Dmitri Ga?kov is the leader over on table 7 and is currently in third place in the tournament with a stack of 194,200. Here is a look at the stack of everyone on table 7:
Fredrik Zitting who held was all in for 75,000 and Mauri Dorbek who held . Zitting's hand improved when he nailed a set on the flop. The meaningless completed the board sending the Day 1 chip leader to now the lowest stack remaining, while Zitting soared to 150,000.
Players are now on their first 15 minute break of the day. Blinds go up to 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante with the remaining 17 players holding an average of 111,764 or about 22 big blinds.
22 players are entered in the bounty freeroll which began an hour ago with 19 remaining. The top prize is €1,200 with the top five guaranteed to walk away with at least €300.
Among those playing are 888poker Ambassador Kara Scott, Maret Komarova, Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk, Christoph Rueegg, and Jari Hurri.
Both PokerNews qualifier Kasso Lassik and Anton Dokukin were the latest eliminated before the first break. The average player's stack is now an even 100,000 chips or exactly 25 big blinds.