Isabel Baltazar opened the action with a raise to 2,200 and Said El Yousfi called from two seats over. Cris in the big blind three-bet to 6,500 and Baltazar let go, El Yousfi called. On the flop, Cris bet 8,600 with 17,000 behind and El Yousfi took a closer look at the Spaniard's stack before moving all in.
Cris eventually folded and the table was shown the by El Yousfi.
After a raise to 3,000 by Antonio Chemi from early position and a call by the cutoff, Rabah Ait Abdelmalek moved all in for 15,100 from the button. Chemi moved in over the top and the cutoff folded.
Rabah Ait Abdelmalek:
Antonio Chemi:
"King jack off?" the cutoff asked while he barely saw the cards from his spot in the one seat. The board came and Chemi rivered a straight to send Abdelmalek to the rail.
Guillaume Davy shoved for what appeared to be 18 big blinds and Vincent Mansour from one seat over tossed in a single chip for the call while all opponents behind got out of the way.
Guillaume Davy:
Vincent Mansour:
The board of saw Mansour improve on the turn and Davy quickly headed out of the tournament area.
Out of almost nowhere, Michel Leibgorin and Belmehel Dja Daouadji showed up with big stacks and appear to be the current chip leaders. Alexandre Reard dropped some chips, as did Johan Guilbert, while several Spanish players could also snag the overnight lead.
Leibgorin's big stack was the result of a big three-way pot. After a raise to 2,200 and two calls including Leibgorin and Slimane Mameche, Nassima Ouberdous three-bet to 5,500. Only Leibgorin and a Spanish player called to see a flop of and Ouberdous bet 9,000. The Spanish player raised to 28,000 and Leibgorin squeezed to 63,000, which forced out Ouberdous who flashed queens after the shove of the Spanish player with and the call of Leibgorin for 125,000 with .
The turn left the Spaniard drawing dead and vaulted Leibgorin into the top spot.
There are just 183 players out of a 433-entry strong table remaining and they have been sent into the final 15-minute break of the night. One level remains once they get back in their seats before the first of three Main Event days wraps.
Daniel sent Marius Conan to the rail to boost his stack further, while other Spaniards such as Il Dieko Rati Vale are also rising. Among the non nicknames with big stacks are [Removed:445] and Pierrick Burban.
Kaspars Butans was all in and at risk for 35,100 with the and his table neighbor from Spain looked him up for most of his stack with . Butans got there thanks to the flop and the turn and river kept the Latvian in the lead.
Will Davies also scored a double after his ended up scooping the river against the of Said El Yousfi - the board came .
Erwann Pecheux's elimination has reduced the hopes of the PMU.fr Pro Team to just Johan Guilbert, who currently has an above-average stack. Pecheux lost the remainder of his short stack with versus after a flopped nut flush was no good against runner runner magic.