Action folded round to Artur Koren in the small blind who raised to 5,800. Kevin MacPhee was in the big blind and he elected to call.
The flop was and Koren check-called a 4,400 bet from MacPhee. The hit the turn and Koren checked. MacPhee had a look back at his hole cards, seemingly liked what he saw, and bet 12,200.
It was Koren’s turn to look back at his hand and he didn’t like it so much. In the muck they went.
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Ognjen Sekularac and Jimmy Vasseur tangled preflop and Sekularac was the player at risk with the . Vasseur had and remained with only 8,000 chips after a board of . The next hand these chips vanished after he was unable to improve with .
Marcin Horecki and Olivier Douce were all in with Douce at risk as another player decided what to do. As the clock was called and we arrived he mucked his hand before the floor could begin a countdown.
Douce showed and Horecki .
Despite calling for that elusive ace it wouldn’t appear for Douce and a final board of saw his chips shipped to Horeki.
Amongst them PokerStars Team Pro Julien Brécard and German player Artur Koren. Details of their bust outs are unfortunately not in our possession at the moment.
Upon returning to the tournament area, Luca Moschitta walked towards us and confirmed his elimination after running his short stack with pocket nines into pocket aces.
Emil Ekvardt is also on the rail. He was all in and at risk preflop with against the of Miroslav Alilovic. There was no help on a board of and Alilovic integrated the chips of his table neighbor into his own stack.
Dimitar Danchev opened for 5,000 and called Dany Parlafes big blind shove for (what we thought was just under) 45,000. Danchev was the proud owner of while Parlafes had .
Danchev was just about dead on the flop of . The on the turn made Danchev officially drawing dead and the was there just to make things official.
Alexandre Reard opened under the gun and Robert Schulz went for a three-bet. He would soon throw his cards away in annoyance though as first Francois Evard four-bet from the small blind and then Reard moved all in. Evard made the call.
Evard had and Reard .
The cards ran out and a double up for Reard saw Evard reduced to just over 20,000.
When Marton Czuczor opened the next pot for 6,000 and Evard shoved it looked like he felt priced in and called with . Evard tabled and he watched as he tried to dodge Czuczor’s cards on a final board of . He did to double up.
Lucien Cohen was eliminated on the feature table with pocket sixes versus pocket jacks, which should only leave Remi Castaignon as last remaining EPT Deauville champion in today's field.
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hit the turn and Koren checked. MacPhee had a look back at his hole cards, seemingly liked what he saw, and bet 12,200.
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saw his chips shipped to Horeki.
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of Miroslav Alilovic. There was no help on a board of 
and Alilovic integrated the chips of his table neighbor into his own stack.
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and he watched as he tried to dodge Czuczor’s cards on a final board of 
