The rail clutters as chip stacks topple

Guillermo Fernandes suffered the wrath of the ladies as his QQ failed to hold up against K♠Q♥, and we're suddenly down to 15 players after a spate of departures.

The Portguese would have been delighted to see the state of play once he shipped against Andreas Chaikiadakis, but the luck of the Greek swung victory his way as a K hit the flop.

Patryk Matysiak could find no escape as his A♠7♦ ran into A♦Q♠ and the short stacks continued to find no answer as Alvaro Manjon, Martin Bader and Susanne Posny all lost their tournament lives.

Mark Jakab and Alan Stearn have also now left us and at this rate, we could make final table before dinner!