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It has just been announced that play will continue tonight until we are in the money, whether we hit it this level or not. We are just a few places away now - 111 players remain with 104 places paying out.
![Ole Kristian [Removed:332]](https://s.pnimg.net/GEkawafj1cvVfesCXztwVlzqpeR_LieGYKxONK8FXjY/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/Nzk2LzkzL3g1ZmMy/ODM4NjAzLmpwZw.webp)
Chris Min Lee exits with the bubble in sight after a flop check-raise against permanent monster stack Ole [Removed:332]. His final ~80,000 went in on a 
flop, after he'd let [Removed:332] bet 20,000. [Removed:332], still stacking a lake of chips from the hand before, made the call. He held 
for top pair, while Lee's 
had the big diamond but no live ace.
He bricked the turn and river 
and with a handshake he brought the tournament to around the hand for hand stage.
Ole [Removed:332] has over 600,000, stacked in such messy towers we're going to need dealers' help to get his accurate count...
A pre-bubble casualty, we lost Cathy Hong after she reshoved with 
against the button's 
going out just on the cusp of the money.
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have 104 players who will be getting paid and one who will not. Please stand by.
You could have cut the tension with a butter knife as Jean-Noel Thorel in the big blind had his tournament life at risk on the very last hand of Level 15. Originally the day was scheduled to end at this very minute, but as we're at the pure bubble stage they've decided to carry on...
Thorel had just 30,000 or so, but also had 
- a just-in-time fingernails-on-cliff-edge monster hand which held against 
and gave him a 15bb stack back.
Meanwhile in the Main Tournament Arena (most tables have been consolidated, Pierre Neuville demonstrates the big blind bubble dwell, so effectively that the dealer asked him, "Do you know it's on you?"
"Of course I do, it's not my first tournament," he smiled, standing up and peering like a meerkat for all-ins around the room. No one busted; he folded.
That's different from the bubble burst. It's when you pause for 15 minutes, colour up the black 100 chips and then return to lose one player guaranteeing the rest a payday of at least €15,000...
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The unscheduled seventh level of the day begins. The bubble remains intact.
We are still on the bubble. Among the short stacks are Sam Chartier, Jeffrey Hakim and Fatima Moreira de Melo, but none of them have taken a risk yet, the prospect of a minimum €15,000 payday hovering tantalisingly above them if they can just hold on.
Meanwhile Xuan Liu had no such fear, moving all in with 
and getting a call from Ted Forrest holding . The board ran out 
and Liu doubled to around 170,000, Forrest finishing the hand with 120,000. Victor Ramdin told them after the hand that he'd folded 
by the way; another player said he'd folded 
.
Well it was coming...
There were many short stacks on other tables, but Damien Rony moved all in for his last 45,000 over the top of Ivan Freitez' raise to 12,000 - a quick call followed and the table suddenly had spectators three rows deep.
Rony: 
Freitez: 
The flop came 
to South American cheers and the cheers got louder on the 
turn. "TEN OF SPADES" shouted one railer in a loud and vociferous voice. The river was the 
and the room erupted.
Rony misses out on the €15,000 prize money, everyone else gets paid and now the day is over.
