With plenty of chips in the pot already until the turn, Mohamed Ali Houssam bet 10,000 and Suat Uyanik shoved for 30,000 chips on top of that. Houssam called with for the nut flush draw while Uyanik held . Sure enough the dealer burned and turned the as final community card and that gave Houssam the big boost in chips.
The former big stack of Cheng-Wei Yin has melted and he was just all in for the remainder of it with the . Peter Reil looked him up with and despite many outs for the Belgian, the board ran out blank with .
A portion of Yin's stack had previously switched over to Romain Paon.
"I haven't had quads in seven months and now I have busted three players with quads here." Those were the words of Sonny Franco, who just sent table neighbor Erwann Pecheux to the rail. It turns out that Franco had raised to 1,900 from under the gun and picked up one caller. Pecheux then made it 6,000 from the big blind and Franco called with pocket fours.
On the flop with two diamonds, Pecheux checked as did Franco. On the turn, Pecheux check-called a bet worth 9,500 and then check-called all in for around 28,000 with pocket aces on the river to see the bad news.
With now 59 reentries, more than 25 percent of the field on Day 1 consists of multiple bullets. The screens show 209 entries for now and Guillaume Diaz may reenter before the end of the dinner break still after having just bust for the third time.
Picking up the action with a bet of 6,500 in front of Said El Yousfi on the button, it folded back to Rui Miguel da Silva who made it 18,500 from the cutoff. El Yousfi called and they headed to the flop . The Portuguese continued for 12,200 and was called before shoving the turn.
El Yousfi was covered and eventually elected to fold a few minutes before the end of the level. Da Silva also claimed the next hand still after firing two barrels with on a board of before checking down he river. His sole opponent mucked the and da Silva grabbed another.
In the last hand of the level, [Removed:215] raised and picked up four callers to a flop of . Groppi's continuation bet worth 8,500 was just called by Selim Oulmekki from one seat over and the former big stack called as well on the turn. The river slowed down Groppi and he checked before calling the shove of Oulmekki.
Groppi's scored a big double, as Oulmekki only had the for an open-ended straight draw that made sixes and sevens on the river.
The remaining players have been sent into a 60-minute dinner break. Registration as well as reentry remains available until the first card of level 10 is dealt.