Fabrice Soulier has certainly read the poker instructional manual, "how to gather a big chip stack in a tournament."
He always seems to near towards the top end of the leader board and although he has just lost a pot that takes him below the 400,000 mark; he still remains a very strong contender.
He raised to 5,500 from the hi-jack and Aleksandr Khizhnyak defended his big blind holding . The dealer gave us a flop of and Khizhnyak check-called a 9,500 Soulier bet with his teeny-weeny top pair. Both players checked the turn before we saw the last card which was a river. Khizhnyak pushed out a value bet of 10,000 and as people bolted for the doors and the break Soulier paid him off before mucking his cards.
Francesco Testa is out. He was already gone when we got there but the cards were still on the table - Testa's against the of a gentleman who awkwardly is in possession of an ID card that does not exist according to our list. The board read and we understand that the chips went in on the flop - Testa shoved, and apparently it took the unnamed gentleman four minutes to call. There was no suggestion that this was an intentional slowroll, but it still can't have been nice for Testa.
Carter Phillips just won a big pot against Victor Ramdin, the board was reading and Phillips had checked the river with what looked to be a couple of hundred thousand in the middle. Ramdin bet 75,000, a substantial bet at this stage of the competition which had Phillips dwelling for about five minutes.
Finally, Phillips picked up the chips for a call and then faked a wave of it over the line.
"That's a call!" said Ramdin.
"No, it's not," replied Phillips but seconds later he did throw the chips into the middle.
"King high," said Ramdin and Phillips turned over to reclaim a lot of the chips he'd previously lost.
Just minutes after Cada had eliminated Rumen Nanev he threw in a 7,000 raise while he was still re-building his stack. Barry Greenstein moved all-in for around 40,000 and then Ludovic Lacay moved all-in for substantially more in the small blind. Cada moved out of the way and Lacay and Greenstein were heads up.
Greenstein:
Lacay:
Board:
Greenstein asked Lacay for his name, wrote an inscription in the book and handed it to him alongside a congratulatory handshake.
Lacay told us later that this was the second time that Greenstein had handed Lacay a copy of his book. The previous event being four-years ago at WPT Barcelona and bizarrely it was the exact two same hand combinations.
We lost Nanev, Greenstein and then in the third consecutive hand we lost Keith Johnson. Johnson moved all-in for his last few bucks holding and he was called by Nicolas Chouity holding and that was the end of that.
. The dealer gave us a flop of 
and Khizhnyak check-called a 9,500 Soulier bet with his teeny-weeny top pair. Both players checked the 
turn before we saw the last card which was a 
river. Khizhnyak pushed out a value bet of 10,000 and as people bolted for the doors and the break Soulier paid him off before mucking his cards.
of a gentleman who awkwardly is in possession of an ID card that does not exist according to our list. The board read 
held up against the Russians 
in a pre flop all-in. Pollak now has 300,000.
to reclaim a lot of the chips he'd previously lost.
