The play slowed down significantly after we got down to 12 players, but the remaining woman in the field, Anu Mikkola from Finland, has just been eliminates at 12th place after her AK couldn´t beat his opponent´s KK.

We will play down to final table of nine players today. Players left:

Stefan Genchev

Sergio Marti Aguilar

Ally Squire

De Lima Carvalho

Stylianos Pantelakis

Roman Herold

George Tzimas

Konstantinos Tsamakis

Anders Vind

Timotheus Grall

Dimitrios Vlahos

James made another great run in GSOP Live second season but still fell a bit short of the final table.

He shoved over cutoff open with AT and couldn´t catch the much neededten against AK.

James had built back up but is now on life support after his id-position open got shoved over.

It was the classic coinflip with James holding TT against AK.

An ace on the turn turned James´s day worse.

No details - seems like there´s more action in the tournament everytime we come to the pressroom.

16 players left.

Veli-Pekka Penttinen who was playing super solid for three days, has just been eliminated from the tournament.

He lost most of his chips when a local player called 2 streets with king-high and hit the river against Veli-Pekka´s top pair. He was left with 59k that he shoved over the same villain´s open with A3 of spades. The local hero held Q9 of hearts and hit the flush.

“Just couldn´t hold in the key hands” sighed clearly disappointed Veli-Pekka.

James took a huge hit to his stack when he got into racing war after opening utg. The small blind 3-bet him, James 4-bet to 91k and the sb shoved 333k.

James TT

Small blind AA

No help for James and he is down to ~130k

It looks like this could be a short day- we are down 20 players already.

The past half an hour we were down at the tournament area Veli-Pekka was forced to fold with his short stack, and even James was not playing 50% the hands.

We are now on a 15 minute break and will continue at 4000/8000 ante 1000. The players have been dropping fast we are down to 26 players, average stack 265,000

James has continued in his trademark-aggressive style and is up to 528,000. At the moment he has a pretty good position with the other big stacks on his right and some tightish players on his left.

Veli-Pekka is getting short, he has about 130,000 at the moment.

Commented Veli-Pekka his decision when UTG+1 moved in for 6 bbs and Veli-Pekka found pocket aces in the big blind. It was aces against 98 suited and the board brought nothing dramatic.

Veli-Pekka now has ~220k at 3k/6k.

James is up to around 500k, he has been very active as his table is pretty tight.

Team RedKings Pro James Keys, who has been building his stack steadily today, just got the first 50k chips brought in. Hope he holds on to them tight.

Veli-Pekka has about 185k, so his stack has not been moving basically at all.

In 10 minutes or so the blinds will go up to 3000/6000 ante 500