At Mark Vos' table, a hand broke out with six limpers to the pot, including the vocal Aussie, and all six of them folded to the big blind's 2,500 raise.
Elsewhere, the following players who once held seats in the tournament have been spotted in a nearby cash game:
Maybe arriving on time was not a bad thing for Patrik Antonius. When he won this event a couple of years ago, he hadn't even taken his seat at this stage. This time around he has amassed one of the largest stacks, and is among the 196 players who remain. He currently has 31,000 in chips.
Dario Minieri is not known for sitting on a stack and true to form he has dropped from 30,000 down to 6,000 and does not look too happy.
The biggest stack I have counted thus far belongs to Thomas Wahlroos, who has about 35,000 in chips.
The pace has increased as we enter the sixth and final level of the day. Thomas Wahlroos just increased his stack to 40,000 after he busted a short-stack with his A-Q. The shortie had K-K and called Thomas' pre-flop raise of 800, leaving himself only 1,200 behind. Another caller in late position folded on a low flop, giving Thomas value to call with ace-high, duly catching an ace on the river to win the pot.
During the very first level, WPT winner Surinder Sunar was knocked down to 2,500 in chips. He is still hanging on and currently has 3,500 chips, having reached a peak of 4,500 earlier.
Sander Lyloff, winner of the Barcelona leg of this year's EPT tour, just took down a 6,000 pot on the turn with the board showing: . A 3,600 bet, first to speak, was all it took.
As the end of the day approaches, so have the tournament lives of many hopefuls. Casually walking through the tournament area, I witnessed the following hands:
v.s. all in pre-flop and the eights win a 12,000 chip pot.
Moments later, another player gets his beaten by when the board falls . The loser of the hand was not too happy with the call as he had pushed for 4,600 and the other player called with not much more behind.