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Kevin Vandersmissen is up to 127,000 after he eliminated Gert Roland Zumkehr after an all-in preflop battle, the 
against Zumkehr's 
for a circa 50,000 pot.
The board came a Belgian friendly 
and the EPT Snowfest runner-up is sitting with quite a decent stack at this point here.
Marcin Horecki is out after he squeezed with 
against a couple of limpers for his final 20,000. The first folded but the second took an almightly long time to call with 
.
Horecki apparently flopped "a billion outs" but none of them hit and now the Polish pro is looking for a train back home, but not before he has a shave. "My wife will kill me if I come home with a beard!"
Overnight chip leader fallen on hard times Sander Berndsen made a bit of a recovery, but is now back down under 100,000 after betting on the river of a 
board. Ben Wilinofsky, who had initially checked the river from the small blind position, check-raised him to 25,000 and after a short, unhappy period in the tank, Berndsen folded.
Wilinofsky is up to around 190,000.
Well, that was a short spell at the top of the chip counts for Cristian Dragomir - he's now back down to 145,000 after doubling up Jason Helder.
We caught it on the turn of the 
board, with Dragomir betting out 28,400. On the button, Helder went all in for an additional 54,400. At this point a cameraman pushed right in front of us, completely blocking the view - but this was OK, as Dragomir tanked up for several minutes, easily enough time to manoeuvre ourselves into a different vantage point.
After a good five minutes, Dragomir suddenly piped up, "You good?" And just a second or two later he made the call.
Dragomir: 
for top pair and a flush draw
Helder: 
for a set
River: making Helder quads
The American online qualifier doubled to 220,000, not far off the chip lead.
Last year's third place finisher Marc Inizan is out, his pocket nines no good against pocket queens. GG.
Thomas Bichon has just won one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far after he eliminated two players in the same hand.
John Eames had opened preflop with before Bichon reraised behind with 
then a short-stack moved all-in for 32,000 with 
.
"The short stack makes it tough for me to fold there," admitted a disappointed Eames afterwards, "I have to shove and hope Thomas doesn't have a hand."
But Bichon had the boots and a board of 
gave him a huge pot. Bichon is up to 285,000.
Peter Eastgate has kept his stack above average for quite a while, and just picked up a tidy pot without showdown with a flop shove. Pedro Aldave bet out 10k into two opponents on a 
flop, and found Alek Samardzic calling before Eastgate moved in for 103k more. This brought a long think from both of them. The bettor was pretty much covered, and counted down his stack for a while before reluctantly folding, while caller Samardzic had a healthy 160,000+ stack but also declined to call.
Eastgate: 150,000
Players now have 15 minutes to rush outside and across the road to Starbucks/McDonalds etc...
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 200
Just before the break, perma-short stack Arnaud Mattern doubled again, this time to a roughly half-the-average 50,000 when his pocket nines held against .
