Thorel All In on Bubble...
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You could have cut the tension with a butter knife as Jean-Noel Thorel in the big blind had his tournament life at risk on the very last hand of Level 15. Originally the day was scheduled to end at this very minute, but as we're at the pure bubble stage they've decided to carry on...
Thorel had just 30,000 or so, but also had 
- a just-in-time fingernails-on-cliff-edge monster hand which held against 
and gave him a 15bb stack back.
Meanwhile in the Main Tournament Arena (most tables have been consolidated, Pierre Neuville demonstrates the big blind bubble dwell, so effectively that the dealer asked him, "Do you know it's on you?"
"Of course I do, it's not my first tournament," he smiled, standing up and peering like a meerkat for all-ins around the room. No one busted; he folded.