Allen Bari, Joseph Cheong and Kfir Yamin have all been eliminated. We'll see if we can gather some information as to how they busted.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Melanie Weisner is out after losing a race to former EPT champ Antonio Matias. All the chips went in preflop with Weisner holding 
. Matias held 
and hit trips on the 
board. He's up to 110,000.
Jack Ellwood just won his first pot if the day (near enough). He took out Juan Navarrete Azon who was down to 14,000 when he move all-in with pocket eights. The Brit held queens and they stood up on the 
board.
Jose Garnes opened the pot with a raise in early position, and Pius Heinz three-bet shoved for 23,100 from the button. Garnes made the call with his covering stack, and the two men were flipping for Heinz's tournament life.
Showdown
Garnes: 
Heinz: 
The 
flop brought a nod of approval from Heinz, and the turn 
and river kept him safe. That's a double for the November Niner, and he's back close to 50,000 in his bid for an EPT final table as well. Still a long way to go, though.
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
That's another level in the books, and the players are off for another break. This one's 20 minutes; we'll see you back in a bit.
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst is up with the big boys at the top of the chip counts after she cracked pocket aces with her holding of pocket queens.
The unfortunate player to lose out on the 300,000 chip pot was Michael Schurpf. The two both had around 150,000 (Selbst slightly more) and they all went in preflop. The board ran 
to make the American a set.
We've got the brief details on two recent and notable eliminations. It's a pair of EPT champions who've just gone under.
We mentioned Vamplew going broke a moment ago, and we've learned that the EPT London defending champ got his last chips in before the flop with king-queen against ace-queen. That's usually not a good situation in which to find oneself, and the 
board did nothing to save the Scot's tournament life.
Also heading to the rail as we speak is the most recent EPT winner, Tallinn's champion Ronny Kaiser. Kaiser figured was good enough to go with, but he too got his money in dominated. It was Antoine Junillon with the , and the board came 
to end his run at going back-to-back.
By our quick count, we still have seven former EPT champions (and two former EPT Barcelona champions) in contention: Lucien Cohen, Kevin Stani, Jason Mercier, Jan Skampa, and Antonio Matias, along with Kent Lundmark and Sebastian Ruthenberg.
From middle position, 2008 EPT Barcelona seventh-place finisher Sam Chartier raised to 2,500. Daniel Hernandez called from the button, Marius Fritz called from the small blind and Ran Azor called from the big blind. The flop came down and action was checked by Fritz and Azor to Chartier. He fired 4,300 as his continuation bet and only Hernandez made the call.
A third spell fell to the board when the hit the turn. Chartier stayed on the gas and bet 7,800. After a long two or three minutes in the tank, Hernandez fired back with a raise to 15,600. Chartier didn't take long to give it up and dropped back to 46,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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46,000
-14,000
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-14,000 |
couldn't come from behind to beat Hasan Alexander Anter's 
.
flop got through in a heads-up pot.
flop won him a small pot.
