One of the first big pots we've seen Patrick Bruel lose just went towards Antoine Amourette, reinforcing his somewhat dented stack. There was over 100k in the pot already as I caught the action on the turn with Amourette betting out 70k on a board. Button Bruel made the call after a good long think. The river was the . Amourette is nothing if not deliberate and slow in his actions - it's like every motion, the stacking, the counting, the staring, is done in some viscous substance. It took him a while to bet 120k on the river, and even longer for Bruel to call. Amourette showed the and reascends to 880k while Bruel is down to 400 or so.
It's been a tough last couple of hands for Patrick Bruel, first a board of went check-check all the way to the river where Mattern fired 65,000 and Bruel gave it up with a sigh.
Couple of hands later and Bruel opened to 18,000. Mattern called in position but then Antoine Amourette repopped it to 70,000 before promptly looking like he'd fallen asleep. He did such a good job the tournament came over and gave him several prods before Amourette got out of his fetal-esque position.
Bruel thought for a couple of minutes before folding, Mattern quickly folded behind him.
Arnaud Mattern somehow won a pot against Guenni after raising under the gun to 19k with . Big blind Mickael Guenni made the call. On the flop it went check-check, same on the turn and on the river Mattern bet 20k. He was not only called, his hand was good...
No luck for Andrew Teng after the break, he pushed with in the small blind but found Quinn Sivage in the big blind with which stayed good after a board.
Now with a big stack, Arnaud Mattern has upped his aggression considerably, he's just been slowed down though when Antoine Amourette reraised in the small blind to about 55,000 after Mattern had made it 19,000 on the button.
Mattern folded quicker than an origami grandmaster.
Fabrice Touil on the button had called an earlier raise to 20k before finding Jimmy Ostensson in the big blind upping it to 58k. The first player folded but Touil made the call. On the flop of Ostensson bet out 66k, and Touil called. The turn saw 125k bet out by Ostensson, and this time it took much longer for Touil to make a decision. At one point he had the stack counted out and waiting, but he decided to pass.
"Show the bluff - it's very good for the game!" requested Theo Jorgensen, adding, "I'll give you 10k in chips if you show the bluff." He wasn't biting, however, and slid his hand back facedown.
Mickael Guenni is now directly to Arnaud Mattern's right, and it folds round fairly often to give them the same kind of blind-on-blind tussles regularly noted with Mattern earlier. At the start of the day it was Quinn Sivage who got the Mattern threebet treatment, and now Guenni found his 19k raise raised to 58k. This time Guenni counted out 169k, however, and pushed it slowly over the line, prompting a fairly quick fold from Mattern.
After a valiant struggle back to 100k, Benzimra found a decent looking to shove preflop on the button over the top of Antoine Amourette's raise to 15k. Aittaleb in the big blind thought for a while, but passed, then congratulated himself on his excellent pass out loud as Amourette instacalled with his ! Tough luck for Benzimra, whose tournament draws to an end just as the second break commences.
board. Button Bruel made the call after a good long think. The river was the 
. Amourette is nothing if not deliberate and slow in his actions - it's like every motion, the stacking, the counting, the staring, is done in some viscous substance. It took him a while to bet 120k on the river, and even longer for Bruel to call. Amourette showed the 
and reascends to 880k while Bruel is down to 400 or so.
went check-check all the way to the river where Mattern fired 65,000 and Bruel gave it up with a sigh.
flop it went check-check, same on the 
turn and on the 
in the small blind but found Quinn Sivage in the big blind with 
which stayed good after a 
board.
saw 125k bet out by Ostensson, and this time it took much longer for Touil to make a decision. At one point he had the stack counted out and waiting, but he decided to pass.
to shove preflop on the button over the top of Antoine Amourette's raise to 15k. Aittaleb in the big blind thought for a while, but passed, then congratulated himself on his excellent pass out loud as Amourette instacalled with his 
