Climbing the ladder and emerging with a stack hitherto unnoticed is Gabriel Nassif, who's on over 65,000. Could have something to do with his post-it note visible behind his chips with instructions. It's big, green, and says simply, "PLAY GOOD."
Thomas Nielsen raised to 1,000 preflop, Antoine Rahal reraised to 4,000 from late position and Lasse Ubostad flat-called from the blinds. Nielsen came along for the ride and the three saw a flop.
Ubostad led out for 6,000 and Nielsen quickly folded. Rahal then raised to 17,000 quickly and Ubostad tanked for several minutes before reraising all-in, it was only another 17,000 more for Rahal but he folded fairly quickly.
After taking that knock earlier with the straight vs. flush hand, Gilbert Diaz has been pushing to double up this level. He's had his stack in twice in the last orbit alone - once pushing in on the river of a board vs. Eric Sadoun (no call) and then tangling with Tyron Krost like so:
Davidi Kitai raised to 750 preflop and picked up Krost on the button and big blind Diaz. On the flop it was checked to Krost who bet 1,500, called by Diaz alone. The popped up on the turn, prompting another check to Krost, a bet of 3,300 and then a swift move-in from Diaz. Krost went into that face-covering praying position often taken up by poker players faced with tough decisions and paused, but eventually decided the 6,750 more was too much. Another pot for Diaz.
Elie Marciano has been well and truly knocked out of this tournament. The river of a board was checked down with a substantial pot already having been built by Marciano and Osama Chaar.
Chaar turned over and Marciano looked completely shell-shocked and stood up refusing to turn over or muck his cards.
Finally after about a minute, Stuart Rutter said, "Come on, muck your hand..."
Marciano complained saying he needed to check his cards, which he then did not do. Finally he folded, leaving himself super-short.
Marciano's remaining chips went in with against Paul Testud's and Casey Kastle's but a meant the two Big Slicks' would chop the pot up and Maricano's adventure was over.
The official numbers are in, and with 247 total runners our prizepool here at the 2010 WPT Paris is whopping €2,347,797.
Twenty-seven players will score a payday here at the Aviation Club de France with the smallest pay-out being €11,740. A final nine finish earns players at least €58,695, and the winner will walk away with a healthy €633,902 score.
Kimmo Kurko is chastising himself a little, he just paid off an 8,200 bet on the river of a board against Ilan Rouah but couldn't beat the latter when he was shown a very impressive
Having lost around 5k in a hand with vs. on a board a short while previously, Alan Goehring just doubled back to pretty much exactly the 30k starting stack with . I am guessing this went in on the flop, but even with the turn and river coming he still won the hand and picked up 15,025 x 2.
Elsewhere a few new big stacks have been spotted climbing skyward:
Fares Bdiri - 60,000
Per Mattsson - 76,000
Ilan Boujenah - 104,000
Elsewhere tables are losing the occasional dinner-break sprinter and in less than a minute there will be a 90 minute food hiatus.
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