Adrien Allain got his last in good with 
against Sergey Kislinskiy's 
. But the board came down 
to make him the bubble-bubble boy and he left without a word, looking slightly queasy. Be kind if you find him throwing up in the gents'.
Down to 129 players, we are now hand for hand and press have been banished to the edge of the room. Please stand by.
The flop read 
and the pot was really quite small when Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski (big blind) made a large bet and Fabrice Soulier (late position) made a huge raise to put him in. Nowak-Rogozinski called all in, and they were on their backs.
Nowak-Rogozinski: 
for a very reasonable top pair, top kicker
Soulier: at it with 
Turn: 
giving Soulier a few outs
River: 
which was a great relief for Nowak-Rogozinski. He stood up and did a little dance as he doubled to around 400,000 and survived the bubble-bubble.
"Did you like the turn?" drawled Soulier. He's dropped to a still pretty hefty 560,000.
Guillaume de la Gorce, who was chip leader after day 1, went all-in for the very first time just on the cusp of the bubble with 
and lost the flip, leaving the tournament floor in very disappointed fashion.
As we approach the bubble you would think that the action would slow down a little; someone tell the players on table 17.
We joined this hand on the turn. It was the and it had just joined the flop of 
when Rodolphe Lampe bet 35,000 and Kenny Hallaert called. The river was the and Lampe checked and Hallaert pushed a huge bet of 163,500 into the middle and after a little consideration Lampe called. Hallaert took the sizeable pot down with 
and Lampe mucked his hand.
David Sonelin started the day as big chip leader but he's now merely a fairly big stack.
We don't know what he was holding as his cards had been mucked by the time we arrived, but whatever his hand was it couldn't beat the of Michael Fratty on the 
board. Fratty stood up and shook his fists in the air, making a noise like, "NNNNHHHHH!!! to alert everyone in the vicinity to his fine luck.
Current scores - Sonelin 345,000, Fratty 725,000.
Ludovic Lacay has eliminated Gerald Aguinet after the latter called all-in on the river of a 
board. Lacay flipped 
and Aguinet looked disgusted and mucked his cards.
Meanwhile Fabrice Soulier has knocked out a player with 
against 
but not without a sweat on the 
board.
We're just a couple of places from the money now.
Zerbib we spotted walking up the stairs towards the door; Perepletchikov we found standing up at the tables, his whole stack disappearing into that of Mathew Frankland. Frankland's at 310,000 by the way.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
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