Victoria Coren-Mitchell checked it over to Rob Strong on the river of a board reading .
There was already 20,000 in the middle and Stong made a bet of 9,000. Coren-Mitchell, as she likes to do, started talking it through out loud, vacillating between calling and folding, counting out the chips in recognition of the significance of the bet to her stack. Summing up her torment Coren-Mitchell said, “My better nature is battling with my curiosity.”
Better nature won in the end and Coren-Mitchell folded to keep the chips in her stack. The dissection of the hand went on for several more minutes with Strong seemingly admitting that he had a ten in his hand.
To be honest, we're not entirely sure what has happened, but Guillaume Darcourt claims to have around 300,000. We weren't able to exactly count the huge stack of Darcourt as he has several towers with different heights, but the Frenchman who started the day as chipleader does have a lot of chips, that's for sure.
One of our French colleagues told us a hand where Julien Brécard opened and one player called. Darcourt called with from the small blind and checked to Brécard on . The French Team Pro checked and the third player took the lead betting 5,000. Darcourt made the call, Brécard folded. Darcourt check called another 9,000 on the turn and 18,000 on the river. Darcourt's opponent mucked and Darcourt took it down.
Damien Lhommeau opened to 2,500 from the button and called the three-bet of Remi Castaignon to 5,800, witnessing a heads-up flop of . A continuation bet by Castaignon was called and Lhommeau then raised the turn from 12,800 to 40,000 with only little behind to commit himself.
Castaignon shoved with and Lhommeau was drawing dead with . The river didn't matter anymore and one of the three remaining EPT Deauville champions is suddenly among the biggest stacks in the room. Other notables that busted were Ihar Soika and Erwann Pecheux.
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The completed board read and Bart Lybaert checked over to PokerStars Team Online Pro Vicente Delgado on the button. Delgado reached for chips and cut out a river bet of 10,400.
Lybaert went into the tank for some time before moving forward a call. Delgado tabled for top pair with top kicker. This was enough to win the pot as Lybaert tossed his cards into the muck. Delgado pulled the pot and now has about 65,000 to his name.
Jake Cody was moved over to table 9 and just squeezed a raise to 2,200 and a call, making a three-bet to 7,000. Both opponents checked to the EPT champion and the flop got checked through. Cody was given the opportunity to make a delayed continuation bet on the and did just that to take down the pot with a bet of 7,500.
One table over, Martins Adeniya spotted his friend and came over for a quick check. Adeniya has almost doubled up his stack already.
Evangelos Tsaris raised to 2,200 and Jean Pierre Didier made it 5,100 to go before the Greek four-bet to 16,500. Didier pushed and was snap-called by Tsaris with . Didier was in desperate shape with and the board ran out .
Didier was all in with his short stack one hand later and got a lucky chop with against the of Roman Korenev.
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After a flop of , things escalated between Thomas Butzhammer and Ludovic Geilich. The Scotsman check-raised from 2,000 to 5,600 and then pushed with the superior stack after Butzhammer had made it 11,000 to go. Butzhammer called with pocket queens and Geilich couldn't get there with his monster draw of .
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from the small blind and checked to Brécard on 
turn and 18,000 on the 
river. Darcourt's opponent mucked and Darcourt took it down.
. A continuation bet by Castaignon was called and Lhommeau then raised the 
turn from 12,800 to 40,000 with only little behind to commit himself.
. The river didn't matter anymore and one of the three remaining EPT Deauville champions is suddenly among the biggest stacks in the room. Other notables that busted were Ihar Soika and Erwann Pecheux.
and Bart Lybaert checked over to PokerStars Team Online Pro Vicente Delgado on the button. Delgado reached for chips and cut out a river bet of 10,400.
for top pair with top kicker. This was enough to win the pot as Lybaert tossed his cards into the muck. Delgado pulled the pot and now has about 65,000 to his name.
and did just that to take down the pot with a bet of 7,500.
. Didier was in desperate shape with 
and the board ran out 
against the 
of Roman Korenev.
, things escalated between Thomas Butzhammer and Ludovic Geilich. The Scotsman check-raised from 2,000 to 5,600 and then pushed with the superior stack after Butzhammer had made it 11,000 to go. Butzhammer called with pocket queens and Geilich couldn't get there with his monster draw of 
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