Julian Fabre moved all in for his last 33,000 chips from early position. The player in the small blind flat-called before Sylvain Loosli three-bet all in for 198,500.
The caller was in a world of hurt, and cast anxious glances to the tournament clock while counting out his own chips. Eventually he let his hand go.
Julian Fabre:
Sylvain Loosli:
The third player seemed relatively happy with his decision, or at least didn't give any emotion away as the board ran out giving Loosli trip queens and eliminating Fabre.
No sooner had we spotted Joan Hadley sitting pretty with around 350,000, we spotted not only Liam O'Donoghue with 430,000 and Olivier Marchet with 580,000.
Here are the latest chip counts from some of the notables in the field. Also included is the name of Joan Hadley who has shot up and is now contending for the chip lead with a healthy stack somewhere in the region of 350,000.
There is another 20-minute break where the 100-value chips are being raced off. At the end of this break, the late registration and re-entry will close, and there will then be three levels left in the day before players bag up ahead of Day 2.
Defending champion Antonin Teisseire has been eliminated. We didn't get the hand but we saw him gesturing wildly to a friend still seated in the tournament. Sonny Franco and Mike D'inca have both chipped up.
There is around 25 minutes left before late registration and re-entry close for the day, so the pace of eliminations has increased, perhaps with some players looking to try their hand at running up a 20 big blind stack in the last three levels of the day.
There is also a large satellite to the Main Event running in one corner of the venue, with players looking to satellite into Day 1B of the Main Event which gets underway at 12 p.m. local time tomorrow.
Tomas Soderstrom raised to 4,000 from the hijack. It folded to Olivier Daubigny in the small blind who took a look at Soderstrom's stack before raising to 11,000. The big blind folded and with the action back on Soderstrom he thought for a moment before moving all in for 38,600. Daubigny called.
Olivier Daubigny:
Tomas Soderstrom:
Soderstrom had woken up with Aces and they held on the . The dealer deal the river and it flicked facedown, increasing the sweat of the four-card flush on the board. When it turned up as a brick, both Soderstrom and his neighbour let out a laugh and the Swede counted out his stack for the double up.
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giving Loosli trip queens and eliminating Fabre.
flop and Sonny Franco called.
and both players checked.
for a missed gutshot while Franco took down the pot with 
for top pair.
. The dealer deal the river and it flicked facedown, increasing the sweat of the four-card flush on the board. When it turned up as a brick, both Soderstrom and his neighbour let out a laugh and the Swede counted out his stack for the double up.
