We came upon Table 13 just now with Sandra Naujoks deep in the tank. The board showed and about 35,000 sat in the middle, and following her check her opponent Aleksey Churbanov had fired a bet of 17,000.
Naujoks considered a couple of minutes before finally letting her hand go, Churbanov's expression appearing to communicate considerable relief as she did.
Karim Abdelmoumene has just had a set paid off by British pro Mathew Frankland.
We joined the action on a flop, Abdelmoumene check-called a 2,600 bet from Frankland. The saw Abdelmoumene check again, but when Frankland bet 6,800 Abdelmoumene check-raised to 17,000. Frankland called.
The river saw both players check.
Frankland mucked when he was shown the of his opponent, later claiming on Twitter to have held pocket kings .
Look out for this particular table on the lie stream as they have become the feature table.
It originally seemed as if the registrations team had made a mistake. But on further investigation it turned out to be true: there was only one player from Denmark in the whole of the EPT Deauville field. PokerStars Blog went looking for the reason behind such a poor Danish turnout, and discovered it had a lot to do with beer.
Luca Moschitta busted just before the break after he admitted he needed to gamble.
The PokerStars Team Online member raised before he was set all in by Guy Tomaselli. "I hope you have ace-king," said Moschitta before he called with pocket sevens.
He was out of luck though as Tomaselli opened and went on to make a flush on the board.
Nicolas Levi opened for 2,600 from under the gun, then saw four players stick around for the flop, including Tobias Peters sitting one seat to his left and Jean Vasseur playing from the button. The flop came . It checked to Peters who bet 6,500, then when the action reached Vasseur he pushed all in for about 30,000.
It folded back to Peters. "If I call, do I get to see a showdown?" he asked with a grin. A moment later he did call, showing for aces. Then he leaned over to see Vasseur's hand — for a set of fours.
"Ah, you did good," said a still-smiling Peters. The turn brought the and the river the , and Vasseur earned the more-than-double-up.
Soon after a short-stacked Ghassan El Hoss doubled through Vasseur when his survived against Vasseur's after the board came .