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Nicolino Di Carlo has just become our 27th place finisher, his 
no good against Rupert Elder's 
. The board came down an unequivocal 
and the young Elder, as it were, is up to 1.7 million.
26 players remain, and we'll be quitting for the day when we hit 24.
Luciano Longhitano raised to 50,000 on the button. Fabrizio Cataldi was seated in the big blind and he decided the three-bet was a good weapon of choice and he made it 110,000. Longhitano decided to peel one off from position and we saw a flop of 
which they both checked. The turn of was also checked before we had the river. Cataldi bet 65,000 at the sight of this card and Longhitano called.
Cataldi won the hand with 
for the straight.
Cataldi ~ 1,400,000
Longhitano ~ 860,000
Simple hand, which is what we like at this stage of the competition. Dario Nittolo moved all-in and his bet was called by Rupert Elder.
| Nittolo |   |
| Rupert Elder | |
Board: 
Elder ~ 1,900,000
Luigi Pignataro and Nicolas Yunis are sat side by side and both have very healthy chip stacks for this stage of the tournament. Long time chip leader Yunis has just been over taken on the leader board by Pignataro in a hand that played out just seconds before the break.
Pignataro opened up from the button with a bet of 51,000. Yunis three-bet from the small blind making it 145,000 in total, the big blind folded and Pignataro called. Both players called the flop and the turn 
and then we saw the 
on the river. Yunis decided it was a good card to try and steal the pot with a bet 110,000 but Pignataro insta-called.
"You have ace-king?" Asked Yunis.
He didn't have ace-king. He had a very slowly played 
Pignataro ~ 1,900,000
Yunis ~ 1,780,000
I have a funny feeling in my stomach (which is rumbling) that this will be the last level.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
Joe Cada checked the turn of an 
board before calling 114,000 from Yo-Yoer Of The Day Max Heinzelmann. He checked again on the 
river and this time faced a bet of 215,000. Again, he called, but he was soon mucking his hand and counting out the chips to hand over to his opponent when Heinzelmann turned over 
for the rivered straight.
Cada is down to 1.2 million, around the average.
Nobody in the tournament really envies Antonio Russo - he is our extreme short stack right now. He was in fact so short just a few minutes ago that even after doubling through Luigi Pignataro, he is still the statistically unlikeliest player to make Day 5 - he's at 150,000 or five big blinds after the double up.
Russo:
Pignataro: 
Board: 
Rupert Elder opened to 60,000 preflop before Roberto Spada made it 160,000 from the cutoff. Luca Cavecchi then tanked for two minutes before moving all in for around 450,000. Elder quickly folded but Spada called just as fast.
Spada: which had Cavecchi rolling his eyes skywards as...
Cavecchi:
The board came 
and Cavecchi escaped from a bad spot to double up and nearly reach the million chip mark.
Francesco De Vivo has doubled up his paltry stack with 
managing to outdraw Max Heinzelmann's 
in a blind on blind battle when the board came 
.
We're still on 25 players.
