The tournament director has just informed us that they are cutting the day by one level, meaning we will complete the remainder of this level and the next before bagging up for the night.
This is due to the astonishing rate at which the players have busted out. We started the day with 421 and at a last count we only have 130 in their seats! Amazing stuff!
Pete Linton likes to make his presence felt at the table. He plays a lot of hands and you tangle with him at your peril. But it doesn’t always go his way.
Linton raised to 23,000 from the hi-jack and was raised from the button to 77,000. Linton flicked in his cards and addressed the raiser.
“Nice hand sir. Seventy seven gets the job done in these parts. At least until it doesn’t.” He stated, putting the table on a warning.
The next hand he called a raise of 22,000 in position and with the blinds getting out of the way it was heads up to the flop of 
The raiser bet 22,000 and Linton called. The turn brought the 
and again the bet was 22,000 to Linton. Again he called.
The last card was the 
the bet again was 22,000.
Linton sighed. He didn’t like that call but it looked too cheap not to call so out went the chips.
His opponent showed 
for top pair and Linton’s cards arched over the pot and into the muck.
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Despite the fact we've lost over 300 players today, there are still several big names in the event. One of the most well known is Freddy Deeb who has two WPT titles and two WSOP bracelets to his name.
Deeb has just added to his stack after his 
held against a short-stack's 
on a 
board to put him over the 400,000 mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
400,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
|
||
Check out the chip stacks of some of the players still in with a chance of winning €1,000,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
||
|
610,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
|
597,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
|
585,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
490,000
335,900
|
335,900 |
|
470,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
|
||
|
400,000
304,000
|
304,000 |
|
||
|
380,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
330,000
177,600
|
177,600 |
|
320,000
284,000
|
284,000 |
|
|
||
|
150,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
124,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
|
60,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Dan Morgan and Pete Linton have been seated next to each other for a large part of today so a battle of the blinds was inevitable.
Morgan open-limped the small blind, Linton raise only to see Morgan make it 42,000 to go. Linton re-raised to 83,000 and Morgan mucked his hand, giving a wry smile as he restacked his chips into stacks of 20.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
550,000
244,000
|
244,000 |
|
|
270,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
Having been told they are playing the last level of the night, Florent Marques is not particularly happy. He would play all night if he was allowed to he told the table.
Sam Trickett opened in early position for 16,000 and was called by Benoit Albiges in the cut-off. Florent Marques decided this would be a good time for a squeeze and moved all in for 109,000 from the small blind.
The big blind got out of the way and Trickett folded pretty quickly, but Albiges looked like he had a genuine decision.
In the end, perhaps regretting the call in the first place, he threw the hand away.
The ginger-bearded assassin is at it again. Mat Frankland is up to 800,000 after he min-raised from the button to 16,000 and then called the big blind's shove for 160,000. Frankland showed 
to dominate the short stack's 
despite a board of 
giving him a scare or two.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
800,000
203,000
|
203,000 |
On a board of 
Christophe Jean Choffray bet 24,000.
Immediately to his left sat Marius Pospiech who moved all-in over the top of his bet for a total of 135,000, more than covering Choffray’s stack.
It took several minutes for Choffray to release his hand, and when he did he wanted his opponent and the table to see what he had.
Face up on the table was the now unwanted
Back to back double-ups for Amy Trodd as she has found a bit of help from some cowboys.
Firstly, she opened to 17,000 and was called by Angelo D'Onfrio before Sebastian Muller squeezed to 45,000. Satnam Sandhu flat-called out of the big blind and Trodd reraised all in for 109,000 more.
D'Onfrio and Muller both folded but Sandhu couldn't let his hand go and made the call.
Sandhu: 
Trodd: 
The board ran out 
and Trodd doubled up. Soon after she took even more chips from Sandhu, holding kings again on the turn of a board that had a five and two spades on. Sandhu held 
but missed the river as Trodd added even more to her stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
520,000
396,000
|
396,000 |
