That Table Formerly Known As The Feature Table has now broken, and its denizens scattered about the room. But some people may be happier with their new seats than others.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, for one. Of all the seats in all the Hilton, he is now occupying the one right next to his lady friend, Catherine Hong. ElkY has position, as it were, but Hong has the chip advantage - 40,000 to ElkY's 15,000 or so. We expect to see some action soon.
The flop of 
was checked to Martins Adeniya who fired 5,275. Stephane Albertini made the call before Arnaud Mattern check-raised to 16,650. Adeniya called and Albertini folded.
The 
came on the turn and Mattern shoved for around 40,000 and a pained Adeniya counted down his stack before making the call as the cameras surrounded him.
Mattern tapped the table, "Good call," flipping 
live at least against Adeniya's 
. The 
came on the river for the Frenchman though, and a visibly distraught Adeniya was disgusted and temporarily left the table for a few seconds. Mattern is up to 125,000 while Adeniya has just shrapnel left.
Konstantin Bucherl has doubled up to 40,000 or so, somehow managing to get it in with 
in a very good spot against 
. The ladies held on the 
board, and the WSOP $10,000 PLO finalist got the lot.
During the last break, Gloria caught up with one of the finalists from this event last year, Team PokerStars Asia's Raymond Wu. Have a gander:
Marcel Luske has been eliminated, Chance Kornuth had made a "live misclick" by accidentally betting 10,200 into a pot of around 2,400 on a 
against Luske and Neil Channing. Luske pushed all-in for about 19,000 and Channing got out the way, Kornuth called flipping for a set against Luske's 
. Kornuth made quads by the river and that was all she wrote for the flying Dutchman.
It's really rather odd...
We're five and a half levels deep into this thing, which means registration has been closed for more than four hours. Yet, we still can't get an official number of runners from the CardRoom Magic staff that is handling the registration here.
We're told it's either 338 or 339 runners today, but then again, we were told 357 at one point. They keep tell us the number will be finalized soon, but there's apparently been little progress on that front for now. Until we hear more, your guess is as good as ours for the number of players who've turned up today.
It's lots, how's that for an official number?
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
71,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
60,000 | |
|
60,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
||
|
59,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
54,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
||
|
54,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
||
|
54,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
49,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
47,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
||
|
43,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
43,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
|
|
41,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
40,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
37,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
36,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
35,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
34,000 | |
|
29,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
||
|
24,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
24,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
23,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
||
|
22,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
21,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
||
|
20,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
The flop read 
and John Racener bet out; the two other players in the hand, one of whom we didn't recognise and the other of whom was EPT Online Qualifier of the Year Pierre Neuville, both folded.
We mention this purely because even after winning that small pot, November Niner Racener, who spent the early part of the day on the main feature table where we couldn't spy on him, is at a lacklustre 10,000.
In fact, that whole earlier feature table moved on to the floor at the last break, meaning that we now get to feast our eyes also on Neuville (50,000), Michel Abecassis (85,000) and ElkY (15,000).
...From the row nearest the feature table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000
64,000
|
64,000 |
|
|
||
|
93,000 | |
|
70,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
70,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
||
|
57,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
56,000 | |
|
|
47,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
42,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
40,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
40,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
33,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
||
|
30,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
||
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
27,000 | |
|
23,000 | |
|
20,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
||
|
19,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
9,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
9,000 | |
|
||
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
