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Play is due to commentce at 2pm.

Bastian Landehagen -- 98,400
Erlend Melsom -- 80,000
Brent Wheeler -- 74,000
Marco Lucidi -- 69,700
Anton Smolyanskiy -- 68,500
Jan Olav Sjåvik -- 67,400
Kenneth Gregersen -- 59,800
Peter Fischer -- 59,400
Thomas Holm -- 53,800
Stefan Maglicic -- 53,200
Jonas Helness -- 53,100
Philip Hilm -- 51,600
Jeppe Mikkelsen -- 51,000
Ghassen Yafaoui -- 49,800
Anders Berg -- 48,600
Johnny Jensen -- 47,700
Iwan Jones -- 47,500
Martin Wendt   47400
Jan Richard Johannessen -- 47,200
Erik Lindberg -- 46,400
Roy Brindley -- 45,900
Atle Walgren -- 44,100
Troels Berg -- 43,200
Guido Meacci -- 42,400
Patrick Kortsen -- 41,400
Bernard Boutboul -- 40,100
Magnus Petersson -- 39,400
Carl Nilsson -- 39,000
TJ Cloutier -- 38,900
Donny Morris -- 38,400
Tune Seidelin -- 38,200
Richard Toth -- 38,000
Flemming De Hoog -- 37,500
Williams Harrison -- 37,200
Jacob Rasmussen -- 37,100
Ben Johnsen -- 36,900
Samir Shakhtoor -- 36,300
Eirik Bjørklund -- 36,100
John Shipley -- 35,400
Simon Mycock -- 34,900
Morten Sivertsen -- 34,325
Thomas Ostervold -- 33,800
Peter Hardgrove Hansen -- 33,400
Ricki Nielsen -- 32,100
Uffe Holm -- 31,600
Theo Jorgensen -- 30,800
Lars Hoe Madsen -- 30,700
Birgitta Johansson -- 30,600
Robert Olsson -- 30,400
Andy Goetsch -- 29,500
John Conroy -- 28,900
Karsten Schou -- 28,800
Anders Wijk -- 27,600
Daniel Raymon Bodin -- 27,600
Eoghan Arthur O Dea -- 27,300
Branislav Pajic -- 26,900
Peter Eichhardt -- 26,700
Marcin Horecki -- 26,500
Ola Petter Bremer -- 26,400
Andreas Elofsson -- 26,000
Alexandre Poulain -- 25,700
Brian Andrew Cook -- 25,600
Kim Berntsen Vevle -- 24,700
Nils Chr Paulsen -- 24,300
Pernille Ravn -- 24,300
Torben Sneibjerg -- 24,200
Peter Roche -- 23,900
Ingemar Jönsson -- 23,800
Ulf Steringer -- 23,800
Age Spets -- 23,300
Chrsitian Grundtvig -- 23,100
Steven Ronald Heard -- 23,000
Claus Nielsen -- 22,500
Luca Pagano -- 22,500
Patrick Bueno -- 21,800
Steven Mitchell -- 21,800
Thierry Van Den Berg -- 21,800
Gitte Andersen -- 21,500
Vitaly Lunkin -- 21,400
Emile Petit -- 21,100
Erik Nicklelson -- 20,800
Arve Leikarnes -- 20,200
James D Campbell -- 20,200
Soren Knudsen -- 20,100
Dave Colclough -- 19,800
Michael Bjørn   19500
Jan Wronowski -- 19,400
Johnny Lodden -- 19,300
Michael Naughton -- 19,300
Gary Haglund -- 19,000
Jens Kläning -- 18,900
Zlatan Musa -- 18,600
Christoffer Sonesson -- 17,800
Colin Ogden -- 17,800
Kim Hemmingsen -- 17,500
Rehne Pedersen -- 17,200
Gert Anderson -- 16,800
Martin El-Kher Cook -- 16,300
Nick Slade -- 16,200
John Baarstrøm -- 16,000
Mark Secher Petersen -- 16,000
Jason Cheng -- 15,800
Tyrone Kerrigan -- 15,800
Daniel Philips -- 15,700
Henning Granstad -- 15,700
Paul Linton -- 15,700
Sumen Saha -- 15,600
Hilmar Tveit -- 15,400
Morten Lund Jensen -- 15,100
Henrik Engsig -- 14,900
Torstein Iversen -- 14,700
Cole Morrow -- 14,600
Boris Shostak -- 14,500
Betrand Grospellier -- 14,400
Mike Borgesi -- 14,400
Erik Roos Afhjelmsater -- 13,800
Thomas Peterson -- 13,600
Tom McEvoy -- 13,500
Allan Nilausen -- 13,300
Paul Hersleth -- 13,100
Tobias Persson -- 13,100
Halldor Mar Sverrisson -- 13,000
Andre Alcaria -- 12,700
Anne Gro Løvmo -- 12,400
Terje Kvistbråten -- 12,300
Janne Helen Overå -- 12,200
Patrick Fredriksson -- 12,100
Bo Knii Jensen -- 12,000
Marko Rajaniemi -- 12,000
Lotte Kalland -- 11,700
Lars Storkehave -- 11,600
Bent Mortensen -- 11,200
Daniel Thunvik -- 10,900
Robert Norberg -- 10,600
Henrik Witt -- 10,500
Stein Erik Ulekleiv -- 10,400
Guenther Hornung -- 10,100
Kerry James Kerrigan -- 10,100
Peter Jepsen -- 10,000
Trond Aanensen -- 8,900
Nicolai Vivet -- 8,800
Mikael Lindbäck -- 8,300
Alexander Stevic -- 8,200
John Persson -- 7,900
Runar Pedersen -- 7,600
David Berggren -- 7,500
Michael Frandsen -- 7,200
Martin Flint -- 6,500
Yuri Ten Bokkel -- 6,000
Maarten Meijer -- 5,900
Olav Haugen -- 4,400
Ken Gamskjaer -- 3,800
Michael Melin -- 3,700
Tobias Nebel -- 3,300

And we've had an early exit in Yuri Ten Bokkelt whose A-5 failed to outdraw his opponent's Pocket Sevens.

Dropping like flies here.

Michael Frandsen, John Perrson, David Berggren and Norseman, Torstein Iversen have all bitten the dust early doors.

It also appears that Tyrone Kerrigan is also OUT.

Daniel Philips has around 10k.

He's been gettin plenty of hands though....

First he took the blinds with Ace King, then his Kings were outdrawn all-in by Peter Jepsen's A-K, before finally taking the blinds yet again with Pocket Queens.

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Kim Hemmingsen has just doubled up off TJ Cloutier, although the latter is still on 30k.

A classic coinflip situation, Queens v Ace King with a 3d 6c Td Js 4d board.

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Meanwhile, on the same table, Welshman Iwan Jones ran his Jacks into Queens and King. Fortunately, he made the first raise and was able to get away once WPT Grand finalist, Claus Nielsen, had, made the third raise.

A harmless board resulted in the exit of Kim Hemmingsen.

Daniel Philips Doubles Up:

I hear 'Living on the Edge' play in my head watching him fold his big blind to small blind Simon Mycock, as his 15k at start of day has dwindled to just 6,000... But wait - action on that table, which has a line-up like so:

Pernille Ravn
Simon Mycock
Daniel 'Kinboshi' Philips
Steven Heard
Atle Walgren
Peter Jepsen
Anders Berg
Donny Morris

Under the gun Atle Walgren makes it 2,500 to go (blinds 400/800).  Fold round to Daniel, who decides that now is the time - all in for around 5k.  Then big blind Steven Heard comes over the top, all in for 20k, which is too much for Atle.
"Lucky Sevens..." says Steven, showing 7c 7d
"Unlucky Sevens..." says Steven, as Daniel flips Jc Jh.
Board (you're getting this detail because I actually saw it first hand, not because it's relevant):  Qs 3s 2h Qd Td

And a double up for Kinboshi from those slightly overconfident Sevens.

Nick found Queens under the gun and raised to 2.5k.

'The Mad Scandie who knocked me out in Baden', aka Karsten Schou, made the call from late position.

Flop = 9d Tc 3d

Slade pushes all-in for his last 12 or so thousand, onlt for Schou to call with Qd Jd.

No flush or straight and Slade's Ladies hold up.

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Meanwhile, in the other room, Harrison Williams has eliminated Frenchman Bernard Boutboul with Pocket Aces.

Brent Wheeler may have become the first man to surpass the 100k mark after disposing of table neighbour, Peter Hardgrove Hansen.

Incredibly, the two managed to get it all-in with 7-9 and A-2 respectively (including pre-flop action) on a Flop of 3d Ks 5d.

9 of hearts Turn and 7 of hearts River means we have a new chip leader.

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Dave Colclough has doubled up with A-4 vs Q-9.

The seven and eight-hand tables at the start have condensed as the elimination carnage continues - I would like a tracking device fitted to all players and linked to some central computer with their name and nationality details.  I think that would be particularly helpful at the WSOP.  Anyway, players finding themselves on less than around 12k are starting to make those desperate moves, and the shorter, the more desperate.  I think the gent who moved in with 6h 3h had just a couple of thousand, although I've never seen hope die in an expression as quickly as when he saw 6s 6d in his caller's hand. 

The big stacks are playing a different game, however, and re-raising happens frequently when more than one of them graces a table, like this one:

Andreas Elofsson
Anders Wijk
Erlend Melsom
Alexander Stevic
Morten Jensen
Maarten Meijer
Bastian Landehagen

Just now Jensen has a go raising from the button, and chip monster Landehagen immediately re-raises 5k, getting rid of the button.  I heard the cutoff saying, "I looked down and found an Ace, and thought about it, but..."  It appears young Bastian has his table expecting pressure at every turn.  Good for him.

It looks like Peter Eichhardt is OUT.

Johnny Lodden is OUT after seeing his Pocket Sevens outdrawn by Ace Queen, an Ace hitting the River.

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Thomas Holm has a monster, and rather tricky to count stack, after busting Aces with Pocket Kings.

He almost folded though...

Flemming de Hoog raised it pre-flop, Holm re-raised, Hoog re-re-raised and, after a long spell in the think tank, Holm finally decided that he couldn't release them and went all-in.

A King on the Flop and a firm kick in the testicles later and de Hoog was OUT.

Erik Roos Afhjelmsater -- 18,200
Andy Goetsch -- 59,300
Luca Pagano -- 10,400
Iwan Jones -- 55,700
Richard Toth -- 28,900
Patrick Korsten -- 25,900
Johnny Jensen -- 25,400
Tom McEvoy -- 16,300
Jan Sjavik -- 88,000
Roy Brindley -- 96,000
ElkY -- 53,800
Slade -- 47,300
John Shipley -- 42,200
Ola Petter Bremer -- 44,700
Janne Helen Overa -- 23,100

Nick Slade, who finds it hard to stay in his chair (fig. A) just took a big pot from chip leader Brent Wheeler.  Brent raised in the small blind to 3,500, and big blind Slade called with Ahrt Kh.
Flop:  6h 7h 8s  Brent bet out 5k, called by Nick.
Turn:  Jd  Brent checked, Nick put in 13k of his 30k remaining, and faced an all-in check raise from the huge stack.  He thought about it a bit, and decided this pot was now too big to let go, calling and finding Qc Qd against him.
River:  Ks

So Nick Slade finds his stack equal to that of Wheeler, 70+k each...

Rhowena has arrived, so expect a quality Gallery this time round...just as she was walking in the door, Dave was walking out, however, and she shook her head, saying, "What a bok I am..."

Tom McEvoy is also OUT - got it all in threeway against Sevens and Queens with AK, but no hit and the hopes of the Americans must now rest on the broad shoulders of TJ Cloutier.

Daniel 'Kinboshi' Philips is OUT -

Another pass round to small blind Simon Mycock.  Another push in from the stack which was more than four times that of Daniel's...but this time he beat Simon into the pot, making his stand with Ac Kc.  What did the s.b. bully have?  5h 7c.  That hand.
Flop:  9c 3h 6d
Turn:  Td
River:  7h  A handshake for a visibly disappointed Daniel Philips, whose first major tournament experience was nonetheless well played. 

Double up for Kim Hemmingsen with Ahrt Ks, though (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, the old no pair top kickers hand).  It works better against Ad Qh, which is what button caller of Kim's cutoff push TJ Cloutier had.  Before the hands went over, TJ said, "Once again, you're in the lead."  Despite his read, the 23k pot moved to his right, however, although TJ's nowhere near the danger zone.

Nick Slade has doubled up to around the 95k mark with Ace King suited versus chip leader Brent Wheeler's Pocket Queens.

And for once, it wasn't all-in pre-flop, instead, Nick flopping the nut flush draw and moving in on the Turn.

No heart arrived, but a black King hit to give Nick a monster pot.

Moments later, Wheeler tilted off 15k and is probably back down to around 55-75k.

Huge pot makes a chip leader of Simon Mycock (Londoner, according to BA based in Oslo, so both UK and Scandie in one):

on an Ac 5s 6c flop, he bet out 8k (I think) into two other players.  His neighbour, decently stacked, made the call, while the other guy fled the scene.
Turn: 5d.  Simon checks, Matey bets 15k pretty fast, and before the chips have come to a full stop, Simon says, "All in."  Instacall.
Simon shows:  5h 6s
Matey shows:  3c 5c

And the Js river gives a monster pot to Simon, giving him over 180,000 which he just moved from neighbour's stack to his own with ever so slightly shaky hands... 

A few other counts, gathered before sidetracked by that one:

Jan Sjavik              102,000
Andy Goetsch (?)     75,000
Erlend Melsom          63,000
Roy Brindley           122,000
Nick Slade                72,000
John Shipley              75,000

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Blinds will be going up to 1k/2k ante 200.
78 players remaining.

Yes.  51k - he said just one word, "Kings."  I think he's happy...

Other counts (the first four from his table):
Alexandre Poulain  31,000
Troels Berg          90,000
Magnus Petersson  56,000
Elky                     70,000
Anders Berg          84,000
Peter Jepsen         59,000
Martin Cook          12,000
Jason Cheng         18,000
Ricki Nielsen          92,000
Pernille Ravn         43,000

Please note that both Johnny Lodden and Tom McEvoy are OUT of the comp and will playing no further part.

Brigitta Johansson has exited after her Pocket Sevens ran into the re-raise of Theo Jorgensen and his Cowboys.

Iwan's doing pretty well up on the TV table, nicking one set of large blinds, and betting another opponent off a Js Ks 7c flop with a 14k bet.

The consolidated chips mean that there have been far fewer all-ins this level, although the rich seem to be getting richer - like Mark Petersen, Roy Brindley and Jan Sjavik.
Fairly slow going in the Main Room, to be honest...although they've broken the 65 player mark...

Iwan Jones -- 100k
ElkY -- 185k
Thoe Jorgenssen -- 55k
Jan Sjavic -- 85k
Roy Brindley -- 165k
Jim Kerrigan -- 50k
Nick Slade -- 135k
John Shipley -- 45k

Nick Slade reached 135k after his Aces held up against the Pocket Kings of Mark Pedersen.

I missed out seat 1 from the Feature Table, who's Christoffer Sonesson.  Probably.  And also on that table are Claus Nielsen and  Harrison Williams (seats 4 and 5).  Thomas Kremser is doing the announcing on there, but due to the rest of the room's noise (there are sit'n'gos starting up slowly) it's hard to make out what he's saying.

Nick Slade -- 140k
Roy Brindley -- 200k
Robert Olsson -- 50k
Jonas Helness -- 35k
Claus Nielsen -- 90k

The secondary room has somehow dwindled to just two tables during this 1,500/3000 ante 300 level... only 46 remaining in total.

A few counts:

Simon Mycock        120,000
Alexandre Poulain     68,000
Jim Kerrigan             35,000
Magnus Petersson    122,000
Bertrand Grospellier    80,000
Christian Grundtvig    88,000  (I thought I spotted his distinctive red sunglasses earlier, but lost him for a while).

Magnus Petersson just doubled up courtesy of his Ac Aspades.  His 60k stack mostly got in on the 8d 6c 5c flop, with Elky looking to be the payer-off with his 7h 7d.  The running Fives on the turn and river gave them both full houses, but Magnus' was just that little bit higher. 

Nik Slade is down to the felt after running Pocket Queens into the Bullets of TJ Cloutier, Nick being the player who made the initial raise.

Claus Nielsen -- 75k
Rickie Nielsen -- 155k
Andy Goetsch -- 35k
Christian Grundvig -- 185k
Jim Kerrigan -- 60k
Simon Mycock -- 150k
Richard Toth -- 175k
Bastian Landehagen -- 115k
Thomas Holm -- 110k
Nick Slade -- 45k
Ollson -- 45k
Iwan Jones -- 125k
Harrison Williams -- 45k
Ghassen Yafaoui -- 155k
John Shipley -- 50k

Ladbrokes online qualifier, Stephen Mitchell, is OUT, busted by Iwan Jones who called his all-in with A-K.

The K-A-x Flop was emphatic as Mitchell's Sevens failed to improve.

And that bubble spot goes to Hilmar Tveit. He only had around 15k, but Bertand 'ElkY' Grospellier showed no mercy and finished him off in double quick time.

Halldoe Mar Sverrisson -- 20k
Magnus Petersson -- 110k
Samir Shakhtoor -- 105k
Nick Slade -- 45k
Iwan Jones -- 165k

Payout structure again:

1   DKK 4078080 = €547,177

2   DKK 2308608 = €309,773

3   DKK 1340928 = €179,928

4   DKK 1022976 = €137,254

5   DKK 843264 = €113,142

6   DKK 663552 = €89,028

7   DKK 525312 = €70,481

8   DKK 373248 = €50,083

9-10   DKK 228096 = €30,606

11-12   DKK 179712 = €24,114

13-14   DKK 138240 = €18,547

15-16   DKK 96768 = €12,983

17-24   DKK 76032 = €10,201

25-32   DKK 55296 = €7,419

33-40  DKK 41472 = €5,564

TOTAL:13,824,000

So the next eight out are in the little-over-money-back-unless-qualified-online state.

Add to your mental list of online qualifiers none other than TJ Cloutier.  It was a mystery to me, and to Henning Granstad why he was over here in the first place, and when he appeared on TV wearing a Pokerstars shirt, the natural assumption to make was that he'd been backed.  But no.  When Henning just came out and asked him, it turned out the veteran player won a $10 satellite on Stars.  I kid you not. 

This scene created the biggest pot of the night, with Thomas Holm moving in for 96k.

Pre-flop action had created a 30k pot, which then rose to 70k once Bastian Landehagen flat called Holm's 20k bet on a Flop of Jd 2h 9d.

Turn = 3d, and Holm, who took an absolute age to fold (only barely an exaggeration), finally moved all in for 96 big ones.

After a brief thinking spell, Bastian stood up and shoved his remaining 100k across the line.

Bastian showed Sixes, which were behind his opponent's Pocket Tens.

The miracle out failed to appear as the River brought a black Queen.

Just now, you could see the beady eyes of a short stack light up from across the room - the reason - he'd found Ad Ac and a caller.  Got to the side of the table I'm allowed to stand on just as the hands were being manoevred into the middle by the dealer, and he'd found a caller with Aspades Ahrt.  Poker is a silly game.

Some chip counts:

Christoffer Sonesson        19k
TJ Cloutier                    230k (I think; it's a lot in any case)
Claus Nielsen                  40k
Christian Grundtvig          131k
Simon Mycock                205k
Magnus Petersson          116k

There's a new TV table, featuring (from what I can see over the live feed in the press room) Jan Sjavik (still my top pick), Richard Toth, who's the backwards hat wearer I asked about earlier in that photo, Elky, Andy Goetsch,  Ricki Nielsen and Jim Kerrigan who looks like he's wearing a shiny hat but that's because a lot of tape has been applied to obscure the logo...

Speaking of which, they must not be filming Ricki Nielsen from the back, as he's covered in large Pokerroom logos, shirt, jacket, hat, probably pants.

Halldoe Mar Sverrisson is OUT after he moved his last 20k in under the gun.

Jonas Hellnus made a tricky call from the small blind with Qh Jh, leaving himself just 45k behind.

Board = Qd 5h 8c 2s Aspades

Jonas Helness is the new chip leader after outdrawing Iwan Jones in a monster pot.

Jonas Helness raised from the button, small blind called and so did Iwan in the big blind with Pocket Threes.

Flop comes J-7-3 and it all kicks off.

Iwan bets out 45k, Helness makes it 70k, other guy folds, Iwan and Helness get the rest of their chips in.

Helness shows Nines, Turns a nine and puts Iwan back down to 60k.

Nick Slade is OUT.

Moved his last 42k in from the button with T-4 but the big blind called with K-J, which subsequently held up.


So is Southampton's Colin Ogden, Tens v Kings.

They are down to 32 players (blinds 3k/6k ante 600).  Table break - after Magnus Petersson gets the short stack all in preflop with his Ad Kd dominating the re-raiser's Ahrt Jc.  The board kept him in, though, coming 9d 9c 9h 8h 8d for a split.

Anyway, groans all round at the prospect of moving to a new table at this crucial point in the tournament - something I personally hate - although this time Thomas Kremser did the fair 'cards face-down on table' approach to seat draw, so who goes on the TV table is random, as it should be. 

From the outer tables...

Thomas Holm -- 285k
TJ Cloutier -- 250k
A chap no one can name -- 205k
Jonas Helness -- 200k
Simon Mycock -- 170k
Theo Jorgensen -- 125k

Claus Nielsen has doubled up courtest of Marcin Horecki, Eights holding up vs. A-Q on a 6-T-4-t-5 board.
Claus is now on 70k.

Andy Goetsch eliminates Ricki Nielsen from the TV table - only caught a glimpse of a 9-straightening board on the Press Room monitor and they were shaking hands.  In the secondary cash level, now, incidentally - €7,419.

Action on the TV table!  Jan Sjavik is all in preflop against Richard Toth.  A camera angle which you probably wouldn't stage (and would be frankly sadistic if you did) showed us the corners of one each of their hole cards:
Jan had  Aspades ??
Richard had Ac ??

They stood up; the board came 2h 8d 7s....8h...2s

I shall infer from the relieved smile on Jan Sjavik's face, that his kicker had been the one in trouble, and his tournament life on the line...

Table Holm:

Simon Mycock -- 240k
Anders Wijk -- 210k
Erik Lindberg -- 130k
Thomas Holm -- 285k
Jonas Helness -- 145k
Mateyboy -- 20k
Iwan Jones -- 65k

Anders Wijk has eliminated Jonas Helness with Qd Qh vs. Ac Qc, all-in pre-flop.

Board = Jd 2h 5c 4s Tc

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Roy Brindley is also OUT.

Fours v Tens.

No help.

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Here are a few rough chip counts from the feature table:

Jan Sjavik -- 90k
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier -- 195k
Andy Goetsch -- 65k
Magnus Petersson -- 260k

Chip Leader Status confirmed - although wild rumours were circulated by BA that that pot was over half a mil, in actuality Anders has about 380k as far as I can see, and BA can't count.

Other Counts:

Christoffer Sonesson  55,500
TJ Cloutier               235,000
?                            125,000
Claus Nielsen             78,000
Samir Shaktoor         102,000
Mark Petersen          131,000
Anton Smolyanskiy    110,000

Jan Wronowksi          61,000
Mark Petersen         131,000
John Shipley             92,000
?                           100,000
Zlafan Musa              74,000
Ghassen Yafaoui       110,000
Theo Jorgenssen       120,000

Sorry there are still blanks here - someone will fill these for us very shortly, even if that has to be the player.

Shortstack, Andy Goetsch, has just been removed from the final table by Magnus Petersson.

As a result, we are down to 24 players.

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Meanwhile, TJ Cloutier is down to just 60k after losing a monster pot to Anton Smolyanskiy.

A-Q vs A-4

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Other news...

Constant shortstacker for the day, Claus Nielsen, has also departed.

Iwan Jones is OUT - on the feature table he classically raced his A-K against J-J.  The home crowd cheered the Jack on the flop, and we're down to 21 players here...

Dent to Simon Mycock's stack - pretty serious one too -

He called Tobias Persson's preflop raise and the flop came 4c Qs Td.  Simon checked, Tobias bet 50k.  Simon raised to 100k.  A very long think, and then Tobias Persson's whole 250k stack was in the middle.  Clearly this was not going according to plan for Simon, who struggled with the fold but managed it in the end.

Three way all-in now that has resulted in the elimination of Denmark's Peter Fischer.

Once again it was from the feature table, and once again the camera made it exceedingly difficult to witness the holding cards, but I'm pretty sure Anton Smolyanskiy flipped over Ace Queen, and, judging by his dismay, I would assume Cole Morrow, who was the shortest of the three, had a monster hand like Aces or Kings. Fischer, who had also pushed his short stack all-in, was in deep trouble with A-J.

The Flop came 6s 3d 7s

No reaction.

Turn = 5d

River = Tc

Fischer, who begun the day in 8th position, taps the table and exits stage left.

TJ Cloutier is OUT.

He made his move with K-3, but was shot down by the Pocket Threes of Sjavik.

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Bad news for the British followers as John Shipley, who I believe won the London EPT in Season 3, has just been eliminated from the comp.

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Richard Toth has just doubled up with Jacks vs A-8 on a 2-8-9 Flop and is now on 490k.

Magnus Petersson may well be the latest chip leader with half a million.

On a Flop of 3s Jc Tc, all the chips went in with Simon Mycock's Ac Js up against Petersson's Pocket Queens.

Magnus grimaced as the Turn brought an intimidating Kc, but exhaled deeply when all the draws failed to hit the highly welcoming 2h River.

As a result, Simon is down to the felt, so no one is fearing Mycock at the moment.

A couple of counts, from behind someone's head and in front of someone else's... I don't know how many times I've apologised for not being transparent today.

Elky                 190k
Jan Sjavik          170k
Thomas Holm     340k
Anders Wijk       350k
Tobias Persson     71k
Theo Jorgensen  140k

It's really chaotic right now - the 30cm gap between the rail and the tables means it's cosy for the press, to say the least.

Aprox chip counts for the non-tv table:

Mark Scher Petersen -- 230k
Thomas Holm -- 320k
Richard Toth -- 500k
Anton Smolyanskiy -- 190k
Ingemar Jönsson -- 230k
Simon Mycock -- 25k
Theo Jorgenssen -- 155k
ElkY -- 180k

And the TV table:

Samir Shakhtoor -- 225k
Erik Lindberg -- 265k
Alexandre Poulain -- 120k
Cole Morrow -- 155k
Tobias Persson -- 80k
Anders Wijk -- 420k
Magnus Peterssen -- 580k
Jan Sjavik -- 160k

And as soon as we reconvene, we lose yet another in Tobias Persson, who made a move with King High, but was looked up by big stacker Magnus Peterssen.

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Meanwhile, on the outside table, Betrand 'ElkY' Grospellier has doubled up through Ingemar Jönsson, who is down to the felt as a consequence.

On the K-9-8 Flop, Ingemar bet out, ElkY moved all-in, leaving Ingemar to call was an almost obligatory call.

J-Q vs a set of Eight.

The 9 on the Turn gave Elky the Full House, but Ingemar wasn't dead, still alive he made a somehwhat hopeful gutshot straight flush draw.

Funnily enough, it failed to develop allowing ElkY to shoot up to 350k.

Simon Mycock is OUT in 16th place, winning €12,983

Super short stack Simon was all-in blind, against Thomas Holm's Kd Tc...

He turned over the Ahrt, saying "Yes!" and it was suited with the 6h.

Flop: 9d Ks Jh
Turn:  2d
River:  Td

"Good game, everyone," said gentlemanly Simon as he made his way to the rail. 

Anders Wijk gets busy on the TV Table News Now:

Twice he's moved all-in over the top of a limper/preflop raiser and got them off their hand.  The most recent time Magnus Petersson raised to around 90k and then passed to the all-in move.  Thomas Kremser said, and I think by 'he' he meant Anders, "He shows Nine Ten of hearts..."  That got a round of applause from his vocal support crew.

Short stack Jan Sjavik also managed to get Petersson to lay something down, although it can't have been much...

Then Alexandre Poulain gets it all in with a call holding Ad Js against what I think must have been 9c 9h for Anders Wijk (our live feed might as well be to News 24):

Flop:  Ks 6c Kh
Turn:  Qc
River:  Jc

And a relieved Alexandre sits back down.

Now it's Samir Shaktoor's turn to put the pressure on Anders Wijk preflop, moving in and causing a troubled dwell, complete with pause with finger in the 'launch cards into the muck' position.

Snoopy's in the tournament area while I get to try to decipher what's going on on the Feature Table.  15 minutes left until the end of play today...

13 players remaining - Ingemar Johnsson is no more - a very short stack before his demise, however.

Mark Secher Petersen -- 305k
Thomas Holm -- 330k
Richard Toth -- 460k
Erik Linberg -- 310k
Theo Jorgenssen -- 210k
ElkY -- 450k

Yes, the weird end of level music has played, and the remaining 12 players will be allowed what Thomas Kremser called their "deserved break" after they bag and tag the chips. 

They'll be returning at 2pm tomorrow (that's 1pm UK time) and, if we're still able to be woken by our alarms, so will we.

Mark Secher Petersen
Thomas Holm
Richard Toth
Erik Linberg
Theo Jorgenssen
Betrand Grosepllier
Samir Shakhtoor
Alexandre Poulain
Cole Morrow
Anders Wijk
Magnus Peterssen
Jan Sjavik

Outside table:

(1) Samir Shakhtoor -- 368K
(2) Cole Morrow -- 91K
(3) Anders Wijk -- 562K
(4) Alexandre Poulain -- 166K
(5) Magnus Petersson -- 428K
(6) Jan Sjavik -- 128K

Featured table:

(1) Mark Secher Petersen -- 195K
(2) Thomas Holm -- 299K
(3) Richard Toth -- 611K
(4) Erik Lindberg -- 344K
(5) Theo Jorgenson -- 339K
(6) Bertrand Grospellier -- 455K

Chip counts courtesy of Rolf Slotboom.

Click the link below for thumbnail images of the final day...

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/7097 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/7097)