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Just now Arnaud Esquevin tried his hand at bluffing off Thomas Nielsen but when he turned his hand over (
on a 
board) it was because Nielsen had called his 52k bet on the river with 
, just like he'd called the 34,500 on the turn.
They're all at it now! Stuart Rutter got rid of Theo Jorgensen (blind vs. blind) in a small pot with a 10k bet on the turn, with the board all low and including a 
, then showed him the 
.
Jorgensen then won a much larger (around 80k) pot from Steven van Zadelhoff. It had reached the turn when I saw van Zadelhoff check the 
. Jorgensen calmly counted out 60k and made the bet which caused the fold which added even more chips to his growing stack. He then showed the table and announced his plan for the forthcoming period: "I will not lay down any hand to a re-raise."
The chip counts from tables 5 and 6 while we're still on the bubble.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
450,000 | -40,000 |
|
400,000 | -160,000 |
|
|
370,000 | 70,000 |
|
300,000 | -10,000 |
|
235,000 | -65,000 |
|
229,000 | -6,000 |
|
214,000 | 104,000 |
|
|
200,000 | 57,300 |
|
185,000 | 134,400 |
|
|
105,000 | 15,000 |
|
91,000 | 54,000 |
|
84,000 | -36,000 |
|
|
63,000 | -7,500 |
|
60,000 | -167,300 |
A preflop raising war saw Jimmy Ostensson make it 10k, Arnaud Mattern on his immediate left up it to 30k, only to find him making it 65k. A micropause later, and Mattern had a big stack of 5ks ready to go over the line, and he slowly moved them forward, saying, "One forty-two." This 142k was the final straw which broke this standoff (one hesitates to use the term pissing contest when there is a prizepool of millions of Euro involved), and Ostensson passed.
Mattern showed him 
.
Nourrendine Aittaleb opened to 7,000 and Patrick Bruel made the call. Antoine Amourette then reraised to 32,000 and the action was passed over to Andrew in the big blind who tanked and had the clock called on him before pushing all-in. The French press and players actually weren't that interested by this after a while since the news report on the TV announced the French football squad for the World Club complete with groans when certain players were announced.
Aittaleb thought for a while before folding, as did Bruel but Amourette made the call with 
and Teng looked mortified as he flipped 
.
But the board came 
and then....
Teng is back up to about 270,000 while Amourette takes the first decent-sized hit to his stack but still has over 300,000.
After the long periods of bubble waiting, the occasional explosive hand reconfigures chip stacks and they need recounting (some take much longer to count at the end, and their owners have more peaceful expressions). Other two tables coming shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
685,000 | 115,000 |
|
428,000 | -22,000 |
|
385,000 | |
|
380,000 | -30,000 |
|
324,000 | -3,500 |
|
300,000 | -100,000 |
|
268,000 | 68,000 |
|
261,000 | 141,000 |
|
|
255,000 | -19,500 |
|
|
210,200 | -31,800 |
|
188,400 | 48,400 |
|
188,000 | 29,700 |
|
|
93,000 | -42,000 |
|
80,000 | -25,600 |
Antony Lellouche just got crippled by Michael Kwiek, the latter had fired 25,000 on the turn of a 
board. Lellouche reraised to 125,000 in effect committing Kwiek who made the call with 
. Lellouche sighed and showed 
for a gutshot and flush draw but the river was the and Lellouche was crippled.
Kwiek - 300,000
Lellouche - 50,000
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Another big pot held the game frozen in the last hand for a good ten minutes. Button Paul Bennazar raised to 8,500, and small blind Antoine Amourette threebet him to 18,500. He made the call, and again when Amourette bet 25k on the 
flop. The turn gave Bennazar more pause for thought, however, as Amourette bet a big enough stack of pink 5k chips to set his opponent in.
The atmosphere on that table is truly chatty and for the most part missing out on the bubble tension, and this decision proved no exception. Amourette chatted to Bennazar, Patrick Bruel chatted to everyone, and Bennazar looked up and addressed the assembled crowd of press and spectators with what must have been a great couple of one-liners (sadly not understood by me) as they all cracked up.
He finally passed, however, and we're still holding on to our 28th finisher.
The dealers of the remaining tables have to stand up at the end of every hand to make sure they're playing hand-for-hand and wait to deal simultaneously. Just now Gabriel Nassif made three other dealers stand for quite a while as this pot dragged on, potentially spelling the end of him...
He'd seen a 
flop with Jimmy Ostensson, and bet out 18k. Ostensson made the call. On the 
turn Nassif checked, and now Ostensson took up the bettor mantle with 25k. A good long think from Nassif before he made the call.
The river was the {4s). Check to Ostensson again, and he asked how many Nassif was playing. When he heard the answer, he bet 215k, enough to set him in.
"I can't call that," said Nassif with a smile, passing. The bubble continues.
