Day 5 is Alive
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1,240 players started. Only 24 remain. Everyone here is guaranteed a rather tasty €30,000 - but that is a mere shade of the whopping €1,250,000 on offer for last man standing come tomorrow.
Chip leader by a long way is Mr. Allan Bække of Denmark. If his name doesn't sound familiar to you then shame on you as you really haven't been paying attention this season - Bække is currently in a very good spot not only to become the first ever two-time EPT winner but also to do it back-to-back after taking down the inaugural EPT Snowfest last month.
However, he's going to have to make it through a minefield of top-class players including Liv Boeree, EPT Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen, PCA High Roller finalist Dmitry Stelmak and Jens Thorson, 21-year-old brother of Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson. As various volcanoes and so on have proved this week, literally anything can happen.
Play is due to begin at 2pm today and has moved from the casino floor to the rather nice theatre situated inside the casino building. In a break from the past few days, you can watch it all from the comfort of your computer screen, as EPT Live will be up and running all day.
The plan is to play down to a final table of eight, and if the last day or two is anything to go by, it shouldn't take too long at all. See you at 2pm.