Play resumes with the four horsemen fed, watered and ready for a run at EPT Glory and the £1 million first-place prize.

The four remaining players have headed off on a one-hour dinner break with Team PokerStars Pro's Marcin Horecki ($2.1 million) grabbing the lead after American Eric Liu ($1.6 million) dropped some chips to Swede Michael Tureniec ($1.3 million).

Michael Martin ($860,000) will return with the other three in 60 minutes. 

Team PokerStars Pro's Marcin Horecki has doubled through chip boss Eric Liu, knocking him back down to size.

Horecki finally stood up to one of Liu's many table-controlling pre-flop raises, making a $120k call. The K 8 7 flop was checked by both before the Q turn and another tap on the table from Horecki.

Liu then wasted little time making it $200k before Horecki pounced, check-raising all-in for $750k more.

Liu counted it out, thought for a while and decided to gamble with A T, having picked up the combo gutter-flush draw on the turn.

Horecki had checked a king twice only to check-raise the turn with K T and it held when the 5 came rolling down on the river.

The two are now neck and neck for the lead.

We're four-handed now that Phillippe D'Auteuil is out. The young French-Canadian shipped it with two black eights and knew he was beat when Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki re-shipped behind.

It was two red kings for the Polack and after the A 7 7 4 5 board never really helped D'Auteuil at all, he was gone.

D'Auteuil wrote on his bio that he was going to bail out a buddy from jail with the prize money and £195,766 should do at least that.

"I think the structure sucks because everyone is so short," he said in his exit interview with EPT hostess Kara Scott, before making a questionable, racially insensitive joke about the fact he felt Eric Liu was going to win, cutting the interview rather short.

"Do you think I'm raising light?" Eric Liu said, one hand after min-raising his way to yet another theft of the blinds and antes.

No one answered, and no one answered the call when he did it a third time moments ago, again with the min-raise. He's got the big stack and is stealing this thing away from the other four, daring them to take him on.

We almost forgot Alan Smurfit was here in London, and now he's left us. Smurfit played so few hands over the last while he became invisible, and he disappeared altogether moments ago, shoving his short stack in with A 4.

Michael Martin looked him up with J J and Smurfit was all but done after the K J 3 flop. He picked up a gutter on the 5 turn, but the 5 river killed him off.

Smurfit will take £153,351 for sixth, and then there were five.

As expected, D'Auteuil shoved soon after taking the massive hit described below and a few hands after getting a chop with A-9 vs. A-9,  he sucked out to double up.

This time it Michael Tureniec who called the D'Auteuil push, and he was in good shape to rail the French-Canadian sixth with K J against 7 6.

He even flopped two pair when the K J 4 fell, but a closer look showed a flush draw for  D'Auteuil.

The 3 turn removed just one diamond from D'Auteuil's outs, but the 3 river wasn't it, and he doubled back close to half a million in chips, causing five of his French-Canadian buddies to screech like schoolgirls.

Philippe D'Auteuil made the wrong move at the wrong time and is now crippled after doubling up Team PokerStars Pro's Marcin Horecki.

He shoved with A 9 facing a smallish raise from Horecki and got picked off. Horecki had A K and is now on $1.3 million after the T 7 6 5 6 board brought no suck-out for the French-Canadian.

We're still six-handed, but D'Auteuil has just $165k and will need to double quick or face extinction.

One hand after Marcin Horecki doubled through him sucking out a jack on the river against his ace high, Johannes Strassmann is out.

He finished seventh after getting it all-in good with J J against Michael Martin's K Q and failing to prevent Martin from flopping a queen.

Strassmann's third EPT final table without a win ends, but the German will find a check for £120,723 waiting for him at the cage.

The players are just returning to the table following a short break and the blinds are up again.

Here's how things stand still seven-handed: