Nico Lombaerts raised to 11,500 and Jean Baptiste Hall shoved for 68,000 from one seat over. Lombaerts tank-called with the 
and Hall was way ahead with 
. The 
flop cemented the lead of the Frenchman but the 
turn and the 
river gave Lombaerts a straight.
Also eliminated: Youssef Hammas, Kevin Ayow and Stefano Garbarino (pictured). The Italian lost a flip with 
against pocket sixes.
55 players left!
Despite betting 16,000 on a three-way turn of 
and folding to a shove of a short stack for 61,000, Niels Gybels is the current chip leader with far more than half a million in chips.
Pierre Merlin raised and called the three-bet shove of Alessandro Sarro with pocket jacks. The Italian had 
and couldn't get there. Maurice Vieira also busted straight after the restart to reduce the field to 59 players.
It looks like only two Italians remain in Stefano Garbarino and Marco Della Tommasina.
The details of his elimination remain a mystery, but Sergio Benso, who started the day as one of the big stacks, has been eliminated to reduce the field to 61 players.
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The screens still show 62 players left and they are all off to enjoy a 15-minute break.
On a flop of 
, Matas Cimbolas faced the all in of Florian Ravier and eventually folded.
One table over, same happened to Jean Michel Texier after betting the 
flop for 22,000 and then mucking to the shove of Mohamed Mamouni. He was shown the 
by Mamouni.
On the 
turn, Pierre Merlin bet 46,000 out of the small blind and Gurkan Cifci clicked it back to 102,000. This small reraise enforced a fold from the PMU online qualifier shortly before the break.
Jussi Matilla had been fighting with a short stack for quite some time and is still below the average. However, he just got paid off for 40,000 on the river of a paired board that contained two nines. Matilla had rivered a full house with pocket fives and scooped the pot.
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