We thought we’d keep an eye on Stephan Ouzilou for a few hands to see how his table is playing.
Hand #1: The player on the button opens, the small blind shoves and Ouzilou folds the big blind. The shove gets through.
Hand #2: It folds round to Ouzilou in the small blind and he folds. Stephane Benadiba is short stacked in the big blind and he shakes his hand. Ouzilou gives him a kiss in return.
Hand #3: With an open to 24,000 and a three bet to 62,000 ahead of him Ouzilou folds and the three-bet gets through.
Hand #4: Ouzilou folds to a riase.
Hand #5: It folds to Ouzilou who makes it 30,000 and picks up one caller in the big blind. They check it all the way down to the river of a board reading . The player in the big blind spikes the river with his and takes the pot.
Hand #6: With an open to 25,000 and one call ahead of him Ouzilou makes the call as does one player behind. The flop is and with a check from the original raiser but a bet of 60,000 ahead of him Ouzilou folds and that ends the hand.
Not a ton of action there but it demonstrates Ouzilou is playing a patient considered game and is not ready to waste chips from his big stack unnecessarily.
Noemie Phu had suffered a setback while on the bubble earlier on calling an all-in with but the short stack player had . With a dwindling stack she opened from the cut-of and got called by the player on the button.
The flop was and Phu continued for 43,000 and got a call. On the turn card Phu moved all in and was instantly called.
The dealer waited for the floor before asking the players to turn over their cards. It was bad news for Phu as her opponent had and she tuned over for an open-ended straight draw.