It's a real shame that we have absolutely zero access to the feature table, as Fabrice Soulier has been doing sterling work up there to extend his lead. Perhaps some of the TV guys will fill us in on some of the action in a break or something.
Following the exits of Fatima Moreira de Melo (105th place) and Victoriya Taranova (101st), this is now indeed an all-male affair. Our remaining 71 gentleman players will now take a 15 minute break.
Dara O'Kearney has doubled up once more pushing with over the top of Aurelien Guiglini's initial raise. Ruslan Prydryk then moved all-in over the top from the big blind.
Guiglini thought for a couple of minutes then folded.
O'Kearney:
Prydryk:
Guiglini, "I had the other two tens... I was calling him [meaning O'Kearney] but I can't call both of you."
The board came and O'Kearney doubled up to 300,000 Prydryk was left with just 60,000
Two padded stacks collide frequently now that Thorsten Sch?fer and Kristijonas Andrulis share a table. They just played a game of chicken preflop with Sch?fer's four-bet taking the pot. Sch?fer said, "Game of chicken!" and Andrulis took out an earphone and said, "Did you just call me a chicken?"
Sensing a spot to short-stack-shove in the big blind when small blind Jens Weigel was the only player left in the hand preflop, Roberto Romanello found himself called and all-in with vs. .
There was silence on the flop, and also when Romanello's live rag hit on the turn. When the river completed Weigel's straight, Romanello missed it, saying, "That's how you win tournaments."
When he turned to give Weigel a gentlemanly 'hard luck' handshake, Weigel said, "I won," and collected his 230,000 stack while Romanello admitted, "I'm dreaming! Good luck gents."
A huge pot was being played out between Hugo Lemaire and Alessandro Laubinger where the board was reading , Lemaire had checked the river and Laubinger bet a substantial 125,000 into what was already a pot of around 250,000.
The Frenchman looked apprehensive but slowly pushed out a call, Laubinger turned over for top set and Lemaire mucked, the German is now over the 1 million mark while his opponent is left short.
Joao Barbosa was down to just 40,000 or so when he went all in with . Aurelien Guiglini tanked for some time in the big blind before making the call with . It was a decision that worked out well for him - the board ran out to eliminate the EPT Warsaw winner and put Guiglini up to 325,000.