€8,500 Cannes Main Event Day 1a | 2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

09-03-2008 22:30 UTC+3

Cards are Back in the Air

MarcC

The players have returned from break -- 167 of them in all - and play has resumed.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

09-03-2008 21:14 UTC+3

After four levels of intense poker action, the rumbles of the hungry poker players' stomachs can be heard around the room. Time for them to tuck into the buffet dinner provided.

Play will resume in 60 minutes.

09-03-2008 21:08 UTC+3

Patience Didn't Pay Off

MarcC

Fabrice Soulier had been nursing different levels of a short stack for a long while now but after a very patient wait he finally found a spot to to make his move. Under the gun he raised to 625 leaving him just 100 behind. Jason Mercier was sitting in the next seat and gave him protection by reraising to 1,550.

Everyone else folded and Soulier threw in his final chip and tabled {A-Diamonds}

. He was dominated by Mercier's {A-Clubs}

.

All the way to the river we went {9-Hearts}

. The king on the flop sealed the deal and the popular Frenchman congratulated Mercier and made his exit.

Tags: Fabrice Soulier Jason Mercier

09-03-2008 21:06 UTC+3

Quadzilla

[user38449]

Cedric Torrent is all smiles after winning a recent pot in which he flopped quad aces. Fortunately for Torrent, an opponent held pocket queens and spiked a third on the turn giving him queens full. Needless to say, all of the chips went into the middle and Cedric was able to get back up to 20,000 in chips with the win.

Tags: Cedric Torrent

09-03-2008 21:01 UTC+3

Trips Flushed on the River

[user66118]

Jason Mercier opened the action with a button raise to 575. The big blind called, and the two men saw the flop bring {7-Clubs}

. Both players checked.

The turn was the {3-Spades}

. Check to Mercier, who bet out 800. His opponent made the call.

Fifth street came the {K-Spades}

. Action was again passed to the bettor, and Mercier put out 1,600 chips. Rather quickly, his opponent check-raised, apparently to 3,500. Mercier was taken aback, and asked, "You have the flush?" as he made the call. The other player did indeed turn over a flush, tabling {7-Spades}

in a hand that just kept improving. Mercier claimed that he had {A-?}

and asked with a smirk, "How do I not go broke there?" He is down just under 30,000 chips now.

09-03-2008 20:51 UTC+3

Sick Call

MarcC

Gus Hansen made a raise from late position and found a caller in the shape of the big blind before the flop came down {6-Clubs}

.

Gus continued his aggression with a 650 bet once it was checked to him and the big blind player called so the dealer brought the {Q-Hearts}

on the turn.

They both checked so we headed straight to the river {7-Hearts}

. The big blind then surprised everybody by moving all in for 16,975, a massive over bet.

Hansen went into the tank, contorting his face as he worked through whether or not to call. "I'm just so curious, can I forgive myself for folding?" commentated Hansen.

He continued with "I wish he you had a little less," and then made the call. His opponent showed {9-Clubs}

for just a pair of nines, but the pot and the applause went to Hansen as he tabled the winning {A-Hearts}

for a pair of queens.

Hansen soaring now on 62,000.

Tags: Gus Hansen

09-03-2008 20:34 UTC+3

Le Corre Finishes Off Minieri

[user38449]

After having crippled Dario Minieri approximately an hour earlier, Fabrice Le Corre has just taken the last of the young Italian's chips in a hand that saw Minieri three-barrel bluff his way to elimination.

Minieri fired a bet on every street as the board filled out {Q-?}

and Le Corre check-called him the whole way. Action reached its zenith at the river when Minieri shoved all in holding {K-?}

and Le Corre made the call, tabling a pocket pair of nines for a rivered full house.

Tags: Dario Minieri

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

09-03-2008 20:07 UTC+3

New Chip Leader

[user38449]

Pierre Eugene Charil has just taken over the chip lead in commanding fashion after winning a monstrous pot on the strength of a pocket pair of aces, which turned into the nut flush by the river. He now has a whopping 84,000 in chips.

Tags: Pierre Eugene Charil