€8,500 Cannes Main Event Day 1b | 2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

09-05-2008 01:13 UTC+3

This Just In...

[user38449]

Just before the break, Robert Mizrachi took down a monster pot, and while we don't have the details of the hand, we can tell you that he now sits with right around 100,000 in chips.

Tags: Robert Mizrachi

Level: 7

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

09-05-2008 01:32 UTC+3

Play Resumes

MarcC

The cards are back in the air.

09-05-2008 01:42 UTC+3

Ludovic Lucay had been struggling with a four-figure stack for what seems like the whole day. Every time I passed by he gave me the same glum look that told me everything I needed to know about what a struggle his day had been.

Coming back from break with around 5,000 he had few moves left. When he found A-10 suited he deemed it worthy of committing his stack in an attempt to double up and try to get back in this. Unfortunately for him an opponent with a much larger stack woke up with A-K and called. It held up and Lucay wandered off to the bar.

Tags: Ludovic Lucay

09-05-2008 02:00 UTC+3

A Furst Time For Everything

[user66118]

In early position, a player limps into the pot for 400 chips, only to see a raise from Rafe Furst behind him. He makes the call, and the two men see the flop roll out {10-Diamonds}

. Action passes to Furst, who makes a continuation bet of 2,000. His opponent check-raises to 8,000, drawing a re-raise from Furst, who pushes out a total of 18,000 chips. Without much delay, the culprit moves all in over the top of Furst, having him covered by a few thousand.

Rafe Furst goes deep into the tank, fidgeting in his chair with a smug look on his face. He pries for a little info, inquiring about the nationality of his opponent, who is French-American. "I have a big hand... Flush draw, huh?"

"Maybe," says his opponent, with a slight smirk.

The clock is called on Furst, and he is told he has one minute left to act. After just 10 or 15 seconds though, Furst grabs his remaining chips and slides them forward with both hands, turning over {8-Hearts}

for middle set. "Good read," says his opponent, tabling {A-Diamonds}

. The drama ends quickly as the {5-Spades}

falls on fourth street, making Furst a boat and leaving the other player drawing completely dead to the river, which was a meaningless {3-Spades}

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Furst has been slow and steady today, and that big pot doubles him all the way up to 86,000 chips.

Tags: Rafe Furst

09-05-2008 02:06 UTC+3

What a Biechel

MarcC

A player in second position made a raise to 2,350 before Remy Biechel, in the next seat, re-raised to 5,000. It was folded around to the original raiser who made the call.

The flop came {9-Diamonds}

and Biechel bet 9,475 once it was checked to him. This was promptly raised up to 22,000, only a few thousand less than Biechel had behind. Biechel moved all in and his opponent made the obligatory call.

Biechel revealed {Q-Clubs}

but was in need of help as his opponent had {9-Clubs}

. The turn came {5-Clubs}

and river

to seal Biechel's fate and he left the table after embracing his victorious adversary.

Tags: Remy Biechel

09-05-2008 02:18 UTC+3

Williams Blasts Two with Aces

[user38449]

David Williams just took down a monster three-way pot holding pocket aces against his opponents' A-K and K-K. All all of the money went in pre-flop and Williams spiked the overkill case ace on the river to win the hand and now sits with 118,000 in chips which vaults him into our top five:

[Removed:133] - 155,000
David Williams - 118,000
Michael Mizrachi - 117,000
Robert Mizrachi - 110,000
Rafe Furst - 91,000

Tags: David Williams

09-05-2008 02:28 UTC+3

Kabbajed

MarcC

A player made a raise from the cut-off to 1,100 that John Kabbaj called from the button as did the player in the big blind. The flop came {7-Clubs}

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The big blind checked before the preflop aggressor bet 2,500. Kabbaj called but the big blind folded. The turn came {6-Clubs}

and both players checked so straight to the river of {J-Diamonds}

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The cutoff player led out for 5,000 and Kabbaj called quickly but mucked upon seeing {9-?}

. Kabbaj on around 26,325 now.

Tags: John Kabbaj

09-05-2008 02:44 UTC+3

132 Players Remaining

[user38449]

With about three minutes to play in level 7, the Day 1b field has whittled down to just 132 players, which puts the average chip stack at 38,939.

09-05-2008 02:48 UTC+3

Williams Takes a False Step

[user66118]

A crowd begins to gather around the table of David Williams and Jean-Robert Bellande, so we make our way through the throngs of media to try and catch a glimpse.

As we peer down on the felt, the board has four cards on it, reading {4-Spades}

and there are three men involved in the pot. David Williams makes a bet of 10,000 from the big blind position. The next player folds, but the third man raises all in for a total of 38,750. Williams asks for a count, and when he finally learns the total, he splashes a stack of calling chips in the pot. His opponent turns over {A-Spades}