Over on the feature table, Johan Verhagen shoved with and Ian Simpson called the short stack with pocket nines to claim the pot after a blank board. Verhagen was eliminated in 23rd place and received a payday of €2,729.
The 29th place finisher was Jessy Marillaud, who was all in for 190,000 shortly after coming back from dinner. Hans Sybrandi looked him up on the feature table and it was a flip with the for the Dutchman and for Marillaud. The board ran out and that was it for the Frenchman.
Matija Bicanic and Andrew Gillett busted in 26th respectively 25th place to reduce the field to the last three tables and Luc Simons hit the rail straight after. It happened so quickly that Bicanic's and Simons' exit details are unknown. Simons was in fact on the rail though and said he ran with into the pocket aces of Tom Dingenen.
Gillett got his stack in with after defending against a raise by Mateusz Moolhuizen and then called the shove for 10 big blinds effectively on the flop . Moolhuizen had the best hand with and made a straight on turn and river.
Dennis Kleinleugemors doubled up twice. First with versus and the second time with versus . However, all the hopes of a comeback were then destroyed when he took a flip with against the pocket sixes of Micael Emanuelsson. The Swede immediately locked up the hand with a six on the flop.
On the feature table, another player busted and the field has been reduced to 26.
One player busted on the feature table and the 29th place finisher will be made public in half an hour from now, same as a double up from the very same table as well.
Dmytro Gukov was the first to fall back from the break after losing with pocket fives against the pocket threes of Cornelis de Jong. And then, Micel Emanuelsson shoved for 15 big blinds with and Jorgen Jerneskog snap-called with to see the better kicker hold up.
The remaining 31 players have been sent into a 60-minute dinner break. While we eat, you can enjoy this interview with one of the chip leaders, former Irish Open winner Ian Simpson.