Although I missed the action on the threeway flop of , I overheard posthand discussion saying that Andrew Teng had bet out into Jimmy Ostensson and Per Linde, who both called.
The turned saw Teng bet out 70k, and while Ostensson passed, Linde ascertained the stack that Teng was playing (around 150-160k) and then called.
The river was the which looked as blank as a white wall. Teng now checked, and slowly Linde counted out 150k and pushed it over the line. Into the tank with Teng for a big, tournament deciding decision, and when time was finally called on him he announced, "Call," leaving himself just 2 big blinds.
The rest of his chips went sailing over to Linde who showed the .
Arnaud Mattern got into a big pot with Bruno Lopes after both put in 41,000 before a flop was dealt. Another player had opened with Lopes 3-betting to 41,000 and Mattern flat-called this bet with the inital raiser folding.
Both players checked the flop before Lopes also checked the turn. Mattern bet 78,000 and Lopes then check-raised all-in.
Mattern tanked for several minutes, recounting his stack before finally making the call with while Lopes showed . The river favored Mattern coming the . He's up to 900,000.
A catastrophic hand for Christophe Benzimra's stack just saw Patrick Bruel flop a full house with as the cards came . Despite the fact that Benzimra held the big hit came after the turn and river - and - had fallen with caginess all round. At this point Bruel raised a huge tower of pink 5k chips (150k) which may have been intended to set his opponent in, however it left him with 45k when he just called and a chance at rebuilding.
Benzimra then opened shoved for his last 50k or so with , and was called by Patrick Bruel in the big blind who had . The board rolled out and Benzimra now has a little bit of breath back with just over 100,000 in chips.
Christophe Benzimra moved in over the top of a Fabrice Touil raise which had been called in position by Andrew Teng. A further 106k to call proved too much for Touil but Teng, after giving it some consideration, made the call with , to find himself in poor shape vs. Benzimra's . A third Jack hit the flop and the set held comfortably to give him a new lease of tournament life with 245k.
It was folded around to Reynald Zrnjevic in the small blind, who shoved his last 55,000 into the middle with , and was instantly called by Quinn Sivage in the big blind, who held the .
The board was unkind to the short stack, coming out and Reynald Zrnjevic has been eliminated from the 2010 WPT Grand Prix de Paris.
Finding himself one of the shorter remaining stacks, Michel Bouskila found a spot to push all in preflop, over the top of a Per Linde raise in the cutoff. Small blind Bouskila had to wait a short while while Linde deliberated. Jorgensen pointed out that he was, "Pretty sure you don't have Aces or Kings!"
"That would be pretty bad behaviour," admitted Linde, and sure enough, when he called he held , up against Bouskila's . The board came out keeping the treys in front and sending Bouskila to the rail.
Usually it's the players who call the clock on a player, but we've just had one of the tournament directors do it instead.
Jimmy Ostensson had raised preflop to 15,000 with Bruno Lopes calling.
Lopes than flat-called the 20,000 flop bet on a board . He then check-called a bet of 40,000 on the turn before leading out for 100,000 on the river. Ostensson now raised to 250,000 and Lopes went into the tank thinking for several minutes.
Finally the tournament director came over and put Lopes on a clock, which surprised a couple of the players including Quinn Sivage as it's not a practice common to most parts of the poker world. The clock countdown came and Lopes was forced to fold.
Michael Kwiek is busto after a sudden and large preflop clash which was more of an explosion of chips which propelled Theo Jorgensen into the chip lead. It happened like this: Jorgensen raised to 15k on the button, and Kwiek threebet out of the bib blind (35k total). Back to Jorgensen, who checked out his opponent’s stack for a while (c.300k) before sliding in 115k. Immediately Kwiek moved all-in, and Jorgensen couldn’t have called more quickly.
Kwiek: and some bad timing
Jorgensen:
Flop: “No more hearts…” warned Jorgensen.
Turn: “No more hearts,” he said again, oddly.
River: and that huge pot went his way as he sort of shook his clenched fist in celebration which looked as if he was stabbing the table with an invisible knife.
, I overheard posthand discussion saying that Andrew Teng had bet out into Jimmy Ostensson and Per Linde, who both called.
saw Teng bet out 70k, and while Ostensson passed, Linde ascertained the stack that Teng was playing (around 150-160k) and then called.
which looked as blank as a white wall. Teng now checked, and slowly Linde counted out 150k and pushed it over the line. Into the tank with Teng for a big, tournament deciding decision, and when time was finally called on him he announced, "Call," leaving himself just 2 big blinds.
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flop before Lopes also checked the 
turn. Mattern bet 78,000 and Lopes then check-raised all-in.
while Lopes showed 
. The river favored Mattern coming the 
the big hit came after the turn and river - 
and 
- had fallen with caginess all round. At this point Bruel raised a huge tower of pink 5k chips (150k) which may have been intended to set his opponent in, however it left him with 45k when he just called and a chance at rebuilding.
, and was called by Patrick Bruel in the big blind who had 
and Benzimra now has a little bit of breath back with just over 100,000 in chips.
, to find himself in poor shape vs. Benzimra's 
. A third Jack hit the flop and the set held comfortably to give him a new lease of tournament life with 245k.
and Reynald Zrnjevic has been eliminated from the 2010 WPT Grand Prix de Paris.
. The board came out 
turn before leading out for 100,000 on the 
and some bad timing
