflop raiser) bet out 5,100. Samoilenko raised to 13,000 and before you could blink twice a big stack of yellow 5k chips had slid out in front of Rybachenko and it was "All-in/Call" moments later.
Rybachenko:
Samoilenko:
There was just a twinge of disappointment from Samoilenko as the turn and river rolled out to bust him, while Rybachenko remained impassive, stacking up a healthy 200k.
There was around 40,000 already in the pot when we arrived on the turn of the board. It looked as though Szymon Pieszczoch - the young man who was second in chips going into the day, and who would score very well in Scrabble - had bet out 23,500. Yuriy Nesterenko had raised to 55,000 and was sitting back in his chair, gazing around the room (things of note to see - a press member brazenly flouting the no-flash rule; also a tourist having his photo taken with Boris Becker), so he didn't notice Pieszczoch going all in for 144,200 in total.
Eventually Nesterenko registered the bold move, which would put him all in. He stacked and restacked his remaining chips - around 80,000 of them - but eventually folded. Pieszczoch is now back near the top of the chip counts, on around 240,000.
Giacomo Maisto lays down his hand to a 25k bet on the river from Nikita Malinovskiy - they'd built a pot of over 80k already when the river joined the board. Maisto, looking perturbed, gave it up.
Alessio de Cesare doubles up to over 100k, his making a flush.
Charles Combes gets his trips paid off on the river by Thomas Leeb, betting 17,200 on a board and showing down a winning .
Tom Dwan raises preflop to isolate the all-in Tarek-Karim Riester, who held vs. Dwan's . An ace appeared on the flop, but so did the and Dwan loses a few of the chips he's made so far today.
Much-needed injection of chips to stack just now for American Adam Wilks, who had just dipped beneath the 20k mark (19,300 to be precise) and found an open spot to get it in preflop. Cutoff Adam Jerney, however, immediately called, and the big blind Erik Friberg joined in the pot.
Flop: . Jerney now announced, "All in," for over 110k - Friberg covered him but declined to call. Heads up vs. the all-in Wilks now and Jerney showed vs. . Looking for an ace or a gutshot, his prayers were answered in the form of a directly on the turn and no further hearts but the echoing on the river.
Wilkes is still under the average (which is now 81k) but has a lot more play as there's still nearly an hour left of the 800/1,600/200 level.
French-on-French action as Bernard Boutboul checked the river of a board to table neighbour and fellow Frenchman Jacques Zaicik, who bet 10,500. Boutboul called with a shrug and turned over for top pair, top kicker, but Zaicik flipped for a flopped set and bumped his stack up to over 70,000. Boutboul was left with 45,000 and a look of sadness.
A selection of the day's leaders when it was fresh and new, with their current stacks (and Martin Hruby who appears to be our current chip leader). It seems like all of them have dropped a little, with Houghton having half his original stack - but still a better-than-average 90k.
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and there was nothing special about this pot yet. Rybachenko (the preflop raiser) bet out 5,100. Samoilenko raised to 13,000 and before you could blink twice a big stack of yellow 5k chips had slid out in front of Rybachenko and it was "All-in/Call" moments later.
to bust him, while Rybachenko remained impassive, stacking up a healthy 200k.
board. It looked as though Szymon Pieszczoch - the young man who was second in chips going into the day, and who would score very well in Scrabble - had bet out 23,500. Yuriy Nesterenko had raised to 55,000 and was sitting back in his chair, gazing around the room (things of note to see - a press member brazenly flouting the no-flash rule; also a tourist having his photo taken with Boris Becker), so he didn't notice Pieszczoch going all in for 144,200 in total.
joined the 
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vs. Dwan's 
and Dwan loses a few of the chips he's made so far today.
for top pair, top kicker, but Zaicik flipped 
