A short-stacked Dermot Blain moved all-in preflop and Jeffrey Hakim raised for protection from the button.
Blain: 
Hakim: 
Board: 
and the red-haired Irishman was gone, wishing everyone good luck on his way out of the door.
We caught just a tantalising glimpse of this hand - one of many, by the looks of it, that have gone Fabrice Soulier's way today.
Board: 
Soulier: for two pair
Konstantin Puchkov: nodded and mucked
Soulier is now above the half million mark.
Over in the far corner where no TV crew dare venture, a raising war between Roberto Romanello and another player had culminated in Romanello going all in. His opponent gave it quite a serious tank, but eventually folded, and the EPT Prague winner is now at 145,000.
Antonio Buonanno, who'd taken a few hits, is back up to 170,000 after knocking out a shortie who got it in good with 
against Buonanno's 
but fell foul of the Italian on the 
board.
PokerStars Team Pro Jan Heitmann didn't last too much longer after doubling Vestvik. He gave himself a pickle getting to the turn with 56,000 in the middle (and under 45,000 behind) on a 
board, then faced being set in by his opponent Morten Kjaer.
He silently, staringly pondered, regarding his chips and the board (I think - his aviators are very dark). Finally he called all in showing 
for second pair and the straight draw. Kjaer showed 
.
They waited in the tension caused by having to summon a camera crew to watch every all-in-call even though we're still 15 off the money. When they finally gave the dealer the OK, Heitmann said, "Stop! OK carry on," nearly giving his table a collective heart attack.
The river brought the and a gracious exit from the German pro.
Peter Eastgate raised to 6,500 from middle position and Thomas Bichon raised to 16,300 from the button but then former EPT Prague finalist [Removed:197] reraised to 33,300 from the small blind with about 70,000 behind.
Eastgate quickly got out of the way and Bichon set Nasr all-in, quick call and...
Bichon: 
[Removed:198]: 
Disappointment.
"You have a double flush draw," said Ben Roberts to Bichon. The flop came as the TV crew rushed over to film the action. The turn meant Nasr was freerolling and inadvertently a TV crew shouted "Hold" meaning for the dealer to wait but it sounded as though he was sweating Bichon!
The 
river meant a chopped pot as both players made a small profit out, splitting Eastgate's raise.
Giuseppe Pantaleo is the name being whispered in the press room as rumours of a crazy hand drift to us (and give him a 600k stack).
In a battle of the blinds that got so out of hand it had totally escaped, Pantaleo three-bet the small blind (folds all round to them) and he called.
The flop was 
. The small blind led - Pantaleo called.
The turn: 
The small blind bet pot (c.60k). Pantaleo called.
The river: The small blind shoved for 87,000. Pantaleo called.
With offsuit.
And the sb muck-busted.
We are just 12 places off the money, so we are hazarding a guess that even with the TV crew insisting that every all in be paused until they get there to film it, we won't be making it to the end of the next level.
Back in 15 minutes.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
You've got to feel for the guy (despite his yo-yoing through Day 1) nearly getting to the money and then finding a similar stack moving all in over the top of his minraise when all the time he was sitting on 
.
He called and was up against 
. 60k+ looked like it was moments away from being added to his stack. Instead, the board ran out ...
...
with the gutshot being his opponent's only hope on the turn.
He got it, saying, "Wow. Wowowowowow," which is going to make great TV.
