Lucille Cailly has just shown her table that she is not to be messed with by making a move with just eight-high on a double paired, flushed board!
Alain Goldberg got the hand started with a raise to 1,000 from UTG+1. Cailly called the raise a couple of seats along, Jean Pierre Petroli called on the button and Kevin MacPhee called from the big blind.
The flop was checked to Cailly and she bet 2,600. Petroli raised this bet to 6,025. MacPhee and Goldberg folded but Cailly called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river brought the into play, putting a potential flush out there and double pairing the board!
Cailly stood from her chair in order to get a better view of Petroli's remaining chips, sat back down and bet 21,000. This was for around half of Petroli's stack and her own, essentially saying she was calling a shove. After six long minutes, Petroli reluctantly folded pocket fives face up and was shown for his troubles!
Aliaksei Vesialou has just emptied the clip on Jason Tompkins and it forced the Irishman to fold.
On a flop, Vesialou bet 1,600 and Tompkins called. The turn was greeted with a 3,000 bet from Vesialou and another call from Tompkins. The flush completing fell on the river and Vesialou moved all in for 12,400 and Tompkins let his hand go.
Yesterday, in front of the EPT Live cameras, the Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso pulled off a sensational bluff against Tim Reilly, apparently getting him to fold trip jacks after representing precisely pocket kings. "If you show a bluff, I will be impressed," Reilly said at the time, which prompted Rousso to show an off-suit five. (It didn't connect at all.)
PokerStars Blog caught up with Rousso earlier in the day to listen to her thinking at all stages. You can watch the hand again and then listen to Rousso's rationale. It is quite the explanation.
With the board reading , Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier moved all in against two players, one of them, Martin Handle, made the call.
Grospellier:
Handle:
This doubled up the Frenchman to 60,000 and he then doubled up again, eliminating Handle soon after with K-5 against A-J after all the chips went in on the river of a K-A-5-4-5 board.
As we move into the final level of Day 1b, the blinds and antes have reached a crisis point for some with below-average stacks.
Case in point: Seat 1 on Table 29 isn't proving a very habitable location. Bryn Kenney recently lost the last of his chips while sitting there to be eliminated. And soon after another short-stacked player ran into the of Freerk Post, and when the community cards came ten-high yet another hit the rail.
It's France v the rest of the world at #EPTDeauville as local players account for 49% of total 782-runner field. See how many from your country made the trip to Normandy, with PokerStars Blog.
Thibaud Guenegou has been eliminated from the main event after his fellow countryman Victor Chopeaux hit a runner-runner straight.
We arrived at the table to see Guenegou all-in with the in front of him — the same hand that resulted in Vicky Coren's elimination earlier in the evening — and Chopeaux with in front of him. The flop had already been dealt and the was the next card out of the deck, its appearance prompting a few ooh la la's from those seated at the table. The completed an unlikely straight for Chopeaux and with that Guenegou's tournament came to an abrupt end.
flop was checked to Cailly and she bet 2,600. Petroli raised this bet to 6,025. MacPhee and Goldberg folded but Cailly called. The turn was the 
and both players checked. The river brought the 
into play, putting a potential flush out there and double pairing the board!
for his troubles!
flop, Vesialou bet 1,600 and Tompkins called. The 
turn was greeted with a 3,000 bet from Vesialou and another call from Tompkins. The flush completing 
fell on the river and Vesialou moved all in for 12,400 and Tompkins let his hand go.
into the 
of Freerk Post, and when the community cards came ten-high yet another hit the rail.
flop had already been dealt and the