Some river drama was the last that one-time big stack Kristoffer Thorsson will experience. It's been very entertaining watching his tables but the Thorsson movie ended with a river call all-in (130,000 in the pot, a little more than that behind) on a board of 
. His opponent Joao Studart waited patiently for a couple of minutes while he came to a decision - but Thorsson mucked and left the table when Studart showed him 
.
Lucien Cohen was all in, but he was surprisingly quiet - the reason being that he was holding 
and was up against Andrew Li's 
, a chop the most likely outcome. Duly the board ran out an uneventful 
and Cohen sat back down with a complete lack of fist pumps, shouting and giant rats.
Thomas Pettersson raised from the button and faced a reraise from Daniel Weinman in the small blind. Pettersson shoved for around 200,000, and after a while Weinman called.
Pettersson: 
Weinman: very behind with 
Board: 
Pettersson collected his 400,000 and looked pleased. Weinman was left with 285,000, around half what he started the level with.
From the way in which Lucien Cohen was carrying on, arms akimbo, standing up, shouting "NIIIIINE" and pointing at his face-up 
, you'd think it was his stack at risk, all in preflop. But it was Jason Grad, silent, stoic Jason Grad, who was all in with 
. He said not a word as the board missed his ace, and Cohen celebrated with a mighty roar as his stack received another boost.
Grzegorz Cichocki's final stand was made preflop (in a button to big blind confrontation) with 
against 
. An ace on the flop took Cichocki's last 250,000 and puts him in the €20,000 payout bracket.
I've covered maybe forty EPT's since it's inception but I have to say there are few odder sights in the poker world than Lucien Cohen when the cameras are on him. He had check-raised all in on a flop of 
against Alex Gomes and Hugo Lemaire and stood up stroking his fake rat with a maniacal look on his face, occasionally talking to said rat.
Gomes eventually folded and Lemaire (over whose bet Cohen had shoved) quickly called with 
, Cohen, who won EPT Deauville carrying what we would expect was the same rat, triumphantly turned over 
and doubled up after a turn and 
river.
Andre Alcaria moved all in for 140,500 preflop over the top of Kjartan Berger Jonsson's preflop raise and the Icelandic player made the call.
Jonsson:
Alcaria: 
The flop came 
, "Jack?" inquired Alcaria but the turn was 
meaning Alcaria went from two outs to three. The river was the , not enough for the Frenchman and he's out.
Allen Bari has been eliminated, in dramatic fashion. The hand which did the real damage, leaving him with just a big blind or two at the end, started with button Eugene Yanayt raising 
and ended with Bari getting him all in holding 
.
The flop (and this is a sick one): ! The turn and river came 
and Bari muttered disconsolately to his fortunate neighbour. I only caught the phrases, "Spew off loads of chips," and "Get rewarded."
When his 
fell to 
the next hand, he stood up and asked the way to the cash desk, in a tone which a non-player might have implied the catastrophic destruction of all his worldly possessions rather than that he'd just cashed for €25,000 in a poker tournament.
Litterio Pirrotta got his whole 210,000 stack in preflop with and was up against Daniel Weinman's .
Board: 
Pirrotta doubled to 430,000; Weinman looked down sadly at his remaining 135,000. "When I came here I had six," he lamented.
Tim Finne has been eliminated in an all-in preflop confrontation, unavoidable with his short stack and . William Reynolds, however, was dealt at a prime moment to take another scalp, and take it he did as the board came down 
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