Achour Picks Off Tannouri

Shuang Luo, who finished runner-up in the High Roller last night, entered the field at the break and immediately got involved in a pot as she called a 2,500 raise from Maher Achour.

Issam Tannouri then three-bet to 7,000 on the button and both players called. The flop came K♦5♣3♥ and Tannouri continued for 7,200. Achour and Luo both called again and the 2♦ fell on the turn.

The river was the 9♣ and Tannouri reached into the bottom of his stack and tossed two 25,000 chips in the middle for a bet of 50,000. Achour tanked for more than two minutes until he called, while Luo got out of the way.

"Ace high," Tannouri said as he mucked the A♦. Achour showed K♠J♠ as he took the big pot, climbing above 300,000.

"Good call, sir," Tannouri told him.

Simone Andrian, who won the Warm Up event earlier in this festival, also entered at the break.