Level 27
: 25,000/50,000, 5,000 ante
The remaining 13 players have reached the end of Level 27 and are now taking a 60-minute dinner break. Bon appétit... see you back in an hour.
2013 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 5
Level: 28
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 5,000
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Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
If you know James Mitchell, you probably want to mention to him the fact we've restarted since he's not here. He's already missed his big blind.
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Well, the case of the missing Englishman has livened things up on the feature table as everyone has gotten more aggressive given the extra dead money.
Jeffrey Hakim opened to 120,000 but folded when Joseph El Khoury reraised behind him. Then in the very next hand, Noel Gaens opened to 120,000 and folded when Walid Bou Habib did exactly the same thing.
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
On the six-handed outer table, [Removed:4] picked up a couple of pots early after play resumed, then a hand arose in which Glen Cymbaluk opened for 125,000 from under the gun and got three callers in Cyril Andre (button), [Removed:4] (small blind), and Robert Romeo (big blind), creating a pot of 530,000.
The flop came 
, and when checked to Cymbaluk pushed all in with his stack of about 1.8 million, and his three opponents quickly stepped aside.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,420,000
340,000
|
340,000 |
|
2,320,000
470,000
|
470,000 |
|
1,450,000
-450,000
|
-450,000 |
|
1,380,000 |
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
"Somebody told me the dinner break was 75 minutes," claimed James Mitchell as he sat down at the feature table, promptly moving all in from the button in the first hand he could play.
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Short-stacked Pascal Aznar made his stand when he moved in over the top of a Walid Bou Habib raise only to be snap-called.
Aznar: 
Habib: 
The flop came 
"I had 6-3," quipped Jeffrey Hakim, before the 
on the turn gave Habib a full house. Aznar couldn't hit either hole card on the 
river and he departed leaving 12 players left.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,740,000
855,000
|
855,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Having finally gotten to his seat after the dinner break, James Mitchell continued to look for ways to improve his short stack by open-raising all in for 765,000 (a little over 12 big blinds). Franck Kalfon then called all in from the button for for 465,000, and the blinds let their hands go.
Mitchell had 
and Kalfon 
, and when the flop came 
Mitchell had taken the lead, leaving Kalfon hoping for a saving seven or a nine for a straight. The turn brought the , and Kalfon was down to his last card.
Then came the river... the 
! A short burst of noise came from the Kalfon's supporters on the rail as the Frenchman doubled up to survive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,050,000
345,000
|
345,000 |
|
300,000
-585,000
|
-585,000 |
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Noel Gaens opened to 200,000 from the cutoff and James Mitchell was all in from the small blind for 225,000. Jeffrey Hakim moved out of the way and Gaens quickly called the rest.
Gaens:
Mitchell:
The flop came 
, "Seven of spades?" asked Mitchell hopefully.
The turn was the and now Mitchell picked up some chop outs in the form of deuces and tens. The river though was the and James Mitchell, the last remaining Englishman, was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,400,000
320,000
|
320,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 28
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Following a Noel Gaens button-open for 125,000, Walid Bou Habib reraised to 385,000 from the small blind, then watched as Jeffrey Hakim shoved all in over the top for 1,815,000 total.
Gaens spent little time before folding, but Habib considered for a good while before finally letting go of his hand. Hakim offered to show his hand — 
— then raked the chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,375,000
585,000
|
585,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
2,200,000
-540,000
|
-540,000 |
|
|
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