There are just 22 players remaining as Christophe Simonis and Sarunas Linkius were both eliminated. A short-stacked Jonathan Morlet was more fortunate, as he doubled for his last 11,000 on the flop. The Belgian got it in with and Ronald Mielenski called with the .
The turn and river were blanks and Morlet stayed in for now.
"In the first half an hour I hit everything, then nothing, and now I hit everything again," Ronald Van De Linde said in the last break. Indeed the Dutchman won a big pot without showdown just before everyone headed to the break and said he had pocket jacks on a jack-high flop against two opponents.
With less than one hour to go for tonight, Van De Linde moved back in contention for the chip lead with 24 players remaining.
The remaining players have been sent into a 10-minute break, in which the black T-100 chips will be raced off. Two further levels of 30 minutes each are scheduled tonight before bagging and tagging.
Joining the action on the flop, King777 checked from the big blind and called a bet by Ronald Van De Linde on the button. The fell on the turn and King777 checked again, then called a bet of 10,000 by the Dutchman.
The river was checked through and Van De Linde rolled over . King777 checked his cards again and sent them into the muck.
From the cutoff, Roman Motovsky moved all in for his last 36,700 and Deividas Ciakas in the small blind also shoved from the small blind with the slightly superior stack.
Roman Motovsky:
Deividas Ciakas:
Ciakas took the lead on the flop, and the turn and river changed nothing anymore.
The full action behind the rise of King777 to the chip lead is unknown, as he was last spotted with around 90,000, but the German has since more than doubled that and became the new chip leader in the last few levels of the night. Jörg Kunz at the same table also holds a big stack still, and half a million might be at stake if the duo clashes.