Dieter van Itterbeeck was the initial raiser from under the gun and picked up three callers, heading to the flop . The Belgian made a continuation bet worth 1,900 and Parkas Somer called. Maksym Lavrov then raised to 6,000 with 10,000 behind and that enforced folds from table big stack Tom Dingenen, van Itterbeeck and Somer.
While Bart Lybaert just arrived one table over, Markus Heikkila was involved in a raising war with his table neighbor Christophe Mertens. Heikkila had squeezed to 2,100 and then Mertens four-bet to 5,200 to eventually enforce a fold from the Swede. Heikkila had made a deep run in Cannes but ultimately missed out on the money.
Oanh Bui raised from the button and Niels de Wijs three-bet to get a call from Bui. On the flop , de Wijs check-called a bet of 2,000 and did so again for 3,800 on the turn.
The came on the river and de Wijs now led for 9,500. Bui raised to 22,000 with about 5,000 chips behind and de Wijs moved all in, claiming he had the nuts with ace-ten of hearts. Bui eventually called it off and was indeed shown the by her opponent to flip over the inferior .
In a four-way pot, Dieter van Itterbeeck flopped bottom set on and turned quads with another . A appeared on the river and the 7,000-bet of the Belgian was not called, though he still showed the cards. The Belgian lost some chips early on and recovered most of the losses with the hand, a call would have been even sweeter though.