The main event is moving fast today with almost half the players who started now eliminated at the second break of the day. But 160 of the 307 who began today have their tournament lives intact and are still fighting it out for a place on tomorrow's final table plus a shot at the €55,000 1st prize.
This situation won’t last for long however, as with 71 players being paid, play is expected to tighten up once another 30 or 40 players hit the rail. After a brief consultation with the tournament director, we expect the bubble will be burst sometime close to the dinner break, which is not until 9 PM this evening. It’s looking like this could be a late one and the plan is to play till they are down until 16 players.
Big Stacks
The chip leader at this point in the proceedings is Mario Eder from Austria who has close to 390,000. In second place is Mario Keskel from Estonia, who won the Blackjack tournament earlier this week. He has a stack of 328,500 and is 30k ahead of Jesper Lucas, who is hovering just below 300,000.
Lucky Jumper?
It’s actually quite cold in the room today with the AC being turned up a bit due to the larger number of tables and play, and some players didn’t come prepared. One such player is Maltese Shaun Decesare, but he was fortune enough to borrow my lucky jumper and is now feeling a bit warmer. How lucky will it be for Shaun? Will update you later once we have some more news on that.
