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Within five minutes, four players were sent to the rail: Axel Bambadjian, Jean Michel Ploch, Olivier Theuillon and Pavlos Xanthopoulos. The screens show 220 out of 229 players remaining and right now it seems unlikely that a new record in terms of participation will be set here in Cannes.
Within a matter of five minutes, two players busted over on table seven to create some big stacks in Giuseppe Leone and Jan Wolfgarten. The first hand saw a raise to 700 and two calls including Leone in the blinds and he check-raised the flop to 4,500. Only Omer Acar stuck around and then shoved the turn for around 25,000 with the as per the Frenchman.
Leone tank-called with the for two pair and his opponent had turned the straight with . The river gifted Leone a full house.
Shortly after, a raising war broke out between Wolfgarten and Henrik Jeppsson. The latter ended up calling a five-bet shove for his last 18,000 chips with the and the Swede immediately stood up with "nice hand" as soon as he spotted the of his opponent.
On a three-way flop of , the action was checked to Szymon Bujok and he led for 2,250 from the button. Tommy Westerlund called and then David Ozman squeezed to 6,000. Bujok tank-folded before Westerlund jammed for 21,450 in total.
Ozman took a long time before making up his mind and even called time on himself to speed up the process. His table talk brought no further info and the Swede mucked the .
A very enthusiastic Ben Soussan explained the elimination of Frans Welles, after all the chips went to him and he actually called himself the fish with a big grin on the face. Preflop there was a raise to 750 and a call before Soussan squeezed to 3,000. Three opponents called to set up an ace-high flop with two diamonds.
Only Welles and Soussan stayed in for 6,000 each before the turn saw the shove of Welles for 13,000 with . Soussan looked him up with the and sure enough a seven popped up on the river.
Over on table 14, a three-way river of a board had been reached and David Ozman checked out of the blinds. The third player in the hand bet 1,200 and Paul Valkenburg called with his short stack while Ozman folded. The opponent mucked his cards as well and the pot was shipped to the Dutchman, though Ozman insisted that the muck and no show of cards by Valkenburg was not correct.
However, no showdown was needed in the case of a fold on purpose and floor cleared up the situation quickly.
The screens currently show 218 entries for the second starting day, of which 216 still have chips, and this has bumped the overall field of the third ever Unibet Open in Cannes to 400 entries in total. The late registration is open for another two hours and the break, thus the final number is not known yet.
Ronni Borg, not to be mistaken with the cybernetic species that tends to assimilate their opponents in a popular sci fi series and movie series, is the second player out. The stack of the Dane vanished just before the end of the previous level, but hism media ID only showed up in the system during the break.