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Play starts at 4pm (3pm UK time).

Already spotted:

Mark Teltscher
Steve Zolotow
Sorel Mizzi
Jason Lester
Paul Gourlay
Mats Iremark
Ram Vaswani
Peter Gould
Pascal Perrault
Daniel Smits Bertelson
Jan Boubli

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Incredibly (well, not so over here I guess), we've had an all-in already, the two players pictured below somehow doing battle in a 30k+ pot.

I joined the action with the board reading 7s Js 8d 7h 5c and a chunk of chips scattered in the middle, plenty of yellow thousands too.

Runasson Runar was all-in for 7,500 and the decision was down to the other chappy, Vikash Dhorasso, who didn't look too confident at all.

As expected, he folded, but it's quite remarkable to see such action at such and early stage.

Hope fulfilled - a list has arrived, and today it's my pleasure to type it in for you:

Table 5

Carlos Da Silva
Michel Cohen
Mark Teltscher
Alain Layani
Adolfo Vaeza
Herve Schoukroun
Yuri Kerzhapkin
Xavier Detournel
Eric Larcheveque

Table 6

Noel Gleans
Jason Lester
Guillaume Delta Gorce
Steve Zolotow
Patrick Schull
Sorel Mizzi
Henri Boutboul
Remy Biechel

Table 7

Clement Amagat
Farouk Bensalem
Benjamin Scampini
Karim Massoud
Christophe Cabras
Ray Coburn
Guillaume Darcourt
Antoine Chuzeville
Leo Poly

Table 8

Ramzi Jelassi
Runar Runarsson
Szawomir Rypiniski
Mats Iremark
Stephane Lering
Peter Gould
Paul Gourlay
E. Sfez
Patrick Bueno

Table 9

Eric Koskas
Stephane Krausz
Vivian Anseline
Karsten Johansen
Vikash Dhorasso
JB Bot
Pascal Perrault
Alexandre Broca
Jonathan Fhal

Table 10

Ahmed Debabeche
John Hennigan
Patric Martensson
V. Troyanovskiy
Erik Cajelais
Daniel Bertelsen
Jan Boubli
Nikolas Liakos
Peter Politis

Table 11

Jeff Wallace
Matthias Poppel
Carson Russell
Jean Paul Pasqualini
Adrien Gavile
Ram Vaswani
Remi Marrale
H. Kakoun
Will Ma

Table 12

David Redlin
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Freddy Deeb
James Witkowski
Didier Pitchot
Massaah Kagawa
Georges Teboul
Imad Derwich
Fabrice Toil

There are odd spellings aplenty (e.g. Marc Teltschir) so please be lenient if we get your friends' names wrong...

Thanks to Benjo for spotting this one - it's pretty good - Sorel Mizzi (who seems to be everywhere nowadays) against Fabrice Thuil... They see a Jd Jc 8h flop which Fabrice check-raises... Sorel calls.  The turn and river are 3c 3h, so this is what gets the Ahrt Jh of Fabrice interested in paying off Sorel's ahead-all-the-way Js 8d...

Reasonably big pot attracts the journalists (of whom there are just a handful, for a change) like big note-taking moths:

On the turn V. Troyanovskiy dwells after being check-raised to 3,100 by Nikolas Liakos (pictured, the one with cards in front of him) with the board standing 7h Ahrt Ks 2s.  Eventually he calls.  The river is the 2d.  Nikolas checks, and there follows a very lengthy dwell from his in-position opponent, who eventually decides not to bet, effectively giving it up to Nikolas' Aspades Kc.

Yesterday's full chip counts, written up with special attention by Rolf Slotboom, and pinched with equal care by me:

   1. Ryad Abour 71,750
   2. Nikolai Evdakov 70,550
   3. Alexander Kuzmin 64,200
   4. Samir Shakhtoor 63,100
   5. Atanas Gueorguieu 62,250
   6. Kirill Rabtsov 61,175
   7. Gilbert Chahine 61,050
   8. Nasrodin Pirmamod 58,475
   9. Janne Lamsa 56,200
  10. Antoine Nouel 47,550
  11. Michel Akrich 46,465
  12. Csaba Kuremszki 45,350
  13. Paul Testud 43,300
  14. Istuan Pelyhe 42,225
  15. Nichlas Saarisilta 39,600
  16. Tor Gammelgard 35,350
  17. Jeff Lisandro 35,325
  18. John Kabbaj 35,075
  19. Brian Johnson 34,850
  20. Pier Paolo Ruscalla 34,775
  21. Alaksandr Dzianisau 34,675
  22. Wasek Lukasz 29,975
  23. Brad Libson 29,725
  24. Jason Lee 28,700
  25. Thomas Belleuvre 23,475
  26. Otto Richard 22,500
  27. Daniel Donnabedian 22,325
  28. Dave Colclough 21,925
  29. Pascal Barrau 21,100
  30. Marc Goodwin 21,050
  31. Philippe Narboni 16,875
  32. Johan Storakers 15,950
  33. Mads Andersen 14,150
  34. Francois Demoly 13,850
  35. Nikolai Losev 8,975
  36. Walid Bouhabib 7,700
  37. Turgut Guner 7,200
  38. Elie Marciano 6,500
  39. Stephane Gouverneur 6,200

Down to 69, which means we've lost our first player of the day, and that unfortunate man is...

Stephane Krausz  :'(

The opponent sending him to an early bath appears to be Vikash Dhorasso, as he now has just under 35k in front of him.

Mark Teltscher -- 18,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 31.075
Jason Lester -- 20,375
Ramzi Jelassi -- 19,925
Paul Gourlay -- 19,875
Peter Gould -- 24,225
Ram Vaswani -- 18,200
Pascal Perrault -- 20,125
Patric Martensson -- 21,350

Down to 68, and judging from the empty seat formerly occupied by V. Troyanovskiy, and the mountain of chips in front of Peter Politis he must have met his demise in the last ten minutes.  Peter's stack:  42,500, and the blinds are still only 50/100.  That's 425 big blinds he has there.

With one minute left of this level, I thought I'd get out of the way before they all head out to the bar etc.  This means that I only had time to count two tables this level, so preoccupied was I with photoshopping Snoopy etc.  Sorry.

Here are two, anyway:

Table 5

Carlos Da Silva           19.650
Michel Cohen            15,925
Mark Teltscher          16,325
Alain Layani               19,100
Adolfo Vaeza             20,325
Herve Schoukroun     17,800
Yuri Kerzhapkin          24,700
Xavier Detournel        18,650
Eric Larcheveque       22,000

Table 6

Noel Gleans              33,800
Jason Lester             18,100
Guillaume Delta Gorce  15,600
Steve Zolotow           22,250
Patrick Schull             22,500
Sorel Mizzi                 29,775
Henri Boutboul          12,600
Remy Biechel            1,950
Fabrice Touil              20,575

Alexandre Broca is gone, which means that we're down to 67 with blinds of 100/200.

Guillaume Darcourt has just eliminated Benjamin Scampini, Ad 9s vs. Ahrt 7h on a 4h Ac 9h Flop.

The heart-unfriendy 4 Turn and 3 River were of no use and Benjamin was understandably gutted.

More chip counts:

Table 7

Clement Amagat      27,650
Farouk Bensalem      19,325
Benjamin Scampini    14,175
Karim Massoud         17,775
Christophe Cabras     33,600
Ray Coburn              19,450
Guillaume Darcourt    20,500
Antoine Chuzeville     23,050
Leo Poly                    ?  Missing presumed OUT

Table 8

Ramzi Jelassi             17,775
Runar Runarsson       29,250
Szawomir Rypiniski     12,175
Mats Iremark            12,900
Stephane Lering       20,000
Peter Gould             27,500
Paul Gourlay             19,800
E. Sfez                    14,600
Patrick Bueno           30,100

Table 9

Eric Koskas               38,900
Peter Politis              51,000
Vivian Anseline          26,700
Karsten Johansen      15,700
Vikash Dhorasso         36,800
JB Bot                      9,750
Pascal Perrault           36,950
Alexandre Broca         OUT
Jonathan Fhal             8,075

Table 12

David Redlin                   22,900
Yevgeniy Timoshenko      10,200
Freddy Deeb                  39,800
James Witkowski             8,800
Didier Pitchot                  25,775
Masaki Kagawa                14,900
Georges Teboul              23,650
Imad Derwich                 16,500

Fabrice Touil is OUT.

All-in pre-flop with Aspades Kh vs. Guillaume Delta Gorce's Qh Qc.

Board = 9d 2h Qd Jh 2d

And the rest of the counts;

Table 10     - they were just breaking this table as I hovered around - getting in everyone's way until I gave up.  '?' means 'No count,' not 'Out.'

Ahmed Debabeche    16,350
John Hennigan           20,200
Patric Martensson            ?
V. Troyanovskiy           OUT
Erik Cajelais                  ?
Daniel Bertelsen         17,150
Jan Boubli                    ?
Nikolas Liakos               12,800

Table 11

Jeff Wallace            17,300
Matthias Poppel       20,625
Carson Russell           22,000
Jean Paul Pasqualini   23,450
Adrien Gavile            24,400
Ram Vaswani             9,700
Remi Marrale             33,000
H. Kakoun                9,550
Will Ma                      Not there

Matthias Poppel wins a good 10k pot like so: 

Heads up opponent Jeff Wallace bets out 1,500 on a Qh 8h 7h flop.  He calls.  Wallace then bets 3k on the Kc turn.  Call.
River:  Qd  Now it goes a slowish check-check - Jeff Wallace's 6h 6s no good against Ahrt Aspades...
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We have moved on to the table which has broken in the tournament area.  Great!  We feel like we're right in the middle of it, which we now are.  On the left - a floorman shouting initials for the already heaving cash games, on the right a big pot between Vikash Dharasso and Eric Koskas:

Caught this on the turn with the board:  Tc 3s 9s 5d when Vikash had bet 6,000 into around an 8k pot.  Eric was thinking...eventually he called.
River:  Th  Eric checked, and received a check behind so fast it spoke quite a lot about how much Vikash liked that river...

But Eric showed 7s 8s leaving the mighty 5c 3c in Dharasso's hand to take the pot with two pair, Tens and Fives...

The Wi-fi has apparently gone down, but they are now on a 90 minute break.

Table 5:

Carlos da Silva -- 22,650
? -- 22,075
Mark Teltscher-- 19,650
Alain Layani -- 31,625
Adolfo Vaeza -- 19,450
Herve Schaikroun -- 16,300
Yuri Kerzhapkin -- 21,300
Xavier Detournel -- 28,000
Eric Larchveque -- 19,650

Table 6:

Noel Gaens -- 27,325
Jason Lester -- 13,350
Guillaume Delta Gorse -- 24,150
Steve Zolotow -- 20,075
Patrick Schull -- 20,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 45,900
Henri Boutboul -- 15,100
Patric Martensson -- 15,825
Eric Cajelais -- 38,750

Table 7:

Clement Amagat -- 32,100
Farouk Bensalem -- 14,700
Jan Boubli -- 16,350
Karim Massoud -- 12,800
Christopher Cabras -- 35,775
Ray Coburn -- 11,825
Guillaume Darcourt -- 31,750
Antoine Chuzeville -- 20,650

Table 8:

Ramzi Jelassi -- 16,550
Runar Runarsson -- 24,775
Szawomir Rypiniski-- 12,275
Mats Iremark -- 17,900
Stephane Lering -- 21,900
Peter Gould -- 32,300
Paul Gourlay -- 23075
E. Sfez -- 27,600
Patrick Bueno -- 16,875

Table 9:

Eric Koskas -- 33,275
Peter Politis -- 52,350
Vivian Anseline -- 33,725
Karsten Johansen -- 35,350
Vikash Dharasso -- 19,050
JB Bot -- 3,875
Pascal Perrault -- 39,175
Daniel Smits Bertelsen -- 30,050

Table 11:

Jeff Wallace -- 23,200
Matthias Poppel -- 18,025
Carson Russell -- 21,400
Jean Paul Pasqualini -- 29,050
Adrien Gavile -- 26,875
Ram Vaswani -- 28,075
Remi Marrale -- 26,825
H. Kakoun -- 7,500

Table 12:

David Redlin -- 22,825
Yevgeniy Timoshenko -- 5,900
Freddy Deeb -- 38,475
James Witkowski -- 7,675
Didier Pitchot -- 20,775
Masaki Kagawa -- 25150
Georges Teboul -- 20,950
Imad Derwich -- 21,550
Ahmed Debabeche -- 14,150

Ram Vaswani is now on 65k and the probable chip leader after winning a huge pot off Jean Paul Pasqualini, eliminating him in the process.

When I joined, the cards were on the back and the 8h 8d 5c Ts Js had been dealt out, Ram scooping the lot with Jh Jd versus Js 8c.

It looks like Jonathan Fhal is now out, and the internet crashed pre-dinner break before I could relate this hand - a stage in his demise:

A board of Jd 3c 9s 7h and Daniel Smits checked...Jonathan bet 4,200 - leaving himself just over 5k behind.  Daniel moved all-in, covering him by a good margin.  This was clearly not what he'd had in mind...a mutter of "putain!" and some of the angriest chip riffling I have ever seen later and he passed, giving the 7k+ pot to the young Danish player and now his seat is empty.

Blinds are still just 100/200 ante 25...

Down to 56, Farouk Bensalem sent to the sidlines by Stephane Lering.

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Adolfo Vaeza is also OUT, pushing on a 6h 8s Ts Flop with Ac Td but being picked off by Eric Larchveque's Ks Kh.

Turn = 3s

River = 5h

Wow, that was literally seconds for the bok to kick in - he was all-in against Jan Boubli with 9s 9h on a Tc 5c 4s flop just now - in poor shape against Jan's 5h 5s.  The turn and the river didn't make a difference and a huge pot (55k or so) makes its way down the table Mr. Boubli.

Meanwhile David Redling is up to around 50k himself after his Kc Ks got all in against the Jh Jd of M. Kagawa.  A low, mainly club board knocked the latter down to just 2,625 while bumping the former up to a table-leading stack.

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H Kakoun is OUT and has inevitably headed towards the "I'm out of the Main Event" cash games.

Blinds up to 200/400 ante 25.

We have heard that this will be the last level played today, so that's an hour and a half...
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Double through for Patric Martensson courtesy of Henri Boutboul.  I am going to assume that Henri raised preflop and Patric called in position, for the time being, but you really never know...

Anyway, flop:  3s 7s 2s - this was where semi-short-stacked Patric raised all-in, and it was called - his 8s 8d on their backs before Henri counted out the 8k or so and called, with Ac Ahrt.  The turn brought the 9s and the pot was already sliding over towards Martensson... he reacted with the same apparent indifference as usual (pictured here right after doubling through), while Boutboul was clearly a little chagrined but not at the table-banging stage quite yet.

Leaderwatch:

Jan Boubli     70,500
Sorel Mizzi         68,000
David Redlin      66,000
Ram Vaswani    64,500
Freddy Deeb      58,000   (having just eliminated Ahmed Debabeche)
Karsten Johansen  55,000

Patrick Schull has doubled up off Noel Gaens with Tens v Threes, harmless Q-5-7-7-8 board.

Righteo, as we move into the last several minutes, it looks like these guys are you current Billy Big Bollox, with Freddie Deeb and Eric Cajelais leading the chasing pack with 53,500 and 48,225 respectively.

Ram Vaswani -- 74,300
David Redlin -- 72,850
Jan Boubli -- 70,200
Sorel Mizzi -- 68,875
Karsten Johansen -- 60,825

James Witkowski is OUT.

All-in for his last 5k on a board of Qs 3c Qh Kc, he was swiftly called by Vivian Anseline.

"Have you got a Queen?" pleaded a concerned Witowski, simultaneously reluctant to reveal his cards until knowing where he stood.

Without answering verbally, Vivian turned over Qc Jh, dominating James' Qd 8h.

"Seven!" calls Vivian.

Spookily, and rather suspiciously, the River bring the 7s.

"Almost an Eight," says Deeb.

"It's not fair, he's psychic," shouts an onlooker.

Georges Tervol -- 12,625
Vivian Anseline -- 53,400
Ram Vaswani -- 76,975
Eric Koskas -- 31,550
David Redlin -- 72,475
Yevgeniy Timoshenko -- 13,500
Freddie Deeb -- 50,400
Vikash Dhorasso -- 16,175
Remy Biechel -- 18,375
Alain Layani -- 25,900
Karten Johansen -- 52,250
Adrion Gavile -- 31,675
Pascal Perrault -- 24,125
Will Ma -- 38,100
Eric Larcheveque -- 41,375
Xavier Detournel -- 28,725
Carlos Da Silva -- 33,375
Russell Carson -- 32,425
Noel Gaens -- 52,650
Jason Lester -- 24,975
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 20,325
Patrick Schull -- 20,475
Sorel Mizzi -- 69,075
Patric Martensson -- 3,475
Eric Cajelais -- 35,500
Ramzi Jelassi -- 21,125
Peter Politis -- 38,325
Szawomir Rypiniski  9,475
Mats Iremark -- 15,525
Jeff Wallace -- 64,025
Peter Gould -- 34,200
Paul Gourlay -- 24,925
Nikolas Liakos -- 39,100
Patrick Bueno -- 6,500
Clement Amagat -- 18,150
Guillaume Darcourt -- 19,950
Ray Coburn -- 11,200
Antoine Chuzeville -- 24,725
Imad Derwiche -- 12,175
Daniel Bertelsen -- 14,150
Jan Boubli -- 71,975
Christophe Cabras -- 43,125
Runar Runarsson -- 51,525