Antigua will up their claim for sanctions to over $7 billion against the US, but first they will justify their $3.4 billion claim to the WTO today.

As the players take another 15 minute break, we get a chance to dance around the railbirds and check a few chips.

There are 24 players remaining — we play down to eight tonight, remember — and among them are the following stacks:

Niklaus Jedlicka – 170,000
Adam Junglen — 325,000
Sander Lylloff — 310,000
Dag Mikkelsen — 215,000
Mark Teltscher — 250,000
Mohamad Kowssarie — 345,000
Alessio Isaia — 240,000
Peter Giordano — 245,000
Mika Paasonen — 490,000
Patrick Bruel — 310,000
Greg Dyer — 110,000
Aditya Agarwal — 250,000
Javed Abrahams — 100,000
Sylvester Geoghegan — 240,000

Definitely out of the tournament are:

Martin Wendt
Fabrice Soulier
Eric Hardt
Ryan Jones
Ian Woodley

The players are back from their day three dinner break. Same old buffet, but more to go around.

There are 34 of them left chasing that million-plus top spot, and they’re posting blinds of 2,000 and 4,000 with a 400 ante.

Among those challenging:

Greg Dyer – 145,000
Patrick Bruel – 168,000
Aditya Agarwal – 55,000
Bjorn Erik Glenne – 90,000
Mika Paasonen – 360,000
Pete Giordano – 355,000
Borge Dypuik – 170,000
Michael Greco – 120,000
Mark Teltscher – 365,000
Mohamad Kowssarie – 155,000
Michael Wong – 31,000
Ryan Jones – 31,000
Dag Mikkelsen – 110,000
Martin Wendt – 125,000
Nicklaus Jedlicka – 99,000
Philip Yeh – 80,000
Adam Junglen 290,000

They’re being swatted out of this tournament like drunken flies. Here are the fallers so far:

41 – Stefan Mattsson (Sweden) €12,550
42 – Andrey Zaichenko (Russia) €12,550 (PokerStars Qualifier)
43 – Tutev Yovor (Bulgaria) €12,550
44 – Mika Puro (Finland) €12,550
45 – Daniel Dodet (Belgium) €12,550
46 – James Higgins (UK) €12,550
47 – Katja Thater (Germany ) €12,550 (Team PokerStars)
48 – Mark Vos (Australia) €12,550
49 – Massimiliano Rosa (Italy) €10,500
50 – Jean Paul Pasqualini (France) €10,500
51 – Alexander Philip Roumeliotis (Sweden) €10,500 (PokerStars qualifier)
52 – Cort Kibler-Melby (Germany) €10,500 (PokerStars qualifier)
53 – Jerome Ferron (France) €10,500
54 – Jesus Garde (Spain) €10,500
55 – Phil Starrs (UK) €10,500
56 – Daniel Stern (USA ) €10,500

Michael Wong is smiling. But really, after what’s happened to him today, few could blame him for being crouched in the corner, head in hands, cheeks moistened by torrents of tears and a mutilated effigy of the poker gods kicked into the trash.

The PokerStars qualifier from San Diego, California, hit a flop on the second hand of today. He hit it pretty good. He had 3-4, that flop was 5-6-7 and there was nothing wrong with getting it all in there. Problem: his opponent had limped to the same flop with 8-9, otherwise known as the nuts.

“I lost three quarters of my stack,” Wong confided. “I’m the short stack now.”

It’s merciful that he had such a lot of chips to begin today. He was the top-ranked PokerStars qualifier overnight with 193,000. Now he’s down to about 50,000.

But, by his own admission, he went on a rush yesterday to get himself near the chip lead, and there’s still every chance something similar could happen again.