Vanessa Selbst, shortly before min-cashing the main and diving straight into the side event
Meanwhile in the €2,000 side event - the biggest side event this season outside of the PCA, with 439 runners and a mouthwatering €250,000 first prize - Mustapha Kanit is in the lead. His name may be unfamiliar to some, but over here Mr. Kanit is big news - he won this year's IPT Nova Gorica and just this week picked up two IPT awards, for Best Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year.
Also still in the running are Vanessa Selbst, Jonathan Duhamel, JP Kelly, Angel Guillen, Alex Gomes, Vadim Markushevski, Nacho Barbero and Marcin Horecki. 150 players remain, of whom 40 are going to get paid.
Cole Robinson has been eliminated at the hands of Roberto Spada.
We joined the action on the flop with smiling at us. Spada was in the big blind and he had checked to Robinson. Robinson counted out a bet of 40,000 and he moved it across the line. The heavily tattooed Spada was chewing like a masticating cow when he check-raised to 92,000 and Robinson made the call.
Turn:
Spada did not check this time. Instead he over-bet the pot with a bet of 250,000 and Robinson snap-called.
Spada
Robinson
The river sealed Robinson's fate and Spada moved up to 1,630,000
On a board of both players checked before the dealer gave us a river card of . Ludovic Lacay was in the big blind and he bet 67,000 into a 100,000 pot and Nicolino Di Carlo made the call.
Lacay peeled over for aces full and a smiling Nicolino Di Carlo peeled over a solitary .
Andrew Teng opened up to 35,000 preflop before Fabrice Soulier made it 86,000 on the button. Teng almost began to gurn a bit before he slid out a 4-bet to 158,000 with around 450,000 behind. Soulier quickly moved all in, Teng thought for about a minute or so and then made the call.
Teng:
Soulier:
The board came and Soulier was crippled to about 160,000. Teng is up to 1.2 million
The flop read when Luca Cavecchi bet out 42,000 from the big blind. UTG+1, Francesco Delfoco shove for a little over 200,000. It was a big decision for Cavecchi - the stacks were roughly even - but eventually he called. It wasn't a good call.
Cavecchi:
Delfoco:
But wait!
Turn: making Cavecchi trips
River:
Delfoco gazed around the room as though into the abyss. He busted out in 49th place, just before the next pay jump. Cavecchi is meanwhile up to 550,000.
Max Heinzelmann has doubled back up to about 550,000 after he cold 4-bet all-in from the big blind for 266,000 over Fabrizio Cataldi's initial open to 33,000 and Anthony Picault made it 75,000 on the button.
Cataldi folded but Picault made the call with , Heinzelmann flipped . The was a good one for the Frenchman but the on the turn suddenly gave Heinzelmann many more outs. The came on the river and Picault made two pair but the runner-up from EPT Berlin had made a straight to survive.
Just a few hands after losing most of his stack to Andrew Teng, Fabrice Soulier handed the Brit the rest of his chips.
David Lichentin had made the opening raise to 35,000 and Teng had just called from the button when Soulier shoved from the small blind for his last 143,000. Lichentin removed his shades and blinked furiously for a little while but eventually folded; Teng also removed his sunglasses and blinked, but he made the call.
Soulier:
Teng:
Board:
And with that, Soulier was gone. Teng is up to 1.45 million.
The Ludovic Lacay roller coaster continues - he's now up to around a million.
We only caught the very end of the hand, but the board read and Lacay had bet 137,000. Costantino Russo thought about it for a little while and eventually called, but mucked to Lacay's straight and dropped to 650,000.
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smiling at us. Spada was in the big blind and he had checked to Robinson. Robinson counted out a bet of 40,000 and he moved it across the line. The heavily tattooed Spada was chewing like a masticating cow when he check-raised to 92,000 and Robinson made the call.
and Spada moved up to 1,630,000
both players checked before the dealer gave us a river card of 
. Ludovic Lacay was in the big blind and he bet 67,000 into a 100,000 pot and Nicolino Di Carlo made the call.
for aces full and a smiling Nicolino Di Carlo peeled over a solitary 
and Soulier was crippled to about 160,000. Teng is up to 1.2 million
making Cavecchi trips
was a good one for the Frenchman but the 
