Fabrice Soulier Loses One Before the Break
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Fabrice Soulier has certainly read the poker instructional manual, "how to gather a big chip stack in a tournament."
He always seems to near towards the top end of the leader board and although he has just lost a pot that takes him below the 400,000 mark; he still remains a very strong contender.
He raised to 5,500 from the hi-jack and Aleksandr Khizhnyak defended his big blind holding 
. The dealer gave us a flop of 
and Khizhnyak check-called a 9,500 Soulier bet with his teeny-weeny top pair. Both players checked the 
turn before we saw the last card which was a 
river. Khizhnyak pushed out a value bet of 10,000 and as people bolted for the doors and the break Soulier paid him off before mucking his cards.
Soulier ~ 395,000
Khizhnyak ~ 210,000