With 8,000 in the pot and 
on the board, Farid Jattin bet 3,000 and Alexander Tkatschew called from the cutoff. The turn was 
.
Jattin continued for 7,000 and Tkatschew called once more. The river was 
.
Jattin checked the river and Tkatschew shoved but Jattin had no interest in calling so he quickly tossed his hand in the muck. Tkatschew dragged the pot and moved over 50,000 as Day 1a begins to near its halfway point.
Tamon Nakamura got his short stack in with the 
and Emil Bise did so with the 
. Tsugunari Toma had the by far biggest stack of the three players involved and turned over 
.
The 
board improved Bise to the superior full house and Nakamura was sent to the rail.
Niveau: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
With 5,000 in the pot and 
on the board, Kacper Swiderski bet 2,000 and Eric Qu called. The turn was 
.
Swiderski continued for 6,000 and Qu called quickly to see 
on the river.
After a few moments of thought, Swiderski fired another 6,000. Qu shuffled out his chips and raised to 12,000. It was too much for Swiderski and he tossed his hand in the muck to preserve is last 12,000.
La main s'est étalée sur 10 minutes et Julien Sitbon a été timé deux fois ! Le Français avait encore le masque quelques minutes après ce pot, il a depuis retrouvé un peu le sourire...
L'action s'est emballée sur un flop 
avec déjà un pot conséquent de 18 000 pions, Thi Xoa Nguyen (en petite blinde) et Julien Sitbon (en MP) ont ensuite checké au tournant, tout comme Tsugunari Toma.
Sur le river, Thi Xoa est sortie pour 12 000 et Julien Sitbon a mis une éternité à payer. Après avoir été timé, le Français a payé... Toma a lui pris moins de 20 secondes pour relancer à 25 000 pions.
Thi Xoa a rapidement jeté ses cartes alors que Julien Sitbon est entré dans un deuxième tank après avoir indiqué à Thi qu'il persuadé qu'elle n'avait pas sur ce coup.
Julien va finalement call-muck face au 
du Japonais. "Je sais que tu as les 
, lâchera quelques secondes plus tard le Japonais désormais bien lancé vers les sommets du leaderboard.
Tamon Nakamura was down to a few chips only which he got in before the flop with the 
. He was looked up by fellow countryman Tsugunari Toma in the small blind with the .
It was Toma who got there on the 
flop but the 
turn and river kept Nakamura in contention. "Now I have a very big stack," he joked.
5e de l'édition 2016 pour plus de 230 000€, Pierre Calamusa se sent bien à Monte-Carlo. Le Français expatrié au Portugal nous raconte le coup qui l'a propulsé en haut du leaderboard sur 100-200.
"Alors la grosse main c'est open UTG et 3-bet juste derrière, je paye dans les blindes avec 
et je frappe le flop 
... après deux checks, l'agresseur mise le pot et je suis le seul à payer pour un HU. Sur le tournant 
, je checke-raise à tapis après qu'il ait miser encore une fois le pot... il paye avec 
et saute rivière", explique le Team Pro Winamax, très bien lancé sur un tournoi qui lui réussit bien !
Alexey Losev raised from middle position and Luca Giovannone called from cutoff before Didier Pitcho shoved his last 5,400 from the button. Both players called and the flop was .
Losev bet 2,600 on the flop and Giovannone raised to 8,000. Losev got away from it after a few moments in the tank and the cards were turned up.
Didier Pitcho:
Luca Giovannone:
Both players had ace-jack but Pitcho had flush opportunities that were dashed on the 
turn. The 
on the river was inconsequential and both players split up Losev's chips while Giovannone took the small side pot.
With just 3,500 in the middle to the 
flop, the chips of Alexandre Saxod and Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte went into the middle of the table with the former at risk for 16,400.
Alexandre Saxod: 
Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte: 
"I can make a straight flush but you cannot," Garcia Reverte joked. He had no reason to laugh anymore on the 
turn as Saxod improved to the nut flush and that left the Spaniard with one out.
The river was the and Saxod doubled.
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