We're on to a new level and the four remaining players will now have to cough up $8,000/$16,000 and a $2,000 ante if they want to stay in the game.

Here are the approximate chip counts for the four surviving players:

Seat 1	Peter Jepsen:	$810,000
Seat 2	Marius Torbergsen:	$350,000
Seat 3	Farid Meraghni:	$900,000
Seat 4	John Conroy:	$800,000

In the fourth huge hand in a row, Team PokerStars member Katja Thater has been busted, dashing the hopes of this event's sponsor of keeping the first prize money in the family. Katja open-shoved from the button with pocket deuces and got a call from Peter Jepsen in the big blind. A-Q for P-Jep was in a race but after two bullets hit the flop the situation was changed considerably. A two was Thater's only hope but it was not to be and she is out in fifth place, taking home €64,502.

On the very next hand after the last elimination, John Conroy got all-in good against Farid Meraghni. Bullets for Conway were dominating Farid's A-Q and the board was unable to change a thing. With that hand John is second in chips behind Farid Meraghni.

And on St. Patrick's Day! The pace has picked up this last level, to put it mildly, and the eliminations are happening faster than we can run back and forth from the press room to the tournament area to report them. The latest casualty of war is Andrew O'Flaherty, busted by the one-man wrecking crew Farid Meraghni. It was Marius Torbergsen who opened the pot to $32,000 followed by an all-in from Andrew.

Farid was next to act and pushed all-in over the top of the Irishman. It was folded back around and when they rolled the cards we saw that Andrew was in terrible shape. Pocket deuces were way behind the pocket jacks of Farid and once the board had come and gone with no miracle to be found, O'Flaherty is sent to the rails with a €50,978 consolation.

Patric Martensson has become our second elimination of the day after taking a semi-bad beat at the hands of Farid Meraghni. The money went in before the flop and it was Patric in great shape to double up with A-K to Farid's A-Q. Everything looked good until the river when a queen hit the board, putting an end to Martensson's tournament life. He will take home €40,574 for his seventh place finish.

After more than two hours of play we've got our first elimination. It's the Dane Frederik Hostrup Pederson who is the first player to be sent to the rails this evening. Frederik pushed from under the gun and when it got to Andrew O'Flaherty a few seats down the line, he shipped the rest of his chips as well. The rest of the table got out of the way and it was K T for Pederson in bad shape against the Irishman's pocket tens. The board came Q 7 5 3 5 and Pederson is gone! He takes home €29,130 for his 8th place finish.

Before the last break, Andrew O'Flaherty managed to double through Marius Torbergsen with K-J to the T-J of Marius. No help came on the board and Andrew gets a little bit of breathing room.

Hot off the presses:

Seat 1:	Frederik Pederson:	$129,000
Seat 2:	Peter Jepsen:	$670,000
Seat 3:	Marius Torbergsen:	$431,000
Seat 4:	Andrew O'Flaherty:	$193,000
Seat 5:	Farid Marighni	$749,000
Seat 6:	Katja Thater:	$166,000
Seat 7:	Patric Martensson:	$204,000
Seat 8:	John Conroy:	$336,000

We've reached a new level and the blinds have gone up, as they are known to do. We're now at $6,000/$12,000 with an ante of $1,000, shuffle up and deal!