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Sorel Mizzi, though nowhere near as comfortably stacked as Antony Lellouche, hasn't been shy about playing pots with him, even out of position as he just was calling preflop. He check-called Lellouche's 2,500 on the 
flop too, and it all slowed to a double-check on the 
turn. However when Mizzi checked the 
river, Lellouche bet (around 4k). He smiled to see Mizzy call with 
nicely mirroring his own 
. Chop Chop.
Sorel Mizzi set it all off with a standard raise preflop which saw Roger Hairabedian just ship it in for 44,900. This looked like it was going to get back to Mizzi quickly, but no, small blind Gianni Giaroni really tanked about it, finally counting out the call and pushing it forward. This quickly left him heads up with Hairabedian. "I crazy!" announced Giaroni, before being told, "Moi crazier," by his opponent who showed 
(in fact holding him up to his head like antlers, which gave credence to his statement). Giaroni's 
was behind, and stayed there. Double to 100k for Hairabedian.
Sorel Mizzi seems to have gotten a real good feel for his table, and is now sitting on about 225,000.
We caught up with one particular hand with the flop reading 
and Antony Lellouche having checked from first position over to Mizzi, who was on the button. Mizzi bet 6,000, drawing a quick call from Lellouche.
The turn was the 
and once again, Lellouche checked to his opponent, who bet out 6,000 again. As he did before the frenchman found a call and the two players went to the river, which fell the 
.
Lellouche checked for a third straight time, however this time Mizzi upped the ante a bit by betting out 11,000. After about ten-seconds, Lellouche made the call only to muck his hand when he saw the 
of Mizzi.
Antony Lellouche is now on about 130,000.
Here were some counts from the twelve remaining players. It looks as if Freddy Deeb is our current chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
270,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
||
|
225,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
140,000
-88,000
|
-88,000 |
|
90,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
45,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
||
|
36,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
26,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Kristoffer Thorsson, after having a ridiculously hot start has not only simmered down, but he's gone officially ice-cold. Each time we come to the table his stack seems to have dwindled more and more.
We happened to see him lose a few of those chips after Freddy Deeb limped from early position, and Thorsson raised it up to about 4,000. Deeb made the call, and the two saw a 
flop.
Deeb checked to Thorsson who made it 5,000, only to see Deeb min-check-raise him to 10,000. Throsson called, and the two saw a 
turn card. Both players checked, bringing the 
on the river and both checked again.
Deeb said, "If you have a flush, it's good turning over pocket sixes for the rivered set." Throsson mucked and is down to about 27,000.
We didn't see the exact pre-flop action but Antony Lellouche had his opponent, Gianni Giaroni all in preflop. Lellouche was holding pocket jacks, and Giaroni 
.
The board rolled out 
doubling Giaroni up to about 130,000 and leaving Lellouche with about 67,000.
When we went over to check out chip counts during the ten-minute break, we noticed one Kristoffer Thorsson had been eliminated. We're down to ten players, and we'll call it a night when we hit eight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
310,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
305,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
111,500
-18,500
|
-18,500 |
|
|
110,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
90,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
85,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
|
78,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
40,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
33,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
28,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
|
|
||
Level: 6
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
It didn't take long for Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier to get this rest of his small stack into play.
According to the dealer, Freddy Deeb raised on the button to 6,000 with 
, and ElkY moved in with 
. Deeb made the call, and there were no suck-outs to be had as the board ran out nine-high.
We have now consolidated to one table, with Deeb sitting as our chip leader with 330,000.
Even though there is no money to be had until play gets four-handed, the final nine all want to get their camera time by making the official eight-handed final table. So far the action has tightened up with either a pre-flop open and no callers, or a pre-flop three-bet and no callers.
WIth the structure so fast, and some of the stacks relatively small this will certainly be no repeat of Wednesday's marathon bubble for the WPT Paris main event.
