The most amusing sight over the last quarter of an hour? The ten minutes it took to move Per Linde's bucketload of chips across from the feature table to the outer table.
He then played two hands and now they're spending another ten minutes moving him back again...
We're close to our final table now, as Simon Hanninger busts out. Picking up 
he moved in preflop, but Joel Nordqvist re-shoved behind him with the dominating 
which held along the board of 
. Quick and painless (or painful if you're Hanninger); one table will play to a final of eight. This was Hanninger's first ever big live tournament and he seems happy with a 10th place finish.
The newly-doubled Nikolas Liakos raised to 50,000 and Jens Lauridsen shoved for around 400,000. Snap-call.
Lauridsen: 
Liakos:
Board: 
Lauridsen valiantly cried, "Seks! Seks!" [that's six in Danish, behave yourselves, the more puerile-minded of you] but the seks never came and Lauridsen was soon heading for the rail. Liakos has effectively tripled his stack in two hands, and is up to around 1.75 million.
Nikolas Liakos min-raised from the button and to his immediate left Kevin Iacofano reraised to 130,000. Liakos shoved for 622,000, Iacofano called, and it was an easy double up for the Swede.
Iacofano: 
Liakos:
Board: 
making Liakos the slightly bigger flush.
Liakos is now up there with his fellow Swedes, at 1.3 million.
John Eames opened to 50,000 from UTG+1 and Joel Nordkvist made the call from the big blind but the 
board was checked all the way to the river where it was checked to Eames who bet 56,000. Nordkvist thought for a moment and called.
Eames turned over 
and that was enough to win the pot.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 2,000
15 minutes of relaxation for Per Linde, 15 stressful minutes of mental preparation for everyone else.
Kevin Iacofano has emerged the victor in the Khan Wars this time although there is definitely a battle going on.
Mudassar Khan had opened preflop with Iacofano calling on the button and Jen Lauridsen called in the big blind. The flop of 
was checked to Iacofano who bet 65,000, Lauridsen folded but Khan check-raised to 150,000. Iacofano responded with a 3-bet to 270,000 but Khan then 4-bet to 600,000. Iacofano folded and Khan, to applause from the rail, showed 
.
Nikolas Liakos turned to Iacofano and said with a smile, "He had the best hand right?"
A couple of hands later Iacofano opened to 46,000 and Khan was the only caller in the big blind. Iacofano bet 55,000 on the flop, 140,000 on the 
turn and finally 428,000 on the 
river. Khan check-called the whole way but mucked when Iacofano showed the flopped house holding of .
The PokerStars qualifier now is over the 2 million mark.
The momentum on the non-featured table has been with Mudassar Khan recently. He's increased his stack to over 1.2 million, most recently calling down an out of position Jens Lauridsen. Lauridsen limped the small blind, and Khan raised to 65k in the big blind. Lauridsen called.
The flop: 
. Check to Khan, who bet 70k, which was called immediately.
The turn: Now Lauridsen led out 120k which received a quick call. Big change from the slow decision-making we've seen from these players in recent times.
The river: Lauridsen bet out 214k. This represented around half of Khan's remaining chips. He counted it out and made the call.
Lauridsen threw over his jack-high: 
. Khan's 
took the pot while Lauridsen briefly removed his sunglasses in apparent frustration.
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