Players are taking the last 15-minute break of the day. When they come back, they'll play two more levels or until 40 players remain, whichever happens first.
Joseph Serock and Trond Eidsvig almost had that 250,000 pot again. The player on the button opened for 7,000 and Joseph re-popped it to 23,000 from the small blind. Trond then made it 70,000 from his 110,000 stack.
The button promptly folded and Joseph glanced at Trond sitting next to him before doing the same.
Luca Pagano opened the pot from UTG, Tim Vance reraised to 20,000 from middle position, and Pagano moved all in. Vance paced around and tanked for nearly five minutes as a crowd gathered around the table. Vance finally folded face-up.
"Good bet," said Vance as Pagano dragged the pot. Pagano's stack is now up to nearly 90,000.
Rasmus Nielsen opened for 7,000 in mid position. Kenneth Ruan Hemmingsen made a reraise to 18,000 total. Everyone else got out of the way and then Rasmus moved all in for another 48,100 on top.
Kenneth took over three minutes to make his decision which looked to be a genuinely tough one. Eventually he folded and Rasmus showed the which provoked a look of disgust from Kenneth.
Timothy Vance just busted two players in the same hand. We were alerted by a massive crowd developing around his table. By the time we negotiated our way to the front of the crowd it was all over.
The board read .
Timothy Vance:
Johannes Korsar:
Kresten Nielsen:
Timothy is now up to 170,000 after eliminating three players in the last few hands.
Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, who won the Online Player of the Year award at the Scandinvian poker awards which preceded this tournament, has been eliminated.
Jonas pushed for 28,000 from the small blind and Timothy Vance made a quick call with .
Nebuchad was at it with , but he went ahead as the flop came down . He was still ahead on the turn but that gave Vance more outs and he duly hit when the fell on the river to give him the nut flush.
Just to give an idea of how popular the EPT is becoming, there is now more press in the media room than players in the tournament. Over 75 members of the press are hammering away on their keyboards doing various kinds of updates. Of course you should stay tuned to pokernews.com for the best coverage of all the players!