The Field is Being Cut Down
The first of four starting days has reached level 11, the penultimate level of the night, and there are just 127 players out of 338 entries remaining. Among those to bust after returning from the last break were Antti Halme, Alexandros Kolonias, Sofia Lovgren, Maria Ho, Christopher Frank (who had peaked at almost 3.0 million), Alex Foxen, Andreas Eiler, Niklas Astedt, David Peters, Craig McCorkell, Igor Yaroshevskyy, Nicky Romanello, Oleg Titov, Koray Aldemir and Mike Leah.
What do they all have in common? They will very likely be back for another shot at the �10,000 guaranteed prize pool, be it in the ongoing 1B that has 108/136 players remaining, or in the upcoming two flights tomorrow.
Team partypoker has had some casualties, as Luiza Simao and Richard Dubini were felted. Dzmitry Urbanovich has climbed to 1.75 million while Joao Simao dropped to 1.2 million. Kristen Bicknell just faced a big bet by Govert Metaal on a river of 
, the Dutchman made it 390,000 to go with 600,000 in the middle. Bicknell folded out of the small blind and had around 2.6 million remaining, Metaal jumped to 4.6 million.
Several other players have around 5.0 million such as Ben Heath, Juan Pardo Dominguez, Ahmed Abdella and Sergio Aido.
Felix Schulze took a hit against Jack Sinclair after both engaged into a three-bet pot. Sinclair had raised to 90,000 and Schulze three-bet to 270,000 from one seat over, Sinclair called. On the 
flop, the Brit check-called a bet of 225,000 and the 
turn was checked. Sinclair's bet of 770,000 did the trick, as Schulze called and was shown 
for the nut straight. Sinclair moved up to almost 4.0 million also. One hand later, Tom Hall three-bet jammed 
into the 
of Bryan Ruiter and held up despite a paired board to help himself to 2.0 million.
Last but not least, Niall Farrell moved to 4.1 million after dispatching Christopher Kyriacou. The latter had bet the 
flop for 200,000 and got his stack in after the turn, flashing 
. Farrell called with 
and the 
river bricked. "Sounds like he has something way more exciting lined up than me anyways," the Scotsman joked and earned laughter all around.
All around the stacks are getting bigger and Laszlo Bujtas appears to be the current chip leader with around 8.0 million, followed by Chris Brammer with 7.1 million.