Not that long ago, Clement Guillot had taken a small hit to his stack when one of the late registrants check-called the turn for 8,000 and then checked the river. Guillot checked behind and was shown the for the nut straight.
However, the player in that seat was then gone and Guillot recalled the action as follows. His previous nemesis apparently four-bet jammed seventy blinds with pocket sevens and ran right into pocket aces.
Fast forward to the current action, Guillot opened to 2,500 and snap-called the shove by Guillaume Tricoire for 17,400.
Guillaume Tricoire:
Clement Guillot:
There was no escape for Tricoire on the board and the rich got even richer, leaving the table three-handed for a few moments.
Ben Khaled Sayfedine raised to 2,600 from under the gun and Ionut Andrei three-bet to 7,500 in the small blind, Sebastien Belot called in the big blind and Sayfedine came along, too. The trio checked the flop and turn. After the river, Andrei bet 10,000 and his two opponents folded.
Dylan Cechowski had recently re-entered and three-bet out of the blinds to get called by the table big stack Juan Diego Ocampo. They headed to the flop on which Cechowski bet 3,500 with 15,000 behind. Ocampo then pushed in a stack of T-5,000 chips and Cechowski quickly folded.
In a battle of the blinds to the turn, Ivan Dominguez Merino check-called a bet worth 7,500 by Omar Del Pino and they both opted to check the on the river. Dominguez Merino announced a pair of tens and tabled the , which Del Pino had beat with the .
During the hand, Del Pino was silent but his usual bubbly self came out moments later as he has been entertaining the table with plenty of banter for the past hour.
Adrian Mateos checked the flop and then called a bet worth 2,500 by Corentin Sala from one seat over. They checked the on the turn and Mateos bet the river for 8,000 with 11,200 behind. Red Diamond player Sala mulled it over for some ten seconds and opted to fold with the far superior stack.
Nemo Israel defended out of the blinds against Johan Creutz and check-called a bet worth 2,000 on the flop. They checked the turn and Israel also checked the river. Creutz then pushed with the far superior stack and Israel was a non-believer, as he eventually called with the . Creutz had that beat with to earn the knockout and bumped fists with a table neighbour.