Xavier Detournel, who is sporting a garish multicoloured hoodie, opened to 10,000 from middle position and the action passed around the UK's Lucas Reeves in the small blind.
"Can I see you chips?" requested Reeves.
"Ninety-five thousand," informed Detournel before adding, "including these," and pointing to the 10,000 he already had invested in the pot.
With this information, Reeves three-bet to 100,000 and once the big blind folded the action was back on Detournel. Detournel shaped to call — he even had his hand on his tower of chips — but at the last possible moment he just couldn't pull the trigger.
Massimo Di Cicco was all in preflop with against Hugo Pingray's . The flop brought Pingray many additional outs but he bricked out on the turn and river.
At this point Di Cicco cheered and ran off to his rail a couple of tables away to high-five his friends and celebrate the fact he had (in his mind) doubled up.
The rest of the table looked on, a little bemused and eventually the Italian came back and was shocked when he found out he was getting just half the pot.
The field has now shrunk under 100 players, with the short stacks becoming increasingly endangered with each new hand.
Speaking of, Fabrice Soulier became severely short-stacked — down to just 10,000 — yet survived multiple all-ins to last another orbit. Meanwhile, Romain Baert across the table earned a double up against Gordon Huntly when Baert committed his last 94,000 with against Huntly's , then finished best after the board ran out .
Shortly after that hand, Soulier raised from under the gun to 17,000, leaving himself 10,000 behind, and when it folded to Baert in late position he reraised to 50,000. It folded back to Soulier who called, showing to Baert's .
The community cards came , and Soulier shook his tablemates' hands before departing in 96th place.
Artur Olczyk is out, he'd moved all in over the top of Loic Fringant's initial raise but was snapped off by the latter's . Olczyk opened and couldn't hit his set on the board.
Gordon Huntly, our last remaining Scotsman, is flying high and is on course for a very deep run here in Deauville.
Huntly opened to 11,000 from the hijack and Joseph El Khoury called from the button. Jean Julien Stempffer, fresh from doubling through El Khoury minutes earlier, squeezed all-in for 150,500 in total. Huntly then re-shoved and El Khoury got out of the way.
Huntly:
Stempffer:
Huntly was narrowly in front with his pocket queens and that lead would soon be extended as the flop fell . The gave Stempffer some outs to a flush, but the was not one of them and Huntly climbs up the chip counts.
We'll endeavor to get as many elimination hands as possible today but we are bound to miss quite a few. Keep an eye on the payouts page as we'll be updating that the day progresses.
When Lucien Cohen won EPT Deauville in Season 7 he famously, or infamously, had a large, black plastic rat on the table with him. It has returned.
Noel Gaens opened to 10,500 from the hijack and when the action passed around to Cohen in the small blind, Cohen moved all-in. As he did so the dealer placed the black all-in triangle in front of Cohen while Cohen put his large plastic rat onto the felt.
Gaens folded and Cohen exploded into a mini tirade of French expletives. We think Cohen may have wanted a call.
Following a preflop raise from Jesper Feddersen from the hijack seat, the Lithuanian Kristijonas Andrulis three-bet to 26,000 from the small blind, earning a reraise back from Feddersen for 55,000.
Andrulis sat quietly for a half-minute, then reraised again to 110,000, and Feddersen let his hand go without much additional ceremony.
Jean Julien Stempffer has just been spared elimination by a rather unlikely board.
Stempffer found himself all-in with against the pocket aces of Joseph El Khoury. Just as it looked like Stempffer was going to be heading to the exits, the board ran out to improve him to a straight. Easy game!
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against Hugo Pingray's 
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flop brought Pingray many additional outs but he bricked out on the 
turn and 
river.
against Huntly's 
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to Baert's 
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, and Soulier shook his tablemates' hands before departing in 96th place.
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gave Stempffer some outs to a flush, but the 
to improve him to a straight. Easy game!