New Big Stacks Emerge

Han Kuo won a big pot off Marco Slacanac to boost his stack to half a million while other new big stacks include Patrice Brandt (400,000), Michal Mrakes (365,000), Amjad Nader (355,000), Oliver Boesch (350,000) and Kunal Patni (300,000).

Patni (pictured) benefited from a set-over-set setup against Ali Reza Fatehi when a queen and a nine both hit on the flop.

Start-of-the-day chip leader Gerald Karlic is struggling with some 95,000 right now but remains in contention with 58 players remaining.