Day 5 is now completed and there are only 96 other poker players who are standing between the Betfair Poker hoodie-sporting Hille and the $8,527,982 first place prize; half of which she will share with her partner Harald Olsen.
Hille ended Day 5 by bagging up 3,390,000 chips and they are enough to place her 18th with 97 players remaining. But that only tells half of the story because her stack is the equivalent almost 85 big blinds so our heroine is deepstacked and in great shape to make it through to Day 7!
Our Norwegian grinder saw her stack fly past the three million mark after an all-in confrontation with Jeffrey Finkelstein. According to the PokerNews Live Reporting pages all the chips went flying into the middle preflop, Finkelstein holding Ac-Kd to Hille's pair of red aces. By the river the board read 10d-5s-5d-9s-2c and Hille's stack swelled to 3,100,000; and that is roughly where it stayed until the end of play.
The man Hille - and everyone else for that matter - has to catch if she wants to claim the number one spot is Kyle Keranen who has 6,935,000 chips in his possession. Hot on Keranen's heels are the likes of Robert Salaburu (6,195,000) and the online poker phenom Taylor Paur (5,820,000).
Also still in the field are other notables such as Jan Heitmann (3,410,000), David Baker (1,910,000), Jason Somerville )1,400,000), Amit Makhija (1,400,000), Vanessa Selbst (1,165,000)and Isaac baron (1,165,000) amongst others.
Play resumes at 20:00 UK time and will continue until at least five 120-minute levels have been completed. The tournament staff think this will mean just 27 players will remain at the end of the night, hopefully Hille will be one of them. She is now guaranteed $62,021 for her efforts but that will increase to $294,601 by the time the curtain comes down on Day 6's play.
Everyone at Betfair Poker wishes Elisabeth Hille the very best of luck.