Charles "Chaz" Chattha four-bet shoved for 65,000 out of the small blind with . Antoine Saout had raised to 10,000 and Julien Brulet three-bet to 20,000, calling the shove with after having won a bigger pot before already. The board ran out with the Brit being drawing dead after the flop already.
Two players busted almost at the same time to reduce the field to its last 62 hopefuls and thus the final seven tables of the tournament have been reached.
Jussi Matilla had been fighting with a short stack for quite some time and is still below the average. However, he just got paid off for 40,000 on the river of a paired board that contained two nines. Matilla had rivered a full house with pocket fives and scooped the pot.
On the turn, Pierre Merlin bet 46,000 out of the small blind and Gurkan Cifci clicked it back to 102,000. This small reraise enforced a fold from the PMU online qualifier shortly before the break.
On a flop of , Matas Cimbolas faced the all in of Florian Ravier and eventually folded.
One table over, same happened to Jean Michel Texier after betting the flop for 22,000 and then mucking to the shove of Mohamed Mamouni. He was shown the by Mamouni.
The details of his elimination remain a mystery, but Sergio Benso, who started the day as one of the big stacks, has been eliminated to reduce the field to 61 players.
Pierre Merlin raised and called the three-bet shove of Alessandro Sarro with pocket jacks. The Italian had and couldn't get there. Maurice Vieira also busted straight after the restart to reduce the field to 59 players.
It looks like only two Italians remain in Stefano Garbarino and Marco Della Tommasina.
Despite betting 16,000 on a three-way turn of and folding to a shove of a short stack for 61,000, Niels Gybels is the current chip leader with far more than half a million in chips.