With the elimination of Jose Pimentel Quintas on the feature table, Day 2 has now come to a close at 18 players.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for updated chip counts and a recap of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted |
Nassim Rais opened to 400,000 under the gun, and Hermes Prencipe got his last 625,000 into the middle from the button.
Chip leader Tristan Vernay three-bet to 950,000 from the small blind, and Rais got out of the way.
Hermes Prencipe: Q♣J♠ 
Tristan Vernay: A♥3♠
Prencipe needed some help, but the ace was in the window on the A♣7♥5♣ flop, and there was no unlikely escape on the 6♣K♠ turn and river.
The river led to some more celebrations from Vernay, who now had a rail of supporters watching.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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12,250,000
2,100,000
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2,100,000 |
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11,000,000
3,750,000
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3,750,000 |
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Busted | |
Florian Russo-Mangione opened to 400,000 under the gun, and was met with a three-bet jam from Paul Bourdon in the small blind for around 2,500,000.
Julien Gadanho was in the big blind, and he thought it through for a while, and made the call, prompting Russo-Mangione to get out of the way.
Paul Bourdon: A♣10♣
Julien Gadanho: A♥J♥
Gadanho had Bourdon dominated, and Bourbon was drawing dead by the turn after Gadanho hit a jack on the 4♦2♦2♥J♣K♦ runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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10,200,000
6,100,000
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6,100,000 |
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6,310,000
635,000
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635,000 |
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Busted |
A shout of celebration went up from Table 78, and Tristan Vernay was walking away from the table pumping his fists.
All the money went in on the turn against Pavel Ustinov, who put around 2,100,000 in.
Vernay had A♥A♦ and Ustinov J♠10♥, with the board reading Q♠9♥7♠5♥, Ustinov on an up and down versus Vernay's overpair.
The 7♥ river was a brick, much to Vernay's delight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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14,350,000
3,050,000
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3,050,000 |
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Busted | |
Amadou Gassama opened to 350,000 from the cutoff and David Kessas three-bet jammed for around 1,600,000 from the big blind. Gassama's calling chips were almost into the middle before Kessas'.
David Kessas: A♦J♣
Amadou Gassama: K♥K♠
Kessas had run into a monster, and there was no escape on the 8♥5♦4♣6♣J♦ runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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8,700,000
2,500,000
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2,500,000 |
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Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Romain Quarrit was getting up out of his chair, and his stack was being passed to Tristan Vernay, after Vernay's A♥7♦ came off best against Quarrit's A♦6♥ on a board of J♣9♣10♦7♥10♣.
A huge pot for Vernay, who moves over the ten million mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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11,300,000
8,900,000
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8,900,000 |
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Busted | |
Dylan Lauret was left with 60,000 behind after paying the big blind and ante. Gus Hansen opened to 285,000 from the cutoff, and David Kessas called in the small blind.
After some stalling to try to get the pay jump, Lauret stuck the rest of his stack in the middle.
With a 40,000 side pot in play, Kessas quickly check-folded to a bet of 155,000 from Hansen on the K♠5♠3♣ flop.
Dylan Lauret: 9♦2♣
Gus Hansen: Q♠J♦
Lauret had woken up with trash, but was still live against The Great Dane. Any hope was ended by the Q♦ turn however, the 3♥ river completing the board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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7,410,000
5,150,000
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5,150,000 |
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2,575,000
1,500,000
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1,500,000 |
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Busted | |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
