Alexey Domorochenkov had the remainder of his less than 30,000 chips stack in with the and got called by Julien Pecheur, holding the . After a flop of , most players will know exactly that the American Airlines get cracked most of the time and sure enough the dealer burned and turned the .
The river was already meaningless and Pecheur is one of several players around the 200k mark. Mosjin El Yakoubi has hit the rail, too.
Just when walking through the tournament area, we noticed an interesting hand from the feature table from the very last level still. It was a four-way flop of and Florian Ravier mucked his to a bet of 5,000 by Reza Doomun. Just Olivier Jach stuck around and called another bet worth 6,500 on the turn.
The river saw Doomun check-call all in for his last 17 big blinds with the only to see Jach flip over for bottom set.
After a preflop three-bet and a cbet on the flop, Franck Lini pushed all in after the turn with and Alan Brown called for his last 35,900 with the . The river was a blank and Brown stacked up the chips.
Straight back from the break, four players busted to reduce the field to the last 96 for Day 1b. Among them were Alexandre Reard and Aleksandr Lebedev.
The latter shoved his short stack from the cutoff with the and was called by Julien pecheur and Philip Fjaestad in the blinds. Pecheur bet a jack-high flop and was called by Fjaestad before a second barrel on a blank turn isolated successfully. Pecheur held the for top pair top kicker and no king showed up anymore.
The screens have been adjusted and show 101 players left, who pretty much all quickly head out of the tournament area. Why is that? Because they are on a 15-minute break. Back soon for the last two levels of tonight.
A few minutes prior to the end of the level, Valerie Pignot rushed out of the tournament area and the board on table 4 was still laying there just after the showdown had ended. Daniel Clifford now has all her chips after spiking middle set with on the flop.
Pignot was putting her hopes on for the flush draw and gutshot, however the turn and river both bricked.
One hand after the elimination of Sebastien Boyard, Arkadiusz Olszowy opened to 4,000 and was called by Jeremy Palvini in the small blind. The Frenchman checked and Olszowy moved all in. That surprised Palvini and he asked the dealer for a count, still confused as to what was going on.
it was 47,400 to call and Palvini spent a good five minutes in the think tank before making the call. As soon as Olszowy had turned over his , the Frenchman threw his with disgust to the middle of the table. Both the turn and the river bricked, halving Palvini's stack.
Bogdan Petru Petrascu opened to 2,500 and the action reached Szymon Bujok in the big blind, the Pole made the call. On the flop and the turn both players checked. Bujok also checked the river and then faced a bet worth 10,000 by Petrascu while the pot was just 7,000.
Bujok tank-called and then shook his head when he got shown . Both players have one countryman at the table: Mateusz Syc (Poland) and Cristian Cirtog (Romania).
The self destruction of [Removed:247] is complete. The Frenchman was up to more than 250,000 at peak time according to the only two players that remained from the initial table line up. Down to around 55,000 chips he lost almost all of it by chasing another draw on a flop with the and Philip Fjaestad snap-called with to hold up with ace-high.
The remaining chips then went to Julien Pecheur, who is sitting next to the Swede.