Jani Vilmunen -- who already won the PLO event this week, lucky chap -- raised to 4,800 form the cutoff. Over to Wooka Kim on the button, who raised all in for frankly not very much. The blinds folded, and then back to Vilmunen, who made the call.
Back to Ran Azor's table, and Mr. Azor raised to 4,700. Michael Duerr called, only for Sam Chartier to push all in for 25,700 total. Azor folded, but after some minutes of silent dwelling, Duerr made the call.
Duerr:
Chartier:
Chartier rivered a nine for good measure, and he more than doubled up.
Seated at the upstairs feature table, Mr. Elijah Berg seems to have produced some sort of brochure for the occasion -- an apparently professionally produced panoramic montage of photos of his kids has been unfolded and propped up in front of his chips. "Wow, these all your children?" wondered Leo Margets. It seems so.
Ran Azor seems to have enjoyed an early double up to around 100,000. We're not sure how it happened, but Azor seems to have got it in from early position with which spiked a king against a player holding some sort of ace.
Tony Cousineau just upped his chances of a min-cash after he got his chips in with against Ben Roberts' and promptly smacked the board to double up to around 50,000.
Roberts, meanwhile, is crippled down to less than 10,000.
Hello and welcome back to the now worryingly familiar confines of the Empire Casino in London's Leicester Square, where we are within minutes of Day 3 kicking off.
92 players survived the Day 2 carnage, but as we only played four levels yesterday, the carnage should be continuing well into today. Ian Munns leads the pack by an enormous margin, but with a bunch of experienced and well-known tournament pros hot on his heels, it's anyone's game yet.
Players are filing in to reclaim their respective chips and the like, and we are expecting play to get underway only slightly later than advertised. Please stand by.