Nicolas Chouity raised to 230,000 and it folded around to Roger Hairabedian in the big blind who paused. He looked down at his remaining 310,000 - three big blinds - and said, "I think I'm all in blind. I think I'm too old..." Then he pushed, and Chouity naturally made the call.
Chouity:
Hairabedian: dominated with
Flop: giving Chouity trips
Turn: giving Hairabedian a tantalizing flush draw
River:
Chouity made a full house and Hairabedian made nothing at all, meaning that the Frenchman is out in 7th place.
Andrew Chen raised to 230,000 and it folded to Dominykas Karmazinas, who dwelled up. He asked for a count on Andrew Chen (answer: almost 3 million), then asked for confirmation of the raise amount (answer: 230,000), then asked how long there was left in the level (answer: around five minutes). He dwelled up some more. Then he folded. Big blind Josef Klinger folded too, and Chen took the pot.
Nicolas Chouity raised to 230,000 and Andrew Chen called in position.
The two players checked down to the river of a board where Chen bet 300,000. Chouity debated the hands he could have before asking Chen to show, saying he would also show.
Eventually Chouity folded an face up, Chen also showed an and took the pot.
Josef Klinger limped in under the gun and Nicolas Chouity limped as well to his immediate left. Aleh Plauski, however, very matter-of-factly announced, "I am all in," eliciting a very quick fold from Klinger. Chouity requested a full count of Plauski's stack - our finalists seem to be rather into asking for counts - and when he discovered that the all in was for 1.64 million, he folded.
Andrew Chen opened for 275,000 in early position and it folded around to big blind Josef Klinger who reraised to 575,000. Chen, as a variation on asking for a full count, asked Klinger how much he'd started the hand with (answer: a little under 2 million), and then folded.
Josef "Pepe" Klinger raised to 275,000 only for local boy Herve Costa to shove from the small blind, to applause from his buddies at the rail. Klinger, in keeping with the ongoing theme of this final table, asked, "How much?" The all in was counted, and was assessed to be 860,000 total. He dwelled up for a long time, contemplating his options, and eventually he called.
Costa:
Klinger:
Board:
The French contingent at the rail went crazy when the seven dropped on the turn, and once Klinger had failed to make a straight come the river, they cheered again for the double up.
Costa doubled to around 1.9 million. Klinger was left with 1.5 million.