Slowly but surely the field size is approaching 200 entries with players busting out and purchasing another bullet. The most recent seat open included Abdenbi Abida, Mohamed Mamouni, Thierry Gogniat as well as Rebecca Gerin and it remains to be seen whether or not they will join the action again until the end of level nine.
On the flop, the opponent of Gilles Huet bet 5,700 and Huet then moved all in for 31,600 to enforce a fold.
A few tables over, former big stack Herve Santais is missing a lot of chips and they must have moved two spots to the left. Riccardo Giacalone appears to be the new chip leader with what looks like 130,000.
Liece El Berrak was upset after his bluff attempt had just gone wrong. On the turn, El Berrak had raised to 6,800 and Henrique de Oliveira called with only 14,000 chips behind. The river saw El Berrak moving in and de Oliveira eventually called with the to see his opponent flip over for a missed straight draw.
"How can you call there?" a stunned El Berrak let out. The same table also features 2011 WPT Marrakech champion Mohamed Ali Houssam, who increased his stack nicely.
Half a dozen players busted early into level seven and among them were also Sebastien Compte, Tristan Forge and Gregory Janin. With now 176 entries, 32 of them represent multiple bullets and the average has reached 88 big blinds.
Just now, Jerome Sgorrano raised to 1,000 and then flashed the first before also revealing the to claim the pot. That was exactly the hand his opponent held in the last hand before the break when Sgorrano raised from under the gun with .
Dominique Terzian also defended his blind blind and they saw a three-way flop of . Both opponents called a bet worth 1,500 by Sgorrano before the Belgian then fired 3,500 on the turn. The third player in the hand raised to 8,000 with 12,000 behind and Terzian folded whereas Sgorrano then shoved with his two pair.
The opponent called off with ace-queen and the river blanked.
The second 15-minute break has just started and the players are heading out of the tournament room. There may not be as much sun left anymore past 6 p.m. local time, but the birds are chirping outside and the temperature is around 25 degrees.
Rebecca Gerin and Sonny Franco entered without being noticed until now whereas Paul-Francois Tedeschi bought back in after having been eliminated an hour ago.