Matt Salsberg opened to 14,000 from late position, and Jean-Philippe Rohr three-bet jammed from the big blind. Salsberg snapped it off, tabling two , and Rohr was dominated with .
On one of the first hands, Dan Djorno open-shoved all in from under the gun. Jérome Douieb re-shoved on his direct left, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes re-re-shoved his his direct left, and the rest of the players folded.
Showdown
Djorno:
Douieb:
Lopes:
The board ran out , and Djorno was eliminated.
Douieb is now among the leaders with over 800,000 chips, while Lopes is now in trouble with just 60,000.
Nicolas Cardyn was the first player eliminated here on Day 4. On one of the first hands of the day, Cardyn was all in and at risk holding and Kyle Cheong had him at risk with . Cheong held, and Cardyn was eliminated.
Yesterday, Tony G promised Marvin Retteinmaier that if he won the Grand Prix de Paris, he'd earn one week's stay at Tony Land for the rest of his life.
Rettenmaier busted before the money unfortunately, but check out his blog post over on the Party Poker Blog.
Day 4 of the World Poker Tour Season XI Grand Prix de Paris is set to start in the next thirty minutes, and Philipp Gruissem is the chip leader with 1.06 million chips. Matt Salsberg is right behind him with 951,000 chips, and the next nearest player is Idris Ambraisse, who has 591,000.
Here's a look at the top ten:
Rank
Name
Chips
1
Philipp Gruissem
1,060,000
2
Matt Salsberg
951,000
3
Idris Ambraisse
591,000
4
Bruno Lopes
440,000
5
Joe Serock
411,000
6
Jérome Douieb
402,000
7
Mohsin Charania
307,000
8
Grégoire Boissenot
299,000
9
Fabian Quoss
279,000
10
Florian Leconte
266,000
Theo Jorgensen and Juha Helppi are the only WPT Champions Club members still remaining. Jorgensen won this event in Season IX, earning him €638,377 - can he become the first player to win this event twice?
Other notables that are still alive include Season X Player of the Year Joe Serock, Bryan Colin, Kyle Julius, Andrew Lichtenberger, and Mohsin Charania. Serock and Charnia are both in the top ten, while the other three have some work to do if they want to reach the final table.
The plan is to play from twenty-four players to an official final table of six. We will start on Level 18 with the blinds at 3,000/6,000/1,000, making the average stack 47 big blinds.
Be sure to stay tuned for all of your up-to-the-minute updates right here at PokerNews.com!