As the title says, the players are now taking their last 20-minute break of the night. When they return, they will play one more level before bagging and tagging for the night. Here’s what happened in this last level.
Greg Merson is still going plenty strong in his efforts to defend his Main Event title, as he is near the top of our leaderboard with 265,000.
Someone who is all too familiar with Merson is last year’s third place finisher Jacob Balsiger. Unfortunately for him, he was knocked out earlier in this level, when after getting crippled, he shoved with 
. He was unable to catch up with the 
of Bodo Sbrzesny.
Doyle Brunson has been building his stack up all day, but he ran into a bit of a snag early in this level. Brunson rivered a queen high straight, but it was no good against the straight flush of his opponent. Despite taking that hit, Brunson has battled back to 168,000 at the break.
Lastly, Ruper Elder has gone from an average chip stack to one of our chip leaders, thanks to two virtually identical hands. Elder won two races, both times holding Ace-King, and both times being up against pocket queens. Elder is now sitting on 245,000.
We will be back with more live updates in 20 minutes!
and the original raiser led for 6,000. Pescatori popped it to 13,000 leading to a fold from the original raiser.
for a flopped set.
flop fall with Elias continuing for 2,800.
landed on the turn. Dunst checked and Elias continued for 8,000 with Dunst quickly folding while slipping to 117,000 as Elias climbs to 100,000 in chips.
. Masek continuation-bet 5,400, and Moffatt jammed to put him all in. Masek counted out his stack and thought for about a minue before letting his hand go.
, and Glantz continued with another bet of 2,500, called by his opponent. Both then checked after the 
fell on fourth street.
, and once more Glantz tapped the felt to check. His opponent pushed out a final river bet, and when Glantz called, his opponent showed 
for top pair, top kicker, and Glantz mucked his hand.
. The Dutchman fired out 9,200, Ticehurst check-raised to 20,700, and Renkers tanked for a bit before folding.
, and we saw that Seiver had a bet of 5,200 out in front of him. He had been raised to 16,200, and it was back on Seiver when we arrived. Seiver cut out a reraise of 35,000, and stuck it in the middle. His opponent quickly and quietly announced all in, and Seiver snap called him.
