Here are the chip counts for the players as they go on a 75 minute dinner break. Afterwards players will return to blinds of 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Here are the chip counts for the players as they go on a 75 minute dinner break. Afterwards players will return to blinds of 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Loic Blarez opened to 90,000 from the cutoff and was three-bet by the chip leader Mathieu Selides from the button. Samir Beldjoudi, who had been nursing a short stack for a while moved all in for just over 1,000,000 chips. Blarez folded and Selides made the call.
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There was a king in the window for Beldjoudi as the flop came ![]()
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. With five players left the average is now a whopping 53 big blinds, with players fast approaching their scheduled dinner break
The action has slowed somewhat now that we are six-handed, but they have just announced that in 30 minutes there will be a 75 minute dinner break.
Meanwhile the seats are filling up with players eager to sample a taste of the final table atmosphere
Pecheux moved all-in for roughly 550,000 from the hijack and Loic Blarez called from the big blind.
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Unbelievably, Erwann Pecheux had managed to pick up Aces for the second time in the space of half an hour. However, this time his luck was not to be. A big gasp went up as the flop was dealt ![]()
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, with the
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doing nothing but sealing the Frenchman's fate, finishing in 7th place for €19,095
The cards were on their backs and it wasn't looking good for Jonathan Khalifa who was dominated by chipleader Mathieu Selides
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It wasn't looking good for Khalifa and it was all done by the turn, with Khalifa exiting in 8th place after the board was dealt: ![]()
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Loic Blarez moved all-in from the button and got called by Mathieu Selides in the big blind.
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Selides needed a Jack but it didn't come as the cards were dealt ![]()
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Erwann Pecheux opened from middle position to 60,000 and got callers in Beldjoudi and Anthony Rodrigues. Pedro Oliveira, in the small blind, enquired after Pecheux and Beldjoudi's stacks before putting in a raise to 225,000.
Pecheux and Beldjoudi called, but Rodrigues made the call and together they saw a flop of ![]()
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. Oliveira, who was first to act, thought for a minute or two before announcing he was all-in. Rodrigues snap-called and tabled ![]()
while Oliveira showed Aces.
Rodrigues had flopped a straight, but Oliveira had outs. However the ![]()
were nought but bricks and Oliveira exited in 9th place
Level: 27
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 5,000
Jonathan Khalifa raised to 65,000 from the cutoff and saw Erwann Pecheux shove for his last 11 big blinds. Khalifa called and the players turned their hands over.
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The newly crippled Pecheux had picked up a monster in the small blind and the board bricked for Khalifa ![]()
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to give Pecheux the double up
Erwann Pecheux raised pre-flop and Pedro Oliveira called in the big blind.
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flop and Oliveira lead out on the
river for 105,000. Pecheux called and the
was dealt on the river. Again Oliveira bet, and he bet big this time, sliding out a stack of chips totalling 315,000. Pecheux called and Oliveira tabled ![]()
for a flush. Pecheux winced, and flashed ![]()
and was left with roughly 13 big blinds after that call