Olivier Rogez raised to 85,000 from the hijack and Paul Guichard called on the button.
The flop fell and Rogez checked. Guichard bet 55,000, Rogez min-raised to 110,000, and Guichard called to see the turn. Another check from Rogez led to a Guichard bet of 155,000. There would be no check-raise from Rogez this time as he just called, landing the on the river.
A third check from Rogez resulted in Guichard betting 525,000. After about one minute in the tank Rogez called, but saw the bad news as Guichard tabled for the nuts.
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Chris Brammer finally managed to accrue some chips today off his nemesis, Olivier Rogez. He open shoved for 360,000 from the cut-off and was only called by the Frenchman from the button.
Brammer:
Rogez:
The board ran .
Brammer thought he had been flopped dead, and must have thought his hand wasn't going to hold. It did, and he some more chips to play with.
Rumen Nanev was moved tables after that huge hand, and was straight in to the blind blind. He faced a raise to 75,000 from Olivier Rogez and a call from Sergey Baburin. He moved all in for 126,000 and both opponents called.
The Flop fell and a Rogez lead was enough to get it heads-up. The Frenchman tabled for top two-pair, way ahead of Nanev's . The board ran out and the Bulgarian made his exit.