Damien Lhommeau opened to 2,500 from the button and called the three-bet of Remi Castaignon to 5,800, witnessing a heads-up flop of . A continuation bet by Castaignon was called and Lhommeau then raised the turn from 12,800 to 40,000 with only little behind to commit himself.
Castaignon shoved with and Lhommeau was drawing dead with . The river didn't matter anymore and one of the three remaining EPT Deauville champions is suddenly among the biggest stacks in the room. Other notables that busted were Ihar Soika and Erwann Pecheux.
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The completed board read and Bart Lybaert checked over to PokerStars Team Online Pro Vicente Delgado on the button. Delgado reached for chips and cut out a river bet of 10,400.
Lybaert went into the tank for some time before moving forward a call. Delgado tabled for top pair with top kicker. This was enough to win the pot as Lybaert tossed his cards into the muck. Delgado pulled the pot and now has about 65,000 to his name.
Jake Cody was moved over to table 9 and just squeezed a raise to 2,200 and a call, making a three-bet to 7,000. Both opponents checked to the EPT champion and the flop got checked through. Cody was given the opportunity to make a delayed continuation bet on the and did just that to take down the pot with a bet of 7,500.
One table over, Martins Adeniya spotted his friend and came over for a quick check. Adeniya has almost doubled up his stack already.
Evangelos Tsaris raised to 2,200 and Jean Pierre Didier made it 5,100 to go before the Greek four-bet to 16,500. Didier pushed and was snap-called by Tsaris with . Didier was in desperate shape with and the board ran out .
Didier was all in with his short stack one hand later and got a lucky chop with against the of Roman Korenev.
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After a flop of , things escalated between Thomas Butzhammer and Ludovic Geilich. The Scotsman check-raised from 2,000 to 5,600 and then pushed with the superior stack after Butzhammer had made it 11,000 to go. Butzhammer called with pocket queens and Geilich couldn't get there with his monster draw of .
Victoria Coren-Mitchell opened on the button for 1,700 and got a fold from the small blind but Dimitar Danchev in the big blind wasn’t going to give up and decided to see a flop.
That flop was . Both players checked and on the turn card a check from Danchev saw Coren-Mitchell flick out a 2,000 bet. That got the job done.
Rui Ferreira had opened the action and Ludovic Geilich had called in position. On a flop of Ferreira continued for 2,100 and Geilich gave it some thought before placing out the call.
The turn card was the which didn’t slow Ferreira down as he bet 4,400. Another slight pause from Geilich before he raised him to 9,600. Ferreira threw in the towel and Geilich collected a few more chips.
From a low of 5,000 yesterday Geilich is back in the hunt.
. A continuation bet by Castaignon was called and Lhommeau then raised the 
turn from 12,800 to 40,000 with only little behind to commit himself.
and Lhommeau was drawing dead with 
. The river didn't matter anymore and one of the three remaining EPT Deauville champions is suddenly among the biggest stacks in the room. Other notables that busted were Ihar Soika and Erwann Pecheux.
and Bart Lybaert checked over to PokerStars Team Online Pro Vicente Delgado on the button. Delgado reached for chips and cut out a river bet of 10,400.
for top pair with top kicker. This was enough to win the pot as Lybaert tossed his cards into the muck. Delgado pulled the pot and now has about 65,000 to his name.
and did just that to take down the pot with a bet of 7,500.
. Didier was in desperate shape with 
and the board ran out 
against the 
of Roman Korenev.
, things escalated between Thomas Butzhammer and Ludovic Geilich. The Scotsman check-raised from 2,000 to 5,600 and then pushed with the superior stack after Butzhammer had made it 11,000 to go. Butzhammer called with pocket queens and Geilich couldn't get there with his monster draw of 
.
. Both players checked and on the turn card 
a check from Danchev saw Coren-Mitchell flick out a 2,000 bet. That got the job done.
Ferreira continued for 2,100 and Geilich gave it some thought before placing out the call.
