The board read when we got there, almost 20,000 in the pot. A player whose name we unable to ascertain owing to the medieval table arrangement in here bet out 15,000 to cover Lucien Cohen, who only had a shade over 5,000 left to his name. Cohen deliberated silently for a few moments, before standing up, pushing his stack across the line, and commencing shouting.
Cohen: for a flush draw
Gentleman opponent:
River:
"LE PHOENIX!" cried Mr. Cohen. "LE PHOENIX!!!" flagrantly disobeying the English-only rule and prompting some of the other players at the table to exchange a few looks. Anyway, the EPT Deauville champ eventually sat back down (although it took another couple minutes for the shouting to cease) and is now at 30,000.
We didn't catch all the action, but we know that the gentleman under the gun - let us call him Player A - a player in mid position - Player B, for our purposes - and Jeff Sarwer in the cutoff all put 11,000 in preflop. Big pot.
So the chips were being pulled in and the flop dealt when we arrived.
Flop:
It checked around to Sarwer who bet 10,000. This was enough to push Player A off, but not Player B, who went all in. Sarwer called, and they were on their backs.
Sarwer:
Player B: a speculative
Turn:
River:
Player B took his leave. Sarwer, meanwhile, appears to be our chip leader on 130,000.
Button Kevin Stani started a curious hand with a raise to 1,200. Both blinds called, Antony Lellouche the big blind. The flop came down and the blinds checked to the preflop raiser. Stani bet 1,600. The small blind (new to the table) called, but Lellouche checked out his own <20k stack and the slightly larger one of Stani before raising to 4,700. A long think ended up with a Stani shove, at which point Lellouche's cards flew into the muck.
Antony Lellouche had found himself set all-in by Jeff Sarwer in a blind vs blind battle. The Frenchman thought for a minute before declaring, "Ok,let's go!" Then he pushed his stack in the middle turning over to Sarwer's
The board was and Lellouche shrugged, wished everyone good luck and made his way out of the tournament area.
The gentleman under the gun raised to 1,500, only for Jon Spinks to make it 3,625 to go. But Cristian Dragomir now made it 8,625, and both his opponents folded.
The EPT Snowfest finalist is up to 78,000. Spinks, by the by, is at 68,000.
Jeff Sarwer raised to 1,700 from the button before the small blind made it 4,500. Sarwer now made it 14,000 and the small blind tanked before moving all-in for 28,250. Sarwer shrugged and called off the rest.
Sarwer:
Small Blind:
The flop came and Sarwer was left needing runner-runner but after the turn and river, the Canadian was left wincing a little as he gave up almost 30,000 in chips to knock himself back down to around 110,000.
when we got there, almost 20,000 in the pot. A player whose name we unable to ascertain owing to the medieval table arrangement in here bet out 15,000 to cover Lucien Cohen, who only had a shade over 5,000 left to his name. Cohen deliberated silently for a few moments, before standing up, pushing his stack across the line, and commencing shouting.
for a flush draw
and the blinds checked to the preflop raiser. Stani bet 1,600. The small blind (new to the table) called, but Lellouche checked out his own <20k stack and the slightly larger one of Stani before raising to 4,700. A long think ended up with a Stani shove, at which point Lellouche's cards flew into the muck.
to Sarwer's 
and Lellouche shrugged, wished everyone good luck and made his way out of the tournament area.
and Sarwer was left needing runner-runner but after the 
river, the Canadian was left wincing a little as he gave up almost 30,000 in chips to knock himself back down to around 110,000.
