On a flop, Chris Wolters checked, Gicquel Youn bet 15,000 and Wolters pushed all in. After asking the dealer to fan the pot, Youn took a shot with against Wolters' . No change on the turn and river, and Wolters doubled through. Youn, meanwhile, dropped to 30,000.
Today is not Arnaud Mattern's day. Just before the dinner break, he lost a huge chunk of his stack to fellow Frenchman David Benyamine. And he found himself again heads up against Benyamine for his tournament life. Benyamine raised 9,000 and Mattern shoved all in for 37,000. Benyamine called with pocket fours while Mattern tabled pocket queens. The way Mattern's day was going you almost had a feeling what was about to come. Yes... a four fell on the flop. Mattern did not improve his hand. Beanyamine won the pot with a set and Mattern headed to the rail.
The eliminations are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up. Thirteen players have already hit the rail since the bubble burst. Due to the congestion issues in the tournament area and overall lack of access for media outlets, we don't have all of that information available at this time. We apologize in advance. We will post a list of eliminations once we can confirm the names of the players who have cashed. Stay tuned.
The staff is currently handing out dessert to the players. There are two choices... ice cream and fruit salad. My fellow scribe Snoopy is preoccupied with a cup of strawberry ice cream.
Jonathan Aguiar just made a move with in the big blind, but was caught red-handed by initial raiser Antony Lellouche who woke up with . The board was of no interest and Aguiar was gone. Lellouche, on the other hand, now boasts a stack of 185,000.
The next Mrs. Snoopy?
Former PokerStars.com EPT London champion Vicky Coren is out. She raised to 17,000. Antony Lellouche reraised to 40,000. She called. The flop was rainbow. Antony Lellouche fired out 55,000. Coren shoved all in and Lellouche insta-called with kings. Coren tabled pocket tens. The turn was a king and Coren was drawing dead.
That pot pushed Antony Lellouche into the chip lead with over 470,000.
The future Mrs Snoopy... #4
Just before the blinds went up, Joseph Elpayaa limped UTG, only for Vanessa Rousso to make it 10,600 from the next seat along. Folded around to Max Pescatori in the big blind who, after a brief pause, bumped it up to 45,600.
The limper folded and Rousso deep-reached for her entire stack and slid it across the felt. Pescotori made the call for what was around 60,000 or 70,000, although this figure would need to be confirmed.
Rousso =
Pescatori =
Board =
A devastated Rousso shook her head and seemed glued to her seat, her mouth slightly ajar. "How could you call?" she asked. After the dealer confirmed that Pescatori had her covered, Rousso made her exit.
Pescatori had 185,00 at the start of the hand, so now has well over 250,000.
It hasn't been the best of levels for Scotty Nguyen, the 1998 World Champ being bashed down to 70,000. In his last encounter, he raised Eric Liu's standard preflop raise to 20,000, but conceded his hand when Liu made it around 125,000 to play.
flop, Chris Wolters checked, Gicquel Youn bet 15,000 and Wolters pushed all in. After asking the dealer to fan the pot, Youn took a shot with 
against Wolters' 
. No change on the 
turn and 
river, and Wolters doubled through. Youn, meanwhile, dropped to 30,000.
in the big blind, but was caught red-handed by initial raiser Antony Lellouche who woke up with 
. The 
board was of no interest and Aguiar was gone. Lellouche, on the other hand, now boasts a stack of 185,000.
rainbow. Antony Lellouche fired out 55,000. Coren shoved all in and Lellouche insta-called with kings. Coren tabled pocket tens. The turn was a king and Coren was drawing dead. 
