Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (small blind) checked an flop to Canio Pietrpertosa who bet 25,000. ElkY now made it 76,000 and looked like he was trying not to breathe while Piertrpertosa tanked up. Eventually Piertrapertosa flat-called and they went to the turn.
ElkY checked the turn and Pietrapertosa checked behind, but come the river ElkY promptly set him in. After a long, long period of soul-searching (his own or ElkY's, we cannot say), Pietrapertosa laid it down and was down to 125,000. ElkY meanwhile moved on up to around 550,000.
Markus Lehmann raised to 12,000 with just 55,000 behind, only for Michael Piper to stick in a stack of assorted high-denomination chips, enough to cover him. Lehmann tanked up for a long time under the watchful glass eye of a German media member's video camera lens - and then folded, quickly flashing his cards at the camera to everyone's amusement.
Sebastian Ruthenberg opened to 11,000 from early position only to see Claus Uhrskov three-bet to 26,000 on the button. Ruthenberg called the extra to see a flop, and he checked in the dark as the dealer spread out . Uhrskov took his time thinking it over before checking it back.
Fourth street brought the to pair the board. Reaching for chips now, Ruthenberg slid out a bet of 28,000. Uhrskov, acting very deliberately, cut the chips out of his stack and stared at them for another minute before making the call.
The last card off was the , and Ruthenberg fired again, 48,000 this time. The bet represented about one third of Uhrskov's remining chips, and he would take another couple minutes to consider before reluctantly making the call.
Ruthenberg tabled for the flush, and his opponent flung his cards into the muck with a frustrated scowl all over his face. Ruthenberg is up to about 375,000 after that nice pot.
Mohsen Jalal Tayfeh Shokor has escaped the sadness of being a bubblee after his cracked Marco Fabrini's all-in preflop on a board. A joyful Shokor was delighted while still apologising to Fabrini.
Arnaud Mattern has been all in preflop twice in the last orbit. The first time he shipped it, nobody called and he flashed his . No action on the second shove either, and he showed . A couple pots of blinds and antes have moved his stack up close to 100,000.
Andrea Federico is being carefully watched by the floormen at the moment, he is nursing a short stack but spending a couple of minutes dwelling for every hand.
He had the clock called on during one hand preflop and finally folded with four seconds remaining. Gerald, one of the tournament directors, came by and checked Federico's hand after it had been mucked and told the Italian he was now on a one minute clock every hand.
We arrived to see Kelly Kim all in and just about to turn into all out. We're guessing the chips went in pre though - they usually do in spots like this.