The field in the 8-Max is down to less than half of the original entries. Only 60 players remain after roughly four hours of play.

Some big stacks have emerged since the last break; it is now a three-horse race for the chip lead. Aidan Tiefenbach, Andres Korn and Mehdi Badreddine control the largest stacks in play, each in the vicinity of the 200,000, which puts them comfortably ahead of the rest of the field. The chip average now provides slightly more than 30 big blinds so the shorter stacks will begin to feel the pressure in the coming levels.