Players are going on a 75-minute dinner break. When they return there will be six levels left. According to the tournament clock there are currently 236 players remaining from a starting field of 372.
Tomas Soderstrom raised to 4,000 from the hijack. It folded to Olivier Daubigny in the small blind who took a look at Soderstrom's stack before raising to 11,000. The big blind folded and with the action back on Soderstrom he thought for a moment before moving all in for 38,600. Daubigny called.
Olivier Daubigny:
Tomas Soderstrom:
Soderstrom had woken up with Aces and they held on the . The dealer deal the river and it flicked facedown, increasing the sweat of the four-card flush on the board. When it turned up as a brick, both Soderstrom and his neighbour let out a laugh and the Swede counted out his stack for the double up.
Defending champion Antonin Teisseire has been eliminated. We didn't get the hand but we saw him gesturing wildly to a friend still seated in the tournament. Sonny Franco and Mike D'inca have both chipped up.
There is around 25 minutes left before late registration and re-entry close for the day, so the pace of eliminations has increased, perhaps with some players looking to try their hand at running up a 20 big blind stack in the last three levels of the day.
There is also a large satellite to the Main Event running in one corner of the venue, with players looking to satellite into Day 1B of the Main Event which gets underway at 12 p.m. local time tomorrow.
Davidi Kitai checked to his opponent Romain Pantaleon who bet 11,000. Kitai then raised all in for over 100,000. Pantaleon called.
