Fabio Sperling moved all in for his short stack of around 13 big blinds from under the gun and had a coin flip against the pocket nines of the player in the big blind. The of the German failed to improve with the community cards and Sperling was on the way out of the door.
Matas Cimbolas is usually known as very active and talkative player, however so far he concentrated on a movie on his computer. Then, the Lithuanian raised to 675 and was called by Guillaume Darcourt only to see a flop of . Cimbolas' continuation bet of 950 was called before the two of them checked down the turn and river.
Cimbolas turned over the and an ace was good enough to win the pot.
After a limp and a raise to 800 as well as a call, Julien Sitbon called as well and the initial limper raised to 4,500. Only Sitbon called with 7,000 behind. On the flop, Sitbon got his remaining 7,000 chips in with and was not quite snap-called by Petri Jantunen before eventually looking straight into a set of aces. No runner runner miracle happened and Sitbon was sent off the table that also features Florence Allera and Alexandre Reard.
After preflop action with three-bet to 2,800, Jean Michel Texier and Guillaume Darcourt headed to the flop of . A bet of 3,000 by Darcourt was raised to 8,200 by Texier and Darcourt tossed in the extra chips. On the turn, Darcourt check-called a bet of 14,000 and checked again the river.
Texier pushed all in and Darcourt called off his remaining 25,000 with only to see his opponent turn over .
David van Roosbroeck appears to be the current chip leader with an astonishing stack of 170,000, good for fourth place overall if he was to bag and tag right now.
Pascal Masset made the nut flush with in the secondary tournament area and was called by an opponent holding the for the inferior flush. The Belgian, regular on the events with a buy in of up to €1,000, has thus doubled up his starting stack.
With 204 players remaining and 21 tables upstairs, the very last table downstairs has been closed and everyone is now in the two tournament areas up here.