The remaining 52 players are going on a 15 minute break. During this break the 25-value chips will be raced off. When they return blinds will be 500/1,000 with an ante of 100.
Here are some updated chip counts from the field, with Marek Lux still holding strong at the top of the counts, with the only addition to his stack recently being a new pink-coloured 25,000 denomination chip. Meanwhile Sebastian Langrock is on yet another bullet; he sits with around starting stack midway through Level 9.
Half way through level nine the field of 102 entries has been cut into more than half. Sebastian Langrock busted and came back with a fresh stack while Airidas Stažys was spotted at the buffet. The Lithuanian busted twice and may still re-enter until the end of level 11.
Onkel Otto and Alvydas Bekeris were involved in a three-bet pot and the stacks collided on a flop of .
Onkel Otto showed ace-queen for top pair and top kicker, while Bekeris had him crushed with for middle set. It was all over after the turn, making the river a formality. The stacks were counted and Bekeris had 52,000, which covered Onkel Otto. The German returned with a fresh stack soon after, though.
Sebastian Langrock doubled up his last 2,400 with versus on a board of . "I lost kings to ace-queen against Marek Blasko before," the German who now calls Vienna his home explained.
Michal Riczak, Timur Caglan and Paulina Rimkute however are all on the way up. Rimkute was spotted with a raise to 2,000 and picked up two callers in Petr Targa and Roman Tvrzník. The flop came and a bet of 3,000 by Rimkute did the trick.
On a flop of Irakli Kemularia checked from the blinds to Milan Telvak who bet 6,000. A third player in the hand called and Kemularia check-min-raised to 12,000. Both other players called.
The turn was the . Kemularia bet 11,000 and after some thought, Telvak moved all in for around 25,000. The third player folded and Kemularia snap-called.
Kemularia:
Telvak:
Kemularia had flopped a straight with Telvak open-ended. The river was the and Telvak was eliminated.
. Votkin bet 5,400 and Misiura called.
and Votkin bet 12,800 and again Misiura called.
and Votkin checked. Misiura eventually checked behind and showed 
which was good enough to take down the pot.
and Riczak continued for 8,800 and Hansen called.
. Riczak bet 13,000 and Hansen raised to 30,000. Riczak quickly moved all in and after a moment's thought, Hansen folded.
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turn, making the 
river a formality. The stacks were counted and Bekeris had 52,000, which covered Onkel Otto. The German returned with a fresh stack soon after, though.
on a board of 
. "I lost kings to ace-queen against Marek Blasko before," the German who now calls Vienna his home explained.
and a bet of 3,000 by Rimkute did the trick.
and Telvak was eliminated.
