Thierry Barou's recent exit brought the numbers to the brink of a table break, but the tenacious four tables hung on as the hefty blinds whizzed past short-handed. This was tough on the short stacks, but Andrew Pantling is seemingly unstoppable with a chip lead, which although lost now and then for awhile, keeps coming back. Here was his table before breaking and after losing Barou:
Andrew Pantling - 820,000
Niall Smyth - 190,000
Karl Mahkle - 200,000
Paul O'Connor - 225,000
Alan Gilmore - 92,000
Marcel Koch - 380,000