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These players did not return from dinner (or returned to play the turbo side event at the back of the tournament room), so we can only conclude that they busted in the last few hands before the break:
ElkY Grospellier
Kevin MacPhee
Nikolay Evdakov
Michael Piper
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
We are now on a 90 minute dinner break. Play will restart at 20.15pm (GMT+2) or maybe a little later if people get stuck in lift again like yesterday.
Alessandro De Michele just got very lucky, all-in for about 10,000 on a 
board against Kenny Hallaert's 
, the 
seemed to reduce De Michele's chances even more but the 
river suddenly surprised everyone and brought groans from the table as the Italian doubled through the Dutchman.
We only caught the very tail end of this truly bizarre hand and reconstructed the action from the multilingual chattering at the end, but the upshot of this craziness is that Perica Bukara, the man in the great suit, is our new chip leader on around 130,000.
We understand that Bukara raised to 1,100 and Jose Obadia called. There was another call as well, before Hanno Liiva made it 10 or 15,000 from the blinds. Bukara went all in, the two callers folded, and Liiva seems to have called all in.
The hands:
Bukara: 
Liiva: 
Board: 
The expression on Liiva's face was just indescribable as he busted out and catapulted Bukara into the chip lead.
Said Obadia to Bukara, after Liiva had left: "My friend, if you don't say all in, I say all in. And I win too, ten jack spades, I make a flush. " [In Obadia's awesome Spanish accent, this was pronounced "ten jeck spides".] "I was sure it was a bluff."
The debate about how the hand played out continued as we backed away from the table.
This was an extremely long and frustrating hand. We're just warning you up front. But at least it will only take a few seconds to read. Andrew "Tufat" Teng raised preflop, and Lithuanian online qualifier Kestutis Slankauskas called in the big blind.
Flop: 
- Slankauskas checked to Tufat, who bet 1,525. Then Slankauskas swiftly check-raised to 3,725. Teng stared at the bet, his mouth in a slight frown, his eyes hidden behind his reflective sunglasses.
Tank minute 1
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Tank minute 2
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Tank minute 3
Teng decided to flat call, leaving himself 18,000 behind.
Turn: - Slankauskas bet 5,100, and Tufat went back into his familiar pose.
Tank minute 1
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Tank minute 2
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Michael Piper left to go to the bathroom.
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Tank minute 3
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Tank minute 5
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Piper returned from the bathroom, having not missed a hand.
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Tank minute 6
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Finally, Tufat gave up his hand.
EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg was not in his seat, and indeed we found him across the room, chatting to a buddy at the table. Our knowledge of Scandie languages is a little sketchy, but we presume he was retelling the story of his demise. As he did so he managed to knock over several drinks on a side table, leaving a large puddle of Coca Cola on the table. Undeterred, he headed for a different buddy at a different table and continued chatting, leaving the unhappy possessor of the Coke shouting, "Waitress!" into the crowd.
We found Matthias de Meulder raising to 1,000 under the gun only for Michael Piper to shove for around 5,000 with an air of depressed resignation, whether real or affected. Either way, it folded back around to de Meulder who decided to give him respect and folded.
Johan Storakers opened preflop to 1,050 from the hijack, Michael Greco made the call on the button while Vadim Markushevski also called from the big blind.
All three checked the 
board before both Markushevski and Storakers also checked the 
turn. Greco didn't though and quickly slid out 1,725 which managed to win him the pot fairly speedily.
In a raised pot Andrey Mitlyansky led out for 5,000 and Shaun Deeb made the call on a 
flop. Both players checked the 
turn before Mitlyansky bet 11,025 on the 
river.
Deeb thought for about 30 seconds before making the call but could only nod his head and muck when shown 
. Deeb drops to about 15,000.
