Rabah Ait Abdelmalek and Giuseppe Zarbo both began today sitting next to each other with below average stacks. And after of couple of orbits, Abdelmalek's prospects have now improved while Zarbo's EPT Deauville Main Event run has reached its conclusion.
The pair's fortunes were interwined, as all of Zarbo's chips found their way into the middle on fourth street with the board showing and Zarbo holding . Alas for him, Abdelmalek held for trip fours, and after the river Zarbo was eliminated.
Benjamin Truzman may be seated on the same table as Ben Warrington, Ana Marquez and Elisabeth Hille but that has not stopped him enjoying himself.
The action folded around to Truzman in the cutoff and after checking the size of the blinds, Truzman raised to 2,000. Warrington was in the small blind and he three-bet to 5,900. Truzman snap-called and it was off to the flop.
Warrington lead out for 6,600 which prompted Truzman to ask, "do you have sixes? I have better than sixes," and then Truzman called. The turn brought the into play and Truzman said, "Now you have very good hand!"
Warrington fired again, making it 11,500 to play, but no sooner had his chips hit the felt Truzman moved all-in. Warrington looked puzzled about the bet and asked for a count.
"112,200" said the dealer before Truzman added, "that's a lot of chips!"
Warrington rocked back in his chair and asked if Truzman would show. Truzman said no, but when Warrington folded he tossed his cards to him and allowed him to choose one. Warrington picked the card closest to him and it was the .
Pascal Anzar has started Day 2 well and now has twice as many chips as he started with. He only has 37,000 so he is still not what you would describe as deepstacked, but he is in a much healthier position than he was when play started.
The action passed around to Anzar in middle position and he moved all-in for 17,600 chips. Atanas Gueorguiev was in the big blind and he called.
Vitaly Lunkin began Day 2 sitting in 416th position of 419 remaining players, and thus it wasn't too surprising to see him on the very first hand shoving his short stack of less than 10 big blinds from under the gun.
None called him on that hand, but the Russian would subsequently fail to survive the blinds, and he becomes one of the first to hit the rail on Day 2.
Welcome back to day 2 of PokerStars.fr Deauville. The remaining 419 players combine under one roof today where they will be culled over eight hours of poker play. There’s no dinner break scheduled for today, just six 75-minute levels with short breaks after every two levels.
David Ostrom ended day 1b as chip leader and he starts today as overall chip leader with 212,600. The only other person with more than 200,000 is Casey Kastle (204,500) and lest we not forget a chasing pack that includes Phillipe Boucher (160,700), Nic Levi (83,400), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (105,500), Sandra Naujoks, (89,800), Lex Veldhuis (78,500) and Freddy Deeb (82,500).
Play is due to start at 12pm CET and as always on Day 2s we expect the action and the bust outs to be at frantic pace from the off.