chipcounts please
Chips are flying thick and fast now and there's only 15 minutes to go. So there isn't much point until we get the final official count. I can tell you that Rumit, Karl Mahrenholz and Mick McCloskey are the biggest stacks remaining.
Stuart Rutter has trebled up to 24k with Aces, and in the running for climber of the day, but he faces stiff competition from Ryan Fronda who had just 1,400 earlier but now sits with about 25k.
Steve Bovis just doubled up with
against Tien Van le's
on a
board. Van le exited shortly afterwards.
Vicky Coren has also just doubled up against Warren Woolridge. She pushed with
and he called with
.
Flop:
(Gazillions of outs)
Turn:
(That's all she needed)
River:
Finally, Rudders has doubled up back to back with Ace King twice in a row, first beating Martyn Cavanagh's 9-5 and then knocking out a short stack's 6-6. He also, whilst short, still had time to pass pocket tens in the big blind.