The tweet speaks for itself. PMU pro Brian Benhamou never recovered from losing against a flush draw and then ran with pocket kings into the only hand that beats him.
Four tables had remained in the secondary tournament area and Carlos Lopes just headed out quickly. Only seconds later, Pascal Vos followed. The Dutchman was moved to table four about two minutes ago and would also be sent to the rail as well.
Joining the action on a four-way turn of a board, the player in the big blind bet 2,800 and Marcel Luske called. The player on the button then raised to 9,300 and only Luske called to see the river. The Dutchman moved all in almost immediately for what looked like 35,000 and was greeted with a fold.
Pavel Koliago had just busted and David van Roosbroeck then limped from the small blind to see Smain Mamouni move all in for around 16,000 chips from one seat over. The Belgian quickly called and flipped over the . Maouni only held the and was out of the door after a board of .
Both Niels Gybels and van Roosbroeck have increased their stacks once again, though the latter was already at said amount before losing it in a matter of two levels.
Over in the secondary tournament area, Fabrice Somers put his last 4,000 chips on but would not succeed. A few tables over, Arnaud Peyroles was all in for his last 13,200 chips and Dominique Terzian moved all in for almost three times the amount. Nobody else would call and Terzian's crushed the of his opponent on a board of .
Level 10 has started and the screens show 247 entries for the second starting day. It remains to be officially confirmed whether or not the 247 for day 1b is the correct number. One thing is already certain though: Nobody can sign up anymore, as the registration is now closed.
And everybody that bows out early can head straight to the Kameleon Sky Bar on the 7th floor to grab free drinks.
After having to fold previously, Dominique Terzian now got his stack in with and got called by an opponent with . As soon as he spotted the bad news, the Frenchman sighed and stood up, ready to leave. However, the dealer burned and turned a board of to let Terzian double up for 18,000.
Carlos Lopes had pushed twice with his super short stack but didn't get called, joking to us when we walked by that he "had almost doubled. One more time and I have doubled." On the same table is also Heinrich Pauker, who is among the bigger stacks in the room.
Tournament staff had previously confirmed that Matthias de Clercq would be out, however they double checked again and the Belgian is in fact still in. Not only that, he does have 125,000 chips over on table 17.