Quick Chip count:
Devil Fish is low stacked.
ElBlondie has 8000
Bad Girl has 3000
Julian Thew has 5000
Simon has 2100
Joe Grech 5000

Rumyt just got knocked out. He ain't having much luck at the moment.
Here's the story: He's up against Ross Boatman, who has 10 7 off suit in his hand and decides he quite fancies his chances with this one and raises. Rumiyt has AK♥. Nice hand! So he quite rightly raises another 500 and Ross goes all in making it 4800!!
What can you do with such a pretty hand so well suited, but to call.

Now here's the knife, the cards come 4-7-Q-Q-6

There are 9 tables left.

Just kicked off is the 1060 comp for those sorry folks not in the main event.

It's a freezeout comp with 5,000 starting chips.

A few names we know playing are ElBlondie, The Devil Fish, Smokin' Steve, Vickie Coren, Julian Thew, John Falconer, and Simon Trumper.

Good luck guys.

Just in....

Luke Smith is now one of the BIG stacks with 70K

Well done Luke

A break has just finished with the blinds now at 300 - 600 and ante of 75
135 players are left.

Willie Tann has just gone out.
Henning has 35K
Joe Beavers has 17K
There are also some big 70 and 80K stacks out there to unknown players. Prob scandinavian by the looks of them

 Ross now looks down to find he has 88 V's A10. Flop comes A - 10 - 8
A10 goes all in for 12K and Ross calls.
The turn is ....can you beleive it.... an 8!!!

Greg Hill bluffs off much of his stack to the same unknown Croation that Luca had tried to bluff earlier - he obviously has a short term memory.
Unknown Croation, casino manager, 38K at this point.
Luca has 30K, greg 10K, Howard S 24K, Lothar 10K Rummit 10K.

After a long up hill struggle Blondie eventualy picks up aces to reach 19K from 16K, only to then be dealt aces again against the unknown Croation - his re-raise does not enduce a pass - the Croation then flops a set of sevens on a 743 flop and Blondie is out!!

Croation moves up to a tidy 57K

[HUGE]

Whoops, I just told a huge big lie about the blinds, they are not 300- 500, but 200 - 400.

Ross just took a HUGE pot with KK V's JJ, the flop comes KJ2...

No, Howard is not here.

Blinds are now 300 - 500
Ante 50

Blonde has scraped back up to 12K
Luca 26,K
Greg Hill 21K
Howard from Gutshot 24K
Teddykins 10K
Noah B 9500
Mick McCloshey 28K
Reiner 35K
Robert Binelli is out
Tony Ure 16K - he just knocked out Simon Trumper
James Brwny 20K
Ivo Donev is out as is Nick Whitten
Simon Nonab 16K
Tikay 18K
ross 40K
Rummit 11K
Bad Girl 24K

there are 160 players left

Sorry about the mis spell, reading bad poker players hand writting. It's tough.

Any way, the blinds are now 150 - 300 with a running ante of 25 - still reasonably low, but wehave now lost over a third of the field.

Simon T is struggling with 7K
Willie Tann still has his starting 10K
Joe Gresh has a healthy 40K
Luca has 31,000
James Browning 15K
NGary Bush 23K
Sigi 30K
Ross Boatman 37K
Luke Smith still leading with a whopping 50K

Nottingham Nick just went out, heading for the exit not looking very happy. Funnily enough.

Chris Bjorin 5K
Francois O'Callaghan from Paris, Ireland has just doubled up to 5000

Alex Kumin from Russia has just lost a big pot set under set and is down to 8K

Steve Vladar is not smokin with 6500

Mick McKloskey 38,500

2,970,000 chips are in play
Blinds are 150 - 300
Ante 25

Ave chip stack at present is aprox 15K

[called]

End of level 5, 194 runners left

Regular EPT Finalist Luca Pegano is down to 28k. He just bluffed off 7000 when the board read AQQ7A - his op had just called with AJ! No raise.

Blondie 5200, greg Hill 16000, Rumit 13000 ,
Noah B - Copenhagen winner was down to 600 chips, he now has 16K! wghat a come back!!

Howard Swanes (gutshot) 17,500, Martin Farraka (gutshot) went out in the first level.
Jimmy who qualified via a super sat, 2800.
Bad girl Pham 25k
Simon T 5K
Haugland 6K
Ivo Ponev 4K
Joe B 18K
Elky 40K
Nic Szerzmeta 7K
Tikay 19K
Nottingham Nick 3K
Robert Cooper 23K
Luke Smith 48K

They were in fact only 297 entries, and not the 310 originaly reported. Oops, we goofed.
13 of the entrance had left because they could not read the tv sign off form.

Prize pool is 576K after decuctions
27 places paid, first prize is 184,500

Tikay is sitting on aprox 17k

Two of the well known germans Lothar L on 10k and Sigi S on 28k are on the same table
Poya Pooyz 13k
Joe Gresch is doing well with 38k
Achilleas Kellachis from the mayfair game is out.
Noha B has 6k
Paul Teststud 10K
James Browning 21K
Ellery 18K
Simon T 9500
Chris Bijorn 5k
Rummit 15K

Luke S has just jumped up to a massive 48k hitting trip nines on the river!!!

Marcel Luske is out.

Ross just clashed with Luke Smith - Luke had 10 10 and Ross had a Q on a J,Q,10 flop.
Luke now has 35,000 and Ross has 27,000

Gary Bush sits with 21000 and Simon Trumper hanging in there with 9500

We are half way through level three and down to 25 tables. Pleanty of blood has been splilled on the battle field.

Burnley John and Rob Young are both out.
Ross Boatman may be chip leader with 35k chips
Henning Gradstad 18k

Tikay limps with 44, Simon T raises and Tikay passes. Simon showes 23! Ole!

Blondie doubles up with QQ V#s AK and then again with Trip 4's now has 9K

Just a quickie on some more chips counts for ya all:
william hills Xeon Pham, bad girl has 14k
Willie Tann has 11k
Luke SMith also know as the Doc 12345, is doing well with 20k
Devil Fish has been seen wondering around looking very much out of the comp.