The players have just returned to their seats following the latest break in the action. Slightly more than half of the starting field has been eliminated, with 40 of 84 teams still in the running.

Several teams managed to accumulate more than double the current chip average of 36 big blinds. But one team – Team Javier – stands head and shoulders above the rest with a stack of 137 big blinds. Team Javier has had everything go right for them so far this afternoon; both players ran up their starting stacks prior to the merge and they were given the hot seat in the redraw, allowing them to get maximum value from the disproportionately large number of strong hands they have received since then.