Meanwhile at the corner table (which can be viewed by leaving the tournament area, going all the way around to the door, coming back up some stairs and then peering over the banister), Kevin Lambert raised under the gun. Martin Jacobson called behind, and both Julien Claudepierre and Emile Petit in the blinds made the call.
The flop came down and it checked around to Lambert, who bet. Jacobson called, the blinds both folded, and they were heads up to the turn.
Both players checked the turn and they proceeded to the river. Lambert bet out 88,000, but Jacobson made it 222,000 to go and Lambert let him take the pot.
Didier Mazairac has doubled up to about 900,000 through Anthony Hnatow after he was all-in preflop with against the Frenchman's . The Belgian hit the board hard when it came to dent Hnatow's 2.3 million stack, he has about 1.8 million remaining.
Alex Wice is continuing his stranglehold on this tournament, it was passed to him on the button and he simply pushed his large stack of 50k chips over the line putting Riccardo Giacalone and Fabrice Soulier to the test. Giacalone quickly folded, but Soulier tanked for several minutes before eventually admitting defeat and surrendering his big blind.
We have had our first elimination of Day five and the unlucky player is Emile Petit.
Martin Jacobson raised to ~54,000 from under the gun and Petit three-bet to ~165,000. Everyone folded and it was back to Jacobson to act who announced he was all-in and Petit called immediately.
It was a case of the right hand at the wrong time as Petit showed and Jacobson showed Petit his worse nightmare with . It then went from bad to worse as the dealer spread the flop on the deck and the first card to be seen was the . The followed and Petit was out.
Kevin Keosomphet check the flop to his neighbour Anthony Hnatow, who bet 61,000. Keosomphet flat-called.
Keosomphet check-called 206,000 from Hnatow on the turn as well, and they got to see the river - a dangerous-looking , meaning that a man would only need an ace or a six to make a straight. Keosomphet checked one last time, and Hnatow, who'd been pointedly peering over to assess Keosomphet's remaining stack since the flop, promptly went all in to cover.
Keosomphet now commenced several minutes in the tank, head in hands; eventually he folded and presumably was now fervently wishing that he hadn't played them quite so slowly.
Hnatow is up to 2 million now. Keosomphet is reduced to 850,000.
Last hand before the break saw Fabrice Soulier raise to 59,000 with about 210,000 behind only to make a very big fold when Julien Claudepierre set him all-in from the blinds.
Soulier tanked long and hard before folding , Claudepierre showed him .
Meanwhile on the other table William Johnson had raised Lucien Cohen's 65,000 turn bet on a board to 200,000, prompting the Frenchman to get his life-size fake rat out once more... Eventually though, he elected to fold.
Anthony Hnatow opened from the button and Fried Meulders reraised all-in from the small blind, the Frenchman snap-called.
Hnatow:
Meulders:
The flop of changed nothing but the turn meant Meulders' outs increased to five but the river was another and Hnatow celebrated with a little fist pump, regaining the chips he lost earlier to Didier Mazairac.
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and it checked around to Lambert, who bet. Jacobson called, the blinds both folded, and they were heads up to the turn.
turn and they proceeded to the 
river. Lambert bet out 88,000, but Jacobson made it 222,000 to go and Lambert let him take the pot.
against the Frenchman's 
. The Belgian hit the board hard when it came 
to dent Hnatow's 2.3 million stack, he has about 1.8 million remaining.
and Jacobson showed Petit his worse nightmare with 
. It then went from bad to worse as the dealer spread the flop on the deck and the first card to be seen was the 
. The 
flop to his neighbour Anthony Hnatow, who bet 61,000. Keosomphet flat-called.
turn as well, and they got to see the river - a dangerous-looking 
, meaning that a man would only need an ace or a six to make a straight. Keosomphet checked one last time, and Hnatow, who'd been pointedly peering over to assess Keosomphet's remaining stack since the flop, promptly went all in to cover.
, Claudepierre showed him 
changed nothing but the