There's 22 minutes left of this level and the count on the board says we have 217 players remaining meaning we've lost 39 players in just 50 minutes or so at a rate of almost a player a minute.
The action folded around to Rob Jarrett-Smith who raised to 2,400 from the small blind. James Mitchell called in the big blind. Both players checked the flop, and the turn, only for Mitchell to take a stab on the river with a bet of 2,900. Without hesitation, Jarrett-Smith made the call with . Mitchell showed .
When the cards were revealed, Kasper Nielsen (small blind) will have been forgiven for holding his palms out before him and assuming a double though, his in dominating shape against button Steven King's . Even when the flop hit the felt, he will have remained unfazed, but following a turn, the hit the river to deliver King a rather unexpected pot, and turn Nielsen's face as white as his namesake.
As Neilsen left to share his tale of woe with a friend at ringside, King sheepishly raked in the pot and began reconstructing a now 70,000 stack.
2008 Irish Open Champion Neil Channing has been eliminated from today's event, the feature table dealing out the final blow.
It had been a topsy-turvy day for the recent GUKPT London runner up, Channing regaling your reporter with his tales of woe which involved numerous hands, such as doubling up with versus , and later versus which made quads, but also doubling up an opponent with versus .
He was slightly more coy about his exit hand, so I can only expect it was rags, but he did say he was short stacked at the time and had to push.
When asked about the structure, Channing reported, "Yeah, I like the structure, but on the feature table we're playing a different structure to everyone else. I don't want to sound like too much of a whinger because TV poker has been very good to me, but we're playing fewer hands than everyone else, and when we lost a couple of players, they didn't refill the seats."