Matvey Linov has not been having a particularly good day. He started off well enough, with his 193,400 placing him near the top of the counts, and indeed he did manage to get well above the 200,000 mark at one point. However, virtually every time we've passed by his table today we've found one player or another pushing him off a big pot and he's now on a barely average 136,000.
Most recently overnight chip leader Perica Bukara raised under the gun and Linov reraised to 19,400 from the button. Undeterred, Bukara four-bet, and after some consideration Linov folded, looking as though he might cry. Bukara is at 280,000.
Toni Ojala just added to his 100k+ stack busting the Dane Anders Jensen with the old beating the equally old in the as-old-as-poker-since-it-began coinflip situation. The board came ...(at which point everyone looks at both hands checking for a heart) before the blank river.
It's not been a great level for former chip leader Mattias Jorstedt - he's dropped almost 100,000 in chips and is now at 400,000. That's still not bad though.
The man to beat right now is once again Jonathan Weekes. He's had a fine old time in the past hour or so, and is up to a towering 540,000.
Jonathan Weekes opened to 7,500, and Ali Tekintamgac three-bet to 17,000. In the small blind, Luca Pagano sat motionless for two minutes before surprising the table with a flat call. Weekes called as well, and on to the flop. It came , and Pagano and Weekes both checked to the raiser. Tekintamgac announced "all in" almost before Weekes had tapped the table. Both of his opponents folded. Tekintamgac flung his at Weekes as he took in the pot. He's back up to 230,000 after losing a big pot, but not exactly making friends with his tablemates.
75 minutes more, and we are done for the day. Good thing, too - PokerStars are hosting a somewhat belated EPT Tallinn welcome party for players later on tonight.
This is the last break of the day, and the first time that fewer than 100 players are still around to take one. Back in 15 minutes to play one more level before calling it a very early night.
Heinz Kamutzki raised to 5,100 in the cutoff but Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern in the small blind had other plans and made it 20,200 to go.
"How much more you got?" Kamutzki asked, and Mattern silently re-stacked his remaining chips into a more easily countable format, and we ascertained that he had 116,000 behind. Kamutzki only just covered him with 140,000. Kamutzki squirmed for a little while before eventually folding, and Mattern moved up to 145,000.
Johan van Til opened for a just-above-minimum 5,000 from the cutoff and Vitalijs Zavorotnijs cheerfully made it 13,200 from the small blind - but when the action returned to van Til he shoved all in for 55,000 and Zavorotnijs eventually folded.
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beating the equally old 
in the as-old-as-poker-since-it-began coinflip situation. The board came 
...(at which point everyone looks at both hands checking for a heart) before the blank 
river.
, and Pagano and Weekes both checked to the raiser. Tekintamgac announced "all in" almost before Weekes had tapped the table. Both of his opponents folded. Tekintamgac flung his 
at Weekes as he took in the pot. He's back up to 230,000 after losing a big pot, but not exactly making friends with his tablemates.
