A few recent developments:


* Out of the 'stars' of this event, we still have Liz Lieu, Greg Raymer, Patrik Antonius & Rob Hollink in. Neither one of them has more than just an average stack though.


* Rob has just, as he eloquently stated, "bluffed off 5K in a stupid manner". The man who is always so critical of his own game, still has about 16K left.


* The action is very slow at the moment. With the blinds at 100-200 and a 25 ante, there is not much chip movement, and we still have 109 players in contention. By the way, just like yesterday we will play down to 6 levels. This means we will probably play on until about two in the morning.


* An interesting pot has more than doubled up Alan Betson. With Andreas Hagen in the 200 big blind, Greg Raymer made it 600 to go from early position. Juha Helppi reraised him 1,450 more, and then Alan moved all-in for another 2K. When Greg got out of the way, Juha said: "Well, unless you have aces, I should call here". He did make the call with an A Q and was dominated by Betson's A K . A king on the flop settled things, and Alan, who had been shortstacked all day, is now back at 11,500.


* Another great comeback has been pulled off by Brian Wilson. Having been down to just 10% of his initial 10K, he is now is holding no less than 12,000 again - a resurrection in line with what Isabelle Mercier managed to do yesterday.


reported by Rolf Slotboom at pokerpages


*Playing in his usual solid fashion is Surinder Sunar. He has more than double what he started with. And taking into account he is not someone who loses chips easily, one could say he is off to a great start.