After a flop of , Matas Cimbolas called a bet of 3,000 with not much behind and would then see the on the turn. His opponent glanced over to see the stack of the Lithuanian and then bet 5,000, which was met with a quick all in call by Cimbolas for 4,275.
The opponent turned over the and Cimbolas announced "nuts" after seeing the cards of his opponent: . A brick on the river saw the WPT Nottingham champion stack up chips again, he is still below the starting stack though.
There may be few other bigger stacks as well, but Jean Michel Texier and David van Roosbroeck were atop the leader board for quite some time. They are joined by Sebastien Ta, who also has six digits already.
Florian Tissier defended his big blind against the raise of Brian Benhamou, who was sitting under the gun. On a flop of , Tissier check-raised and called all in once Benhamou pushed to flip over the for a flush draw. Benhamou was ahead with king-queen, but the 4c] turn saw the PMU poker pro drawing dead against the online qualifier of the very same site.
The meaningless river was just a formality and both players swapped their stacks.
In a few minutes as of 8 p.m. CET, a €220 Satellite for tomorrow's €2,200 High Roller takes place with 10,000 chips and levels of 20 minutes. Since all tables upstairs are still more or less occupied, the qualifier will take place in the tournament area downstairs with up to eight tables.
Nicolas Rodier had a short stack at risk with versus and said to his opponent in French "it is not over yet" after a flop of . The turn instantly killed all hopes of the short stack and a meaningless river completed the board.
Jerome Buruil had just doubled up not long ago with against with a flop of and then just called the raise of a shorter-stacked opponent with the nut flush. The opponent had 7,200 behind and since Buruil just flat-called with the best possible hand, he was given a one round penalty.
One player limped and the hand of Carlos Lopes was not even strong enough to fill up from the small blind, nor shove the remaining 10 big blinds into the middle of the table. After a move gone wrong on day 1a, the second starting day is not looking any better for the Frenchman.
Aliosha Staes three-bet shoved for 6,875 once Niels Gybels had raised to 1,200 and Olivier Paris moved all in over the top out of the blinds, having both opponents covered. Gybels snap-called with the and would more than double up for 20,700 as he held up against Staes' and Paris' .
The board ran out . Just as the hand was over, Rob Strong also walked past us with a slight nod and "nothing special". Seat open.
The former seat of Jonas Lauck is now occupied by Fabrice Somers and tournament staff has confirmed that the German is among the players eliminated before the dinner break.
, Matas Cimbolas called a bet of 3,000 with not much behind and would then see the 
on the turn. His opponent glanced over to see the stack of the Lithuanian and then bet 5,000, which was met with a quick all in call by Cimbolas for 4,275.
and Cimbolas announced "nuts" after seeing the cards of his opponent: 
. A brick on the river saw the WPT Nottingham champion stack up chips again, he is still below the starting stack though.
, Tissier check-raised and called all in once Benhamou pushed to flip over the 
river was just a formality and both players swapped their stacks.
versus 
and said to his opponent in French "it is not over yet" after a flop of 
. The 
turn instantly killed all hopes of the short stack and a meaningless 
river completed the board.
against 
and would more than double up for 20,700 as he held up against Staes' 
. Just as the hand was over, Rob Strong also walked past us with a slight nod and "nothing special". Seat open.
