Now that he's got a few chips, Ludovic Lacay is now splashing it about a bit although he just lost a few chips to table mate Simon Mayer after check-calling 7,000 on the turn of a board before the river went check-check.
Neither player wanted to show first, but Mayer eventually turned over and Lacay flashed his before sending it into the muck. The Frenchman has dropped back down to 70,000.
Meanwhile, Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern has been going much slower today, finding it a bit more of a grind. He had opened to 950 with Benny Spindler and the button both calling, but the flop came and it was checked to the young German who fired out 1,600. Mattern and the button both folded.
This tough-looking table will be next to break which might come as a relief to some of its' participants...
No, the fallen players from the EPT Berlin Main Event have not been allowed to buy back in to the tournament in level 7, but a whole host of players have re-packed the second floor in a last minute bid to satellite in to tomorrow's flight. They won't be getting much sleep if they win a seat; the room is heaving and the waitresses can barely navigate between the tables.
Only two of these tables are now still part of the Main Event. Still remaining at them are these players, along with Vegard Vestvik who has a healthy 96,000 himself.
Ben Roberts has nearly doubled through to over 45,000 and taken out Liutauras Armanavicius at the same time. There was no way, really, that the chips weren't going in as both of them had below the starting stack of 30,000 and one had and t'other had . It was Roberts who had the boots and they held up over a board.
"Unlucky," said Roberts who sounded as genuine as I've ever heard a player sound when sympathising with a busto opponent.