With the elimination of Jeff Sarwer and another player from his table shortly afterwards, Table 7 found itself down to just six players and in need of some players from another table.
Team PokerStars pro Marcin Horecki asked if they could wait until another table broke before they carried on playing, a request that was accepted, though they did not have to wait long as another two players were reseated within a couple of minutes
Walking through the tournament area just now, I heard the words every blogger loves. No not it's time to go home but "All in!"
The words came from Jeff Sarwer, fresh from his battle with Guillaume Darcourt just moments before. It appeared Sarwer raised preflop, Darcourt came over the top of him, then snap called when Sarwer moved all in.
Sarwer:
Darcourt:
The first card out on the flop was the prompting mini "yes" from Sarwer, but any thoughts of celebration were soon halted as the next twoo cards were the and , giving Darcourt a set of queens.
"Of course you flop a set," said a dejected Sarwer and when the appeared on the turn, locking up the hand for Darcourt, Sarwer rose from his seat, shook his opponent's hand and quickly left the tournament floor. Whilst he was leaving the dealer completed the hand by putting the out there.
Darcourt is now up to 139,725 and could quite possibly be our new chip leader
As we head into the business end of this here Day 1, Mr. Fabrice Soulier has lurched into the lead. The details are a little hazy, but ladies' favourite Soulier has turned an already big stack before dinner into a massive chip-leading stack now - 115,000 and rising.
Ronan Monfort, for whom everyone in the press room is secretly rooting (he's one of us, we can't help it!), has just doubled up. We think he reraised from the button to a raise from the gent in the hijack. Mr. Hijack four-bet and Monfort either five-bet or called all in, and it was an easy double up to 40,000 for the young Frenchman.
An early dent after the dinner break's end to the former chip leader Jeff Sarwer's stack. The trio of culprits: big slick, two pair and an unhelpful river. A pot was already growing when 8,000 was bet (by Sarwer, it looked like) on the turn of a board. The button, Guillaume Darcourt, was his only opponent, reaching the river: .
Now Sarwer checked, and Darcourt bet 13,500. Sarwer called swiftly, saying, "I hope I didn't get rivered..."
But Darcourt showed for rivered trips which had indeed just beaten Sarwer's . He counted off the chips, apparently not the first time he'd lost to Darcourt.
"Of course," he sighed, "Every time against you. You can't win tournaments like that. It looked like I got rivered because I did."
Sometimes your opponents expect you to move all in so betting smaller completely throws them off course. Nicolas Levi just played a hand that showed this perfectly.
On a board reading and with around 12,000 in the pot, Levi bet 5,000 chips, leaving himself just 6,000 behind. This visibly shocked his opponent, weho clearly expected a shove. The play worked as Levi's opponent folded, leaving him to stack up 23,000 chips and giving himself a little more room to play
Your current chip leader is one Jeff Sarwer, whom you may remember from such EPT productions as Warsaw 2009 (10th place), Vilamoura 2009 (third place) and the EPT Berlin High Roller event (runner up).
A drop to a short stack for Branden Rupp just before dinner, which led to a premature exit to the buffet (or, as Kevin MacPhee suggested, to, "Punch a wall.")
Ramon Cserei moved all in preflop with (it wasn't just a plain shove, there were raises, but we only arrived as they were turning their hands over). Cserei had 11,125 at the start of the hand, and Rupp under 20,000. Rupp's was ahead, but straight away the flop brought the single overcard: . The turn and river () changed nothing and Rupp muttered an exasperated, "You're too good," as he lost most of his stack and walked off to recover elsewhere.
prompting mini "yes" from Sarwer, but any thoughts of celebration were soon halted as the next twoo cards were the 
and 
, giving Darcourt a set of queens.
appeared on the turn, locking up the hand for Darcourt, Sarwer rose from his seat, shook his opponent's hand and quickly left the tournament floor. Whilst he was leaving the dealer completed the hand by putting the 
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board. The button, Guillaume Darcourt, was his only opponent, reaching the river: 
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for rivered trips which had indeed just beaten Sarwer's 
. He counted off the chips, apparently not the first time he'd lost to Darcourt.
was ahead, but straight away the flop brought the single overcard: 