A few hands after the dinner break and Marcel Baran finds AA in the small blind. Another big hand lurked in the big blind. Dave Clayton was unlucky to find KK. I missed how all the chips went in the middle, but Marcel, from Frankfurt, won a huge pot. He's now on 240,000 chips.

37 players remain now, with Roland De Wolfe our chipleader. Blinds stand at 2,000/4,000 with a 400 ante. We're nearly 'in the money' with 32 players paid.