Erik Cajelais has now sat down at a table with Toby Lewis and Ted Forrest; EPT Prague winner Jan Skampa is spending the day with Chris Moneymaker and Michael Tureniec.
Nicolas Levi is out of his seat, out the door and out of the EPT Grand Final. As the blinds went up, a preflop monster pot was created by what looked like four big hands. There was an early-position 1,500 lying across the line, and a mid-position raise to 5,100. The cutoff (an as yet unidentified Spanish player, chewing what looked like one of those plastic coffee stirrers) then moved all-in, for just under the 30,000 starting stack.
Then Nicolas Levi called all in (25,000).
Then the 1,500 bettor started to work through his timebank! This hand had exploded out of the starting gates and had created the biggest pot so far today, and it was with a headshake that this gent finally released his hand. The re-popper folded much faster, and the two all-in players flipped their hands up:
Levi:
Coffee-Stirrer Gentleman:
The board brought the outdraw: and when the queen came on the flop it also brought a noise like, "Oh-ah-eee!" from the outdrawer. Levi just stood up and said, "That's that," walking calmly off.
While one Frenchman is having an awful day (Nic Levi, busto as reported), another one is doing rather better - Arnaud Mattern has already doubled up.
We're not sure of the details, but we understand that the Team PokerStars Pro flopped a flush with and got the lot in against a gentleman holding the bare , which failed to hit. Mattern is among our current chip leaders on 60,000.
Erik Cajelais is up a few thousand, his latest stack addition coming at the expense of EPT Vilamoura champ Toby Lewis. The young Brit had raised to 400 preflop, three-bet by Cajelais to 1,500 from the small blind. Lewis made the call and they saw a flop. Check from Cajelais; Lewis bet 2,000. Cajelais called. Both players checked the flop, and on the river the Canadian bet out 3,800. A long think later and Lewis finally gave up on the pot.
By the by, Tom Dwan is here! He's seated at a table of impressive pedigree, featuring as it does Joe Cada, Casey Kastle and Tomer Berda. Nevertheless the durrrrster appears to have a rail all his own.
Big pocket pairs squared off on Table 39 just now, giving Iaroslav Boiko an early double stack. The preflop action between him and Seat 9 had generated a pot of 14,000 already, and when the flop arrived Boiko check-raised his opponent's 7,000 bet by a further 12,075 (all in). There followed all the signs of mental torture from his opponent, but he didn't release his , losing to Boiko's as the turn and river changed nothing.
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and when the queen came on the flop it also brought a noise like, "Oh-ah-eee!" from the outdrawer. Levi just stood up and said, "That's that," walking calmly off.
and got the lot in against a gentleman holding the bare 
, which failed to hit. Mattern is among our current chip leaders on 60,000.
flop, and on the 
Boiko check-raised his opponent's 7,000 bet by a further 12,075 (all in). There followed all the signs of mental torture from his opponent, but he didn't release his 
as the turn and river changed nothing.