An enormous pile of chips was in the middle as Michel Dattani was all in for around 950,000 from the cutoff and up against Gaelle Baumann in early position, who had him covered.
Michel Dattani:
Gaelle Baumann:
The board ran out and Baumann was the beneficiary of the massive cooler as she now sits with more than 2,000,000 chips. Dattani, meanwhile, saw his tournament come to an end in a cruel fashion.
Florin Pandilica had gotten his stack of approximately 220,000 in from the small blind and was at risk against Jerwin Pasco on the button.
Florin Pandilica:
Jerwin Pasco:
Pandilica was in great shape with his cowboys, although the flop provided a sweat. The spiked the turn to leave Pandilica needing the case king, but the completed the board to eliminate him on the tough beat.
In a hand that made the table go nuts, Ibrahim Aksu opened from the cutoff and Benjamin Pollak three-bet jammed a stack of around 350,000 from the small blind.
Said Chegdane then went into the tank for over a minute in the big blind before folding, while Aksu called with a bigger stack. Ahead of the runout, Chegdane said he made a big laydown with jacks.
Benjamin Pollak:
Ibrahim Aksu:
Chegdane had apparently made the right laydown and the flop came , which would have given him a set to still be behind the set of Cowboys of Aksu. However, the board then finished out and Chegdane stared with glazed-over eyes at the board that would've given him quads.
Someone at the table attempted to grab the muck to see if Chegdane had indeed folded jacks before the dealer stopped them. But Chegdane's face said it all.
"I believe him. He looks like he wants to kill himself!" exclaimed Giuliano Bendinelli.
In the middle of all the excitement, Pollak quietly hit the rail.
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Stephen Kehoe bet 35,000 from the big blind on a flop of and was called by Ibrahim Aksu in the cutoff and small blind Jimmy Guerrero.
The turn came the and Kehoe bet another 135,000. Aksu quickly folded, but Guerrero, chewing on a toothpick, cut out the chips to call before slowly sliding them forward.
The came on the river and this time Guerrero gathered three stacks of blue 5,000 chips and pushed them in the middle, a bet totaling 280,000. Kehoe didn't take long before he mucked.