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Ville Haavisto was in the small blind when he got into a raising war with Jens Kyllönen in the big blind. Kyllönen was happy to get his 16,425 in with 
. Too bad for Haavisto, all he could muster was 
. Kyllönen looked extremely nervous as he had to dodge his opponent's live cards to stay alive. He was finally able to breath again when the board ran out 
, giving him a timely double up. Haavisto, on the other hand, dropped to 27,000.
Action folded to Manuel Bevand in late position, and Vitalijs Zavorotnijs flatted on the button. The small blind also called, but no calling for Kevin Vandersmissen in the big blind. Instead, he moved all in for 14,000. Bevand called to put him at risk. Then, rather than flat a second time, Zavorotnijs reraised to 30,000. The small blind ran for cover, and Bevand was also forced to fold. Time to see the hands. Vandersmissen had a chance to triple up with 
, but he was in bad shape against Zavorotnijs' 
. The board came [ksqdec3c7h], and with no help, Vandersmissen headed for the exit. Zavorotnijs is up to 72,000.
Pham Thanh Hai raised in the cutoff and Manuel Bevand reraised in the big blind. Hai flat-called and they saw a flop.
Flop: 
Bevand bet out and Hai tanked up for some time before announcing all in to cover Bevand. Bevand called all in, and they flipped their cards.
Hai: some rather sneakily played and now outdrawn 
Bevand: and in fine shape for the double up with two pair
The turn and river were a harmless 
and 
respectively and Bevand duly doubled to 80,000. Hai chuckled a little as he dropped to 40,000.
It's a sad end for everyone's favourite French blogger Benjamin Gallen, who got it all-in preflop with against compatriot Manuel Bevand's but the latter caught an ace on the river to win a 43,000 pot to send 'Benjo' to the rail and boost his own stack to over 100,000.
Meanwhile Derek Lerner is feeling down after losing a 40,000 pot with to a Russian player's 
.
Richard Ashby has also been eliminated with vs vs all-in preflop three-way.
The field is thinning quickly, and those who have made it to this point are on their last break of the day. They'll be back in 15 to play one last level.
Last level of the night, folks.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
The board read 
when Perttu Bergius checked in the big blind. His lone opponent, Voitto Rintala, bet 3,500 on the button. Bergius slowly made it 8,000, and Rintala snap-shoved. Bergius found a fold, and Rintala showed 
for a whole world of draws. He's up to 44,000.
Gregory Bucci was already all in from the hijack for 10,600 and Dmitry Bezlepkin had called from the cutoff when Jeffrey Hakim reshoved from the big blind for 24,000 more. Bazlepkin made the call, and they were all three of them on their proverbial backs, Hakim swearing as he saw what he was up against.
Bucci: 
Bezlepkin: 
Bucci: 
But wait!
Board: 
"Jeez, no diamonds?" mused Hakim as he more than doubled to around 90,000. Bucci meanwhile took his leave.
"What happened?" called over a buddy of Hakim's from another table.
"Just got lucky," Hakim told him and sat back down.
Antoine Amourette, who finished 3rd in the WPT in Paris in May has just suffered a bit of a setback to knock him back down under the 6-figure mark.
He had put Guillermo Montero all-in preflop with but the Venezuelan turned over 
and survived a minor sweat on the 
board to double up to around 65,000.
Amourette has about 70,000 remaining.
