Ireland's Jason Tompkins has just shown Valentin Messina he is not to be messed with by firing on all three streets against him.
Messina opened with a raise to 525 in middle position and then called when Tompkins, to his direct left, three-bet to what looked like 1,150. We didn't get chance to get an official count as Messina called quickly and the dealer swept the chips into one large pot.
The flop came down and Messina check-called a 1,150 bet from Tompkins. The turn saw similar action, except Tompkins increased his bet size to 2,725. The river was the and Messina checked once more, but when Tompkins kept up his story and bet 5,650, Messina folded ans Tompkins won a decent pot.
French TV presenter Cecile De Menibus is struggling with a short stack but just managed to double up with against Bastien Lebel's on a board. The on the turn added a huge number of extra outs and the was enough to double her up to (a still paltry) 2,000 chips.
Ludovic Lacay is doing much better however, he fired successive bets of 700 and 1,500 on an board, the latter being enough to push Konstantinos Nanos out of the pot.
Lucille Cailly lost a three-way pot just now but she's in the black for the day so far.
She was battling three-way with Suat Uyanik and Sadik Esen by the time the action had reached the turn of a board.
Uyanik led for 1,250 from the small blind before Cailly raised to 4,000 from under the gun. Uyanik folded after Esen called from mid position. The river was the and both players checked.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree seems to have come round a little and has managed to late register for the main event.
Like most poker players these days, Boeree took to Twitter to spread the news of her recovery, tweeting, "Started feeling a lot better and managed to get into the main at the very last minute.."
The trip to Deauville is not always straight forward - there are few direct flights and most rely on long train journeys. But not everyone likes to play is so safe. For Jake Cody, who left it until the last minute before making the journey, it was about a ten hour drive, a train ride and a late arrival to Deauville, albeit with some open-face Chinese in between.
Matthias Tikerpe has doubled up at the expense of Bryn Kenney. The Estonian was all in either preflop or on the flop of with against Kenney's . No help for the American on the turn or river and the American is fairly short.
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