On the turn of a board, Jesper Feddersen check-raised Eric Sadoun's 4,000 bet to 14,400. Sadoun made the call to see the on the river.
Feddersen wasted little time and picked up his remaining 1k and 5k chips and pushed them in the middle. Sadoun called quickly but Feddersen showed for a full house.
Jasper Wetemans opened for 1,300 from the small blind and French pro Timothee Jerbillet made the call from the big blind.
Both players checked the flop and the soon hit the turn. Wetemans now bet 1,500 and Jerbillet made the call.
The fell on the river and Wetemans bet 3,800. Jerbillet was contemplating his options and decided to raise to 9,300. Now it was time for Wetemans to think about the possibilities. After some thinking he made the call and Jerbillet mucked his hand. Wetemans showed his and raked in the chips.
During Level 6 Dave 'Dubai' Shallow went from being potential chip leader, with almost 100,000, to out in short order. Apparently he lost two big pots in succession in nasty spots to bust. We didn't see either first hand but Sunny Chattha, who also bust shortly before the break, told us what he knew. "He lost about 50,000 with A-Q against aces on an A-Q-6-6 board," said Chattha. "And then on a king high board his opponent jammed the turn with pocket fives, he called with K-10 and the river was a five."
The main beneficiary of this appears to have been Ayman Zbib, who know has a monstrous stack of 144,000. To put that in perspective it's only 10,100 less than the Day 1a chip leader and there's over two hours of play left on Day 1b.
Find out who has been winning what at during the PokerStars EPT Deauville festival of poker. Jamila Von Perger (who ran deep at EPT Barcelona), Glen Cymbaluk (who did well here last year), and FPS Main Event Niels van Leeuwen have all earned silverware to take home with them. Find out how much they, and others, have won already by clicking through to the PokerStars Blog.