Play has just resumed in level nine. The field now stands at 47 players, competing for the 2.45 million in chips in play. The chip leader from earlier in the flight, Maxime Duhamel, managed to hang on to the chip lead from the first to second break and is now sitting comfortably with 170,500 in chips, more than triple the current chip average.

Although this flight did not see a spike in re-entries near the end of the late registration and re-entry period, the action picked up pace towards the end of level eight. The shorter stacks in the field now have few options to choose from, but the big stacks have enough blinds at their disposal to take any line they see fit. The confluence of these two dynamics created a number of bloated pots, which helped save some players from the brink of elimination and allowed others to take their stacks to new heights.

Here is the current leaderboard: