Christophe Meurant is the latest casualty after a three-bet shove from the button. Initial raiser David Abbas wasted little time before calling with the 
and it was the perfect timing, as Meurant had the slightly worse kicker with 
.
Abbas paired his king on the 
flop, but that also gave his opponent a gutshot. The 
turn and 
river were of no help to Meurant and he wished everyone best of luck still: "Bonne continuation."
Szilard Sas was all in for just 57,000 on the feature table with the 
and Ian Simpson looked him up with the 
. The two over cards and even a gutshot on a board of 
failed and the Hungarian was gone.
Joining the action on the 
turn, Franck Link check-raised from 27,000 to what looked like 60,000 out of the big blind and Matyas Csiszar called rather quickly from early position. Then, Lini grabbed his stack of T-5,000 chips and bet 95,000 with not much behind.
Csiszar eventually folded after giving it some thought, it would have been for pretty much half his remaining stack.
Zsombor Gall min-raised from the button and had to call the shove of short stack Paulo Rodrigues for just 32,000 with the 
. The Dutchman held the 
and the board bricked out for an urgently needed double up.
From the button, Kimi Heiskanen shoved all in and was called by Benjamin Westergaard from one seat over, the player in the big blind folded. Heiskanen's 
got there against 
on a board of 
and he is still in it to win it.
New grey T-25,000 chips have been introduced while one player has been eliminated over on the feature table.
Loic Francois just got some value off Nicolay Langfeldt to bump up his stack when his made a backdoor straight and flush on a board of 
.
The screens only now updated and reflected the late eliminations of Jens Hansen and Grzegorz Kowalczyk towards the end of the previous level. Julien Bolimowski on the contrary is up to 362,000 chips and just came over to the media desk to make sure his count is up to date.
Consider that done with this post.
Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
The second break of the day has just started and everyone can enjoy 20 minutes off. Yet another chip race will take place, as the T-500 denominations are no longer needed either. In the first four hours of play, the field has been reduced to 56 hopefuls only out of the 121 that returned to the Casino Barriere Cannes just after lunch time.
Vyacheslav Igin was all in and at risk for 89,500 preflop and received two opponents in Julien Pecheur from the button and Frederic Ayadi in the small blind. Pecheur had them both covered and the best hand in , but Ayadi's and Igin's 
made both a straight on the .
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