Slow and Steady
We've moved into the fifth half-hour level here in our fourth and final quarterfinal match, with Vanessa Rousso and Ernst Schmejkal still relatively close in chips. Schmejkal just won a short sequence of small pots in a row, and has pushed to 1.04 million to Rousso's 880,000.
The word previously was that if this last match ended by 5 p.m., we'd start the semis at 6 p.m. But we've crossed that now, so unless things suddenly wrap up here, the semis may get going at the previously scheduled start time of 7 p.m.