As play paused for the dinner break in the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in Berlin on Wednesday, the remaining 37 players were just a few spots from making the money.
But at least one of poker's greatest players had enough chips to be thinking of something a little bigger than a min-cash.
The legendary Erik Seidel, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee and eight-time gold bracelet winner who currently sits third on poker's all-time money list with $25,502,045 in career earnings, had pushed into the lead with a little over 1,000,000 in chips and no one even close.