In The Wake of the Bubble

With short stacks shoving all around the room and a mad rush of min-cashers headed to the to the cage, fortunes change fast in the wake of the bubble on the European Poker Tour.

Team PokerStars SportsStars Fatima Moreira de Melo felt the pain of that, going into the bubble with a big stack, then finding herself on the wrong end of the set-over-set debacle reported earlier. Moments ago, she continued to slide down the counts, raising it up to 12,000 preflop, then calling off when France's Herve Boulan shipped 34.500 right behind her.

Moreira de Melo called with the and Boulan was racing for his tournament life, holding the .

Fours held on board.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the room, Greek player Evangelos Terzoudis has just been moved to a new seat after a number of short stacks hit the exit at his table and it broke. He brought more than 740,000 with him, and apparently, a spot near the top of the counts.