2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes
€8,500 Cannes Main Event
Day: 3
Robert Mizrachi Moves into the Chip Lead
On a board showing , the eldest Mizrachi brother check-called a 25,000 bet from Nkoa. The river brought the and Mizrachi check-called another Nkoa bet, this time for 100,000.
At the showdown, Nkoa tabled a pocket pair of eights and was one-upped by Mizrachi who revealed pocket tens.
The pot hoisted Robert past Patrice Sitbon into the overall tournament chip lead with 890,000.
Double-Ups! Get Your Double-Ups!
Korchia tables his , and it's the leading hand versus Sitbon's . The turn and river fail to find Sitbon, coming and respectively. Sitbon grants another double up, and finds himself bleeding chips here in the early going. He has fallen all the way back into the 300,000-chip range after starting the day as the commanding chip leader.
Stephane Liger Eliminated in 39th Place ($15,693)
Much to his chagrin, the board runs out dry for him, coming , and sending Stephane Liger to the cashier's desk early to collect his 39th place money.
One of the players mixed up in the preflop battle told us he folded pocket tens.
Salim Metina Eliminated in 40th Place ($15,693)
The board blanked out king-high and Patryk's ace-queen high was good enough to take down the pot.
Metina will take home $15,693 in prize money for his efforts.
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 600
Niclas Dymling Eliminated in 41st Place ($15,693)
Short-stacked, Dymling moved all in over the top of a preflop raise made by Sitbon holding . Sitbon made the call and tabled .
The appeared in the door and Dymling conceded defeat with a shrug of his shoulders and watched the rest of the board blank out . Dymling will take home $15,693 for his efforts.
Case of the Missing Player?
We'll pass on the name as soon as it's made available to us.
It's Getting Hot in Here
The players seem to be right on the edge of comfort, fanning themselves with anything they can find and wiping the sweat off their brows. It remains to be seen if the less-than-ideal temperature affects play at all.
An Ace, Bro
Patryk looks at the dealer and asks him, "You have an ace, bro?" Sure enough, the dealer obliges and spreads out on the flop, pushing Hildbranski into the lead. Even better, fourth street is the , locking up the pot and doubling the young player up to about 475,000. "Thank you, mister dealer," he says as he begins to re-stack his chips.
Sitbon, meanwhile, has taken two big hits in the last five minutes, and he has fallen back under the half-million mark.