$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

It’s been an interesting duel between Kazu Oshima and Pete Malkoun so far.  Malkoun has been in trouble on a couple of occasions but was able to fight back and has been able to chip away at Oshima’s big lead.

The two players have agreed to take a 30-minute dinner break and will get back at it in Level 19 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante as they continue to battle for the Event 8 title.

Oshima stands at 673,000 chips (112 big blinds) and Malkoun has climbed up to 347,000 (58 big blinds) as the players step away with some seriously deep stacks.

It could be a long way to go before we have a champion tonight.