From the cutoff seat, Michael Mizrachi put in a raise holding . Two players folded, and Stephane Bazin looked down at and opted to re-raise, putting Mizrachi to a decision for all of his chips. Grinder, of course, made the call and held the lead through the turn as the board filled out .
Grinder then stepped away from the table and put his hat over his eyes, not wanting to watch the river.
The room erupted when the dealer placed the on the river, making Bazin the winning two pair. Michael follows his older brother Robert out the door in back-to-back Mizrachi eliminations.
Coincidentally, the Mizrachi brothers were also the last remaining Poker Battle Warriors eliminated from the Cannes Main Event.
Guillaume Darcourt has been moving all in at least once per orbit with a significant amount of chips, never getting any action. Finally, in his most recent shove, he got a call from short stack Philippe Narboni in the blind, holding . Darcourt tabled and was off to the races, with his opponent in danger of being eliminated.
The flop was pretty decent for Narboni, coming . The on fourth street ended the hand, as his full house was unbeatable. Darcourt granted a courtesy double up to Narboni, and was knocked down to about 200,000. He would, however, double back up just a few hands later.
We're down to 12 players now as Stephane Bazin has recently eliminated Thierry Crenn up on the feature table.
All of the money went in preflop, Bazin's with pocket aces and Crenn's with pocket jacks.
The flop hit Bazin hard, giving him top set, subsequently leaving Crenn drawing to running jacks.
Amazingly, one of them came on the turn giving Crenn a small glimmer of hope with one card to come, but that card was the and Crenn was sent home in 13th place.
The twelve remaining players are getting anxious to know what the deal is when they get down to ten players. Will they play two tables of five or one full table of ten? The floor staff haven't been able to enlighten them either. They have the 'we'll cross that bridge when we get to it' attitude.
For the second hand in a row, Raul Paez opened with a raise, this time making it 75,000 to play from under the gun. Next to act was Michael Abecassis, and he moved all in for an additional 244,000. Action passed around the table, and Paez made the call, putting his opponent at risk of elimination.
Paez:
Abecassis:
Off to the races. The dealer dealt out the community cards: . Paez failed to catch any of his cards, and he gives the majority of his chips to Abecassis, leaving himself just 95,000 chips to play with.
Guillaume Darcourt has just been eliminated from the tournament by Philippe Narboni.
The hand saw Narboni open the pot with a raise from early position to approximately 90,000. Action then folded around to Darcourt who opted to move all in for a total of about 500,000. All players folded back around to Narboni who made a quick call and tabled a pocket pair of kings; Darcourt turned over .
The community cards came putting a full house on the board, but Narboni's kings gave him a better boat, subsequently putting an abrupt end to Darcourt's Cannes Main Event.
After the hand, Narboni stacked up just over 1.1 million in chips.
Raul Paez was first to act and found a hand good enough to move in for his last 50,000 chips. It was folded round to [Removed:133] who raised his eyebrows and called in the dark.
Paez revealed and Cournut was surprised and glad to see he was ahead with .
The board ran . Cournut paired his three but ace high would've been good enough to win. Paez gets up and leaves to a round of applause.
It's getting late here in Cannes and several of the players are starting to show signs of fatigue. The local time here is 4:22 a.m. and we've been told they're not stopping until they reach the goal of eight.
Phillipe Narboni made it 80,000 to go from the cut-off before Pierre Yves Ayme reraised to 300,000 from the small blind, leaving himself 272,000 back. A conversation then took place between the two in French where it looked as though Ayme was trying to talk Narboni into playing back at him.
Narboni obliged by putting Ayme all in and he called with . Off to the races they went as Narboni tabled .
The board ran for quad jacks! Narboni celebrated with his friends, nearly knocking a few people over in the meantime.
We're now on a small break as the nine players reconvene at one table until we lose one more.