The Stacks They Are A-Changing
Firstly, Jonathan Proudfoot seemed to have recovered from his early knock and with 75k got it all in preflop from late position vs. a big blind Toby Lewis, who was in a re-raising mood with his 
but ran into Proudfoot's 
which held to pretty much halve his shiny new stack.
Across the room Vegard Nygaard, down quite a bit from his high chip point yesterday, bet off David Williams (also now nursing a mid-to-short stack) in a small blind on blind confrontation - but a couple of thousand is a couple of thousand when you're under 40k.
Also a stroke of good fortune for Fabrizio Ascari, whose pocket Threes flopped a house while the player to his left picked up the nut flush draw and got his stack in. A boost in chips for the Italian who has been in good shape chipwise right from the start of the whole tournament.
Here's a selection of other stacks which have seen some fluctuation this hour:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
290,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
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|
220,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
170,000
84,000
|
84,000 |
|
168,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
157,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
95,500
21,500
|
21,500 |
|
|
||
|
77,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
||
|
54,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
||
|
53,500
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
|
||
|
36,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |