Smain Mamouni's raise was called by Pierre Barthelemy on the button and Mamouni continued for 23,000 on the flop, which Barthelemy called. On the turn, Mamouni made it 57,000 to go and again Barthelemy called before the fell on the river.
Mamouni moved all in and Barthelemy asked for a count. After several minutes in the think tank, he called the 149,000 and Mamouni turned over . Barthelemy was reluctant to flash before he paid off Mamouni.
Belmehel Dja Daouadji raised from under the gun before Louis Linard and Mohamed Derhmain both moved all in. Derhmain had the biggest stack of the trip and Dja called to create a massive three-way showdown.
Louis Linard:
Belmehel Dja Daouadji:
Mohamed Derhmain:
The board came to let Linard triple up, while Dja doubled his remaining 95,000 through Derhmain.
The Moroccan busted soon after by three-bet shoving his shortr stack with into the open raise of Ludovic Moryousef's . The board came and that was it for Derhmain.
The short stack grind of Will Davies eventually came to an end. Down to 76,000, the Brit shoved from early position and the action reached Damien Lhommeau in the cutoff, who just called. Pierre Barthelemy seemed interested in the big blind but folded.
"Ace queen?" Davies asked before showing his , but instead Lhommeau quickly flipped over . The Brit was hoping fort a sweat on the flop, but ended up drawing dead on the turn of a board instead to bust in 31st place.
Six levels are done and dusted, and the remaining 30 players have been sent into a 75-minute dinner break. The goal of the day is to play down to the last 16 for the live stream final on Sunday. Action will resume at approximately 10.15 p.m. local time.
Alexandra Laudicina raised to 22,000 and was called by Pierrick Burban from one seat over. On the flop of , Laudicina bet 30,000 and Burban almost immediately min-raised to 60,000. Laudicina gave it some consideration and folded.