Nicolas Chouity raised from the button and Andrew Chen called in the small blind. Herve Costa folded his big blind, and they went heads up to a flop.
Flop:
Chen checked, and then called the 250,000 bet from Chouity. They proceeded.
Turn:
Chen checked again, and this time Chouity checked behind.
River:
Chen bet out 425,000 as the fourth heart fell on the river. Chouity called, and announced, "Ace." He turned over . Presumably Chen didn't have either a heart or a better ace, as he mucked and Chouity edged above the 11 million mark.
[Removed:146] raised to 215,000 and Nicolas Chouity made the call.
The flop was and both players checked. The turn paired coming with the and Guerfi bet 310,000 and Chouity made the call.
The river was the and Guerfi thought for a while before betting 785,000. Chouity announced all-in and Guerfi called, having committed most of his stack.
Chouity flipped for a full house and Guerfi could only show for rivered top pair.
Chouity has almost 15 million chips of the 24 million in play. He is a monster.
It folded around to Andrew Chen on the button who raised to 1.2 million, enough to cover both Herve Costa and Roger Hairabedian in the blinds. They both folded, and are now dangerously short, COsta with nine big blinds and Hairabedian with just six.