Konstantinos Nanos opened the action from early position for 1,000 and Sergio Aido made the call. Fabrice Galardini raised to 3,000 and just Aido made the call.
The flop was and Aido check-called a bet of 4,000. On the turn Aido check-raised a bet of 8,000 to 16,000. Galardini made the call and they both checked the river .
Aido showed and a distraught Galardini showed .
Looking on, Alex Goulder teased him, “You can’t lose. That’s so lucky.” Aido just grinned back at him.
We arrived to find Team PokerStars Online Pro Gabriel Nassif and Paulino Subtil heads up with a completed board of . With about 9,000 already in the middle, Subtil reached for chips and flicked 2,500 into the middle.
Nassif thought for some time before dropping out a call. He hovered his cards over the middle of the table, instantly ready to muck his hand. Fortunately for Nassif, Subtil did not table his hand immediately either.
In the end, Subtil showed which was beaten by Nassif's . Nassif won the pot and now has about 77,000 in chips.
After a three-way flop of , Johnny Nedved bet 5,000 and was called only by Benjamin Souriau. The Belgian also continued with another barrel on the turn, worth 9,000. Souriau tossed in two T-5,000 chips for the call and was then given a check by Nedved on the river.
Souriau made it 9,000 and called the check-raise of Nedved to 21,000 with , the Belgian only had .
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier tells us how Deauville always excites him, and how he's planning on doing lots of streaming on Twitch this year.
John Eames is the proud new owner of some new high denomination chips, but unfortunately one of the fan favorites was the one supplying them.
Eames told us he eliminated Steven Watts in a hand where he (Eames) had queens against (Watts) on a board of . Two pair for Watts, but he was drawing dead at the point the chips went to the middle.
Eames is sitting on a comfortable stack of 65,000, Watts has hit the rail.
Ludovic Geilich shoved his short stack of 5,725 chips in with and was called by an opponent on the button with . The board ran out and the Scotsman is still alive. One more double up and he would be even bag around starting stack.
On the flop, Justas Semaska bet 1,800 and was called by one opponent to see the on the turn. The Lithuanian checked and his opponent took advantage of the perfect scare card in order to take away the pot with a bet of 4,000. Semaska gave up this hand but is still sitting on an above-average stack.