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By the by, our hour at this level is up - and it's time for this level to start all over again. As if by magic, all the players in the Main Event area have turned into the players who were previously on their dinner break. We will be repeating Level 7 for the benefit of those who missed it last time, and at the end of this level the whole of our remaining field will be together once more.
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Luca Falaschi, who went deep at EPT London recently, has come a cropper, his 
failing to spike against Mexican online qualifier Alejandro Passy's 
. The board came down an unequivocal 
, and Falaschi threw his hands up in a manner that can only be described as Italian, before taking his leave.
Just two hands after the hand elegantly explained below took place, Atanas Gueorguiev and Dermot Blain locked horns once again.
Blain got things under way with a raise from early position to 1,500, two players folded, Nicholas Katovsky called, as did Gueorguiev in the big blind. All three players checked the 
flop.
Turn: 
After seeing the flop checked around, Gueorguiev took a stab at the pot with a 2,800 bet but he found that Irishman Blain was going nowhere. However, his bet forced Katovsky out of the pot, leaving just two players to see the 
peel off on the river.
After betting the turn, Gueorguiev continued the aggression and put out a 6,000 bet on the river, which was enough to send Blain's hand into muck. This could be the start of a very intersting dynamic bewteen the two.
Atanas Gueorguiev opened to 1,325 from the button and Dermot Blain called from the big blind to see a 
flop. Blain checked, Gueorguiev bet 1,600, and Blain made a quick call without looking up from the felt.
Blain checked again on the 
turn and this time Gueorguiev checked behind while staring intently at Blain who remained staring intently at the board.
The river came down the 
and Blain checked again. Gueorguiev bet 3,000, and Blain now gave it up. Gueorguiev, who's got two EPT finals and an Irish Open final to his name, making him number one in the all-time money list in his native Bulgaria, increased his stack to 40,000. Blain took the loss with equanimity - on 95,000 after that, he's still one of our bigger stacks.
As so often happens in these tournaments, someone rises to prominence from relative obscurity and at this precise moment that someone is Loic Sa. Sa has been hidden beneath his hood all morning but eventually took it off to show us what he looks like during this important hand.
Sa opened the action with a raise of 1,350 and the player to his direct left made the call as did Team Pokerstars Pro Andre Akkari who was sat in the small blind - the player in the big blind also made the call. So we had a family pot and the dealer gave us a 
flop and Sa lead out for 3,325. The player to his direct left kept looking at the players in the blinds before eventually moving all in for 23,000. Both the players in the blinds folded and Sa made the call.
Sa turned over for second pair and a flush draw and his opponent turned over 
for an over pair and a backdoor flush and straight draws.
The turn was the and Sa took the lead with two pair. The river was 
and Sa had eliminated his opponent and moved into the top spot with ~135,000 in chips
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Particularly hard this time, as we now commence an incredibly complicated dinner break. The details are rather difficult to put into words, but the basic gist of it is that half of the field is going on a 90 minute dinner break now while the other half will be playing one more level; at the end of 90 minutes they're all going to swap. No rest for the wicked, by which we mean the media.
Back in 15 minutes, but only half the field will be coming back with us.
One of the things we love about this game is the suspense and tension that it can produce without us even seeing any cards. We have just witnessed such a spot involving John O'Shea and Season Five EPT London Runner Up Michael Tureniec.
Tureniec started the fight with an opening raise of 1,000 from the cut off and O'Shea made the three-bet to 2,900. There was a silence around the table as the players realised this was a potential powder keg of a situation. They were not left waiting too long though before Tureniec made it 7,400 in total with his four-bet. Again silence and it was only broken by the sound of O'Shea's chips as he made the five-bet making it 14,800 in total.
Tureniec folded and O'Shea exposed an Ace to the table before adding the extra chips to his haul.
Cristiano Blanco finds himself with a very healthy stack of 74,625 chips after extracting maximum value from Team PokerStars' Richard Toth.
Toth opened with a 900 raise from the hijack seat but neither Blanco nor Luca Falaschi in the blinds believed his hand was strong and they called his raise.
Flop: 
Blanco checked, as did Falaschi but Toth had no intention of letting his opponents see a turn for free and silently put chips totalling 1,600 into the centre of the felt. Blanco sat fiddling with his chips before methodically counting out 4,000 and announcing his intention to raise. This was enough to fold out Falaschi but Toth stayed in the hand and made the call.
Turn: 
Once again Blanco tapped the table and Toth opted to check behind.
River:
For the third time in the hand, Blanco checked, which prompted Toth to come out firing with a 6,300 bet, a bet that his opponent quickly called.
Toth showed the for ace-high but Blanco had him crushed all along with 
for trip five. Blanco's stack swelled to 74,625 whilst Toth's has dipped to 42,500.
