While the eliminations in the first two levels and first half of the third level came quite quickly, the action has screeched to a halt now. Barely and hands go past the flop and no major chip changes are taking place.
On the tail end of a board 
, Bhavin Khatri faced a bet of 35,500 by Jussi Vanhanen and called to see the Finn roll over 
for a rivered straight to bump his stack above half a million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
530,000 | 130,000 |
|
230,000 | -150,000 |
One player busted over on the feature table and you can see what happened in some 25 minutes from now. The field has been reduced to 48 players and a table broke to get six tables of eight players each on the money bubble with hand-for-hand mode getting underway momentarily.
Three players were all in and at risk at different tables. Juan Ares Gozalo doubled through Orestis Kanakopoulos while Markus Heikkila and Aaron Woodcock both busted.
Heikkila shoved for around 40,000 with 
and Thomas Cazayous in the small blind called with 
, the board came 
and the Swede was gone.
Aaron Woodcock was all in with the 
and John Wind called from one seat over with the 
. "Please fan it slowly," Woodcock said and the 
flop left him drawing to a miracle with running treys only. It was all over on the turn and the 
river was a formality.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
440,000 | 55,000 |
|
130,000 | 11,000 |
|
|
110,000 | 45,000 |
|
50,000 | -70,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Thomas Cazayous defended his big blind against a button raise by Nicolas Proust and the action went to the 
turn. Cazayous checked and called a bet of 24,000. On the river, Cazayous checked and called Proust bet of 34,000 to see Proust turn over a bluff with the 
. Cazayous had that beat with 
and won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
385,000 | 15,000 |
|
70,000 | -114,500 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The remaining 51 players have been sent into a 15-minute break, after that the table of Laurent Polito, Preben Stokkan and [Removed:402] will be moved to the feature table.
On a flop of 
, Jonas Ketelsen bet 13,000 in late position and Honglin Jiang on the button raised to 40,000, which Ketelsen called.
The turn was checked through and the 
river brought a bet of 36,000 by Ketelsen. Jiang called and was shown 
for a pair of aces, with Jiang had beat with for flopped two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
520,000 | 150,000 |
|
90,000 | -69,000 |
With 51 players remaining and the top 47 spots paid the money bubble is looming towards the end of the second level of the day already.
Erik Le Goff took a flip with 
out of the small blind against the of Yngve Steen on the button and the board ran out 
to let the Frenchman double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
255,000 | -40,000 |
|
155,000 | 50,000 |
Jonathan Schuman was all in and at risk before the flop for some 15 big blinds with the and Day 1a chip leader Clement Tripodi looked him up from one seat over with the .
There would be no sweat on the board of 
as Schuman locked up the double on the turn already.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
500,000 | 40,000 |
|
440,000 | 196,500 |
|
440,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
400,000 | 130,000 |
|
310,000 | 100,000 |
|
285,000 | 97,500 |
|
269,000 | 64,500 |
|
155,000 | -120,000 |
|
125,000 | 54,000 |
|
|
Busted |
