After being on the winning end of a few confrontations with big stack Jeff Rosenblatt, Ruben Perceval has managed to substantially increase his chip stack in the last few orbits. He took two big chunks out of the former chip leader before losing some chips himself, and currently holds around 475,000, putting him in the current chip lead.
Play has slowed down a little in the recent level, surely due to the money-bubble factor, however this can change quickly as many players have become short stacked in the process, with 5 players sitting under the 10 big blind range.