The board texture was 4♥3♠9♣10♦2♥ and the river held all of the action where Dmitry Shunikov bet 11,000 on the button and the player in the cutoff called with his remaining chips.
Cutoff: K♠J♣
Dmitry Shunikov: 3♦3♣
Shunikov won the pot with a set and sent the cutoff packing.
With a pot of about 60,000, Vic Peppe announced he was all in for 35,800, on the board of 10♠4♦9♦8♣, laying his tournament life on the line. After tanking for a minute or two, his opponent elected to call. Peppe flipped over J♠Q♦ showing his nut straight while his opponent was drawing to four outs with 10♣9♣.
Fortunately for Peppe, the river changed nothing as a 6♣ appeared allowing him to scoop the pot. With this chip up, Peppe now sits pretty with 131,600 chips at the break.
The board was 4♥3♠9♣10♦2♥ and the river held all of the action where Dmitry Shunikov bet 11,000 on the button and the player in the cutoff called with his remaining chips.
Cutoff: K♠J♣
Dmitry Shunikov: 3♦3♣
Shunikov won the pot with a set and sent the cutoff packing.
On a board of A♣3♥J♣10♦9♦ Paulo Gini pushed all in for 22,000 in to the pot. The opponent called the all in.
Gini had A♠K♥ and the opponent had 7♦7♥. Gini took down the pot with top pair.
Gini then stated that "AK is always Brazil" and one of his opponents had said that he had "lost already with AK two times" so he was not sure how true that statement was.
The player in the cutoff opened to 2,400 and Jean-Robert Autran on the button and the big blind came along to see a flop.
The flop was 3♥10♠8♣ and the cutoff bet 5,200. Autran called, while the big blind tossed in his cards.
The turn brought 7♥ and both players checked.
The cutoff shoved his remaining stack in on the river K♥ and Autran called immediately with Kx8x, holding a better two pair than the cutoff who flashed Kx7x.
In a field of over 2400 players two top Canadian players sitting side-by-side. Mike Leah is off to the races with double starting stack. He is sticking with the pressure in a recent hand a player in early position opened to 2,600 Leah three-bet 10,600 and the player instantly folded to give Leah the pot.
Next to Leah is Nicola Basile another top Canadian player.
With a flop of A♣J♠A♦ Virgile Allard opted to check, allowing the first of the two other players in the pot to bet for 2,000. The other player quickly folded, as Allard continued with a call to make it a heads up pot.
The turn was the A♠, allowing any Jack or paired hand to make a full house. Once again, Allard checked leading to his opponent to bet 5,000 into the pot. After little time, Allard found a call to the river.
Nothing changed on the river, as a 10♥ only added one more full house. Both Allard and his opponent checked it down, resulting in Allard showing A♥2♦ for the nuts and quads before the break. With this pot, Allard's stack increased to the tune of 131,700.