Geens and Hoogendijk Eliminated
The seat of Bert Geens is now occupied by Tom Verbon and three other players have been eliminated very recently as well. Mark Heirman, Vytautas Kacerauskas and Daan Hoogendijk are no longer in the tournament.
Hoogendijk lost a flip for 55,000 chips with :::Ah:::Qc against the :::9s:::9h of Niels de Wijs and the field has been reduced to 67 hopefuls. Only 36 will make the money and the first break of the day takes place shortly.
| Niels de Wijs | 120,000 | 30,000  |
| Vytautas Kacerauskas | 0 | -15,900  |
| Mark Heirman | 0 | -58,200 |
| Bert Geens | 0 | -55,000 |
| Daan Hoogendijk | 0 | -66,700 |
