Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
News from our French colleagues reaches us that Brian Benhamou has been eliminated after his cold 4-bet shove with ![]()
came up against the pocket jacks of Sofian Benaissa
There are currently 92 players from a starting field of 142 battling it out at the tables, with just one level available of reentry tonight.
I said earlier that Achille Voltolina reentered this WSOPC Main Event, and he seems to be doing a lot better with his second bullet after eliminating two players in the same hand.
Preflop saw Voltolina raise to 8,000 over an open, and a player behind him shove all in. This shove was for less than the raise, and after Voltolina's bet got another caller, there was now a sidepot.
The flop was ![]()
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and Voltolina bet another 8,000. His opponent moved all-in and Voltolina made the call with ![]()
. His top pair was way ahead of his opponents' holdings of ![]()
and ![]()
, and although the
on the turn opened the door, the
slammed it shut
If Barny Boatman ever hung up his poker-playing shoes I reckon he'd be a mighty fine tournament reporter, with the detail he remembers hands. Sadly in this case it was a spot where he lost some chips.
On a board of ![]()
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Boatman check-raised his opponent all-in holding ![]()
. According to Boatman, his opponent Manuel Sadornil was a "serial bluffer", but this time he came up with the goods, holding ![]()
for a flopped full house.
Six players all limped in and saw a flop of ![]()
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. One of them was Kalidou Sow whose bet of 1500 was raised by Rakesh Lalwani to 5200. It folded back to Sow, who then moved all-in for just under 20,000.
Lalwani and Sow both spoke back and forth in quick-fire French for a couple of minutes, before Lalwani threw in the chips to call.
Sow: ![]()
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Lalwani: ![]()
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Lalwani, who earlier this week won a WSOP Circuit Ring in the Opening Event, needed a nine or a jack but the board bricked out ![]()
, giving Sow the chips and crippling Lalwani
Level: 8
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Frenchman Paul Tedeschi has joined the field. He's currently a little under starting stack but I'm sure we'll soon start to see him accumulate chips
Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
The remaining 105 players have reached the second break of the day