Guillaume de la Gorce has become the short stack here as eight-handed play continues. Just now he open-shoved from the button and got no callers, offering a sheepish smile to his opponents at the crescent-shaped table as he added a few chips to his stack.
De la Gorce has some work to do if he wants to keep smiling. He has about 410,000 at present.
Guillaume Cescut opened for 45,000, and the table folded around to Sebastian Homann in the small blind who reraised to 130,000, pushing out both Sebastien Comte in the big blind and Cescut.
Cescut tried again on the following hand, again raising to 45,000, this time from under the gun. It folded to Homann again, and once again he reraised to 130,000. The blinds got out, and once again Cescut decided against continuing.
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Here's a first look at the finalists.
Dominik Nitsche opened with a raise to 45,000 from the hijack seat, and both Sebastian Homann (cutoff) and Sebastien Compte (button) called.
The flop came 
. Nitsche checked, and Homann took the invitation to fire a bet of 74,000. Compte thought a moment and folded, and Nitsche let his hand go as well.
Homann keeps right on keeping on, and looks to have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.75 million now.
We've played for an hour, with Sebastian Homann continuing to maintain his chip advantage with eight players left.
Incidentally, it looks as though our connectivity issues may have been resolved (fingers crossed). Onto Level 23!
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Guillaume de la Gorce opened to 35,000 from the hijack and found callers from Dominik Nitsche in the small blind and Sebastian Homann in the big blind.
The flop came down 
and Nitsche led out 53,000. Homann quickly called and after about a minute, de la Gorce re-raised all in. His opponents could not have folded any faster, upping de la Gorce's stack to about 600,000.
Patrick Muleta moved all in for about 250,000 from early position and Felix Oberauer called instantly from the big blind.
Oberauer: 
Muleta: 
The board ran out 
, ending Muleta��s tournament. He earned �19,920 for his ninth-place finish.
Oberauer gets a much needed boost to about 550,000.
Sebastian Homann raised to 32,000 from late position, then Johan Williamsson reraised from the button to 92,000. The blinds got out, and the action was back on Homann. The German took his time to consider the situation, then decided to reraise again to 198,000 total.
Now it was Williamsson's turn to spend some time in the tank. He looked over at Homann, taking about a minute before finally letting his hand go.
Homann continues to enjoy the chip advantage here in the early going with a little more than 1.6 million. Williamsson has dropped to 600,000.
We're underway! On the first hand, the table's short stack Julien Labussiere pushed all in from the button for his entire stack of 208,000 (minus the 2,000 ante he'd already committed), and got a caller in Felix Oberauer in the small blind. Labussiere turned over , and Oberauer tabled 
.
The flop came 
, then the 
turn gave Labussiere a Broadway straight. The river was the 
, and Labussiere earns a quick double-up to about 430,000. Oberauer, meanwhile, drops under 300,000.
