A couple of hands followed a similar pattern a moment ago on two adjacent tables. The first involved button Eric Sadoun raising and getting repopped by small blind Thomas Nielsen (to 7,200). He made the call and they saw a flop of . Nielsen bet out 9k and got a quick raise from Sadoun which instantly ended his storming of Button Castle.
Over to table Jorgensen and he'd gotten to the flop vs. small blind Chuc Hoang. It stood and Hoang bet out 8k. Button Jorgensen thought for a moment and made it 22k. Hoang thought for a longer moment and then passed.
The bust-outs are fast and furious here at the 2010 WPT Paris, and there are certainly still a large number of names in the chip counts that have busted. We're doing our best to sort out who has hit the rail, and who is still hanging on. You can, however breathe easy knowing that the top 10-20 stacks are constantly being updated and monitored.
Antoine Amourette has good reason to love hearts - they just won him a 280k pot bringing his stack up close to the stratosphere, over 400k (and still stacking). A monstrous pot developed after there was a button threebet preflop from Jerome Zerbib preflop and two players, Amourette one of them, made the call.
Already a chunky pot, the flop came and both players checked to Zerbib who pushed in his entire stock of yellow 1k chips (about 25k). The third flop-reacher reached no further, and it was back to Amourette, who went into one of his trademark thinks. Like we've said before, the outcome of these dwell spells is very tough to predict, and while Zerbib leaned back in his chair looking comfortable Amourette looked like he had a tough one here...
Eventually he slid out a tower of 5k chips, over 120k, and immediately Zerbib announced, "Tapis!" getting his stack over the line. On their backs...
Zerbib showed and that he wasn't three-betting with rubbish on the button.
Amourette showed and that the first caller might have been an enticement preflop.
Turn... River... - no filling up for Zerbib this time and he bowed out gracefully, giving his opponent a commanding chip lead in the process.
Almira Skripchenko just came over to excitedly tell us that she just bluffed Stefan Mattsson off a pot. Calling his raise with she led out on a with two spades, before both checked a blank turn. The river was a and Skripchenko fired out again, getting Mattsson to muck before proudly showing her bluff.
Surinder Sunar was all-in and despite getting generous odds of better than 2-1, the other player in the hand was tanking for several minutes before Stuart Rutter put the clock on him. Finally he called with , far behind Sunar's but the board came and Sunar, who won the WPT here a few years ago, was eliminated as a result.
Recent addition to Kevin Eyster's left Iulian Iacob is proving troublesome for the young player. When he flat called a 2,700 preflop raise in the cutoff, Iacob on the button made it 9,500. The initial raiser passed, but Eyster counted out a number of 5k chips and then threw them in: 24,300 the bet now. Iacob, taking his time expressionlessly as per usual, threading his (larger) stack of 5k chips, surprised the table with a 5bet to 59,500. Too rich for his taste, Eyster gave up on it, probably wishing Iacob had just stayed on his starting table.
. Nielsen bet out 9k and got a quick raise from Sadoun which instantly ended his storming of Button Castle.
and Hoang bet out 8k. Button Jorgensen thought for a moment and made it 22k. Hoang thought for a longer moment and then passed.
and both players checked to Zerbib who pushed in his entire stock of yellow 1k chips (about 25k). The third flop-reacher reached no further, and it was back to Amourette, who went into one of his trademark thinks. Like we've said before, the outcome of these dwell spells is very tough to predict, and while Zerbib leaned back in his chair looking comfortable Amourette looked like he had a tough one here...
and that he wasn't three-betting with rubbish on the button.
and that the first caller might have been an enticement preflop.
River... 
- no filling up for Zerbib this time and he bowed out gracefully, giving his opponent a commanding chip lead in the process.
she led out on a 
with two spades, before both checked a blank turn. The river was a 
and Skripchenko fired out again, getting Mattsson to muck before proudly showing her bluff.
but the board came 
and Sunar, who won the WPT here a few years ago, was eliminated as a result.
