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All we caught was the very tail end of the hand; what we could ascertain was that the sleepless Praz Bansi was holding 
on an 
board and announcing, "Sick," while an unhappy David Lascar was collecting his belongings and leaving the table.
Bansi is up to around 130,000. Could this be the EPT that finally breaks his cashing curse?
Battle of the short stacks at Table Naydenov/Cailly.
First up Lucille Cailly opened for 3,900 and received one call before Simeon Naydenov shoved from the button for 13,600. One by one his opponents all folded, and he increased his stack to a still worryingly short 25,000.
A few hands later and it was Cailly's turn to push her stack across the line, this time for 27,500 from the big blind to several limps around the table. Everyone folded and she's now a little more comfortable on 38,000.
Mathew Frankland is storming ahead with the chip lead after Irish Open winner James Mitchell check-called his stack off over all three streets of a 
board.
Frankland turned over and Mitchell simply mucked his hand and left the table.
Nacho Barbero has been knocked out after getting his 33 big blind stack in with 
and running into another player's 
. Meanwhile Matt Perrins, who won an IPT title last year and finished 10th at the EPT Grand Final, has also been knocked out having ran into .
There's around 350 players remaining.
Start-of-day chip leader Guillaume de la Gorce raised, but faced a fairly chunky reraise from Lithuanian hero Kristijonas Andrulis. De la Gorce eyed him up suspiciously for a while before making the call.
It would all be over very swiftly on the 
flop, though. De la Gorce checked and Andrulis calmly bet another 11,500. With the minimum of fuss, de la Gorce gave it up.
Current score: de la Gorce 180,000, Andrulis 135,000.
James Mitchell has just increased his stack size to 115,00 after this hand. Apologies for the lack of description but we caught the hand midway through the action.
Mitchell had raised pre flop from late position and Andrea Ferrari called in the small blind. The flop was 
, Ferrari checked and Mitchell bet and Ferrari called. Both players checked the 
turn before Ferrari shoved the 
river. Mitchell took his time before calling.
Mitchell: 
Ferrari: 
Mitchell wins the pot with his trip eights and eliminates Ferrari in the process.
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
You have 15 minutes to do whatever it is you need to do. Back soon.
Frank Op de Woerd didn't actually say that, but like Clark Gable he was spotted heading out the door.
Turns out a gentleman raised to 3,500 in early position and the gentleman in the small blind called before Op de Woerd shoved from the big blind for 17,000 more. The original raiser folded, but the small blind made the call. It was looking great for Op de Woerd...
Op de Woerd: 
Small blind: 
Board: 
And with that, the hopes and dreams of everyone in the press room were hurled to the ground where they shattered into a million tiny pieces of disappointment. GG WP webjoker.
Chris Brammer is one of the slightly less well-known UK players playing here today, but the Brit is still well-regarded by peers, however he just opened to 2,700 from the button and Fabrizio Baldassari made the call in the big blind.
The flop came 
and both players checked to see the turn, Baldassari checked a second time and Brammer bet 3,000 only for Baldassari to suddenly to check-raise to 8,700. Brammer tanked before making the call and called an additional 9,000 on the river, the Italian flipped though and the full house was good enough for the pot.
