Fabrice Soulier opened for a raise in middle position, and Chris Vitch made it three bets in the cutoff. Soulier called, seeing a flop. He check-called a bet. Both checked the turn and the made it all low cards on the board. Soulier came out with a bet, but Vitch mucked.
In the battle of the blinds, Ron Ware and Mike Ross heated up on the flop where Ross bet-three-bet in position. Ware called and they went to the turn.
After all the gunshots on the flop, the turn street remained quiet as both Ware and Ross checked.
The river , however, brought the fire again. The script was the same as on the flop. Ware checked to Ross who bet and three-bet after getting raised. Ware called only to see Ross' for the stone-cold nuts with the ace-high flush.
Christopher Sensoli completed last to act with , and Ryan Himes defended with . It was Himes catching small cards throughout though, and he took the lead on fourth street and bet every street.
Sensoli: //
Himes: //
Himes bet the end, and Sensoli looked pained.
"How many times can I have a flush draw and a massive low draw and miss?"
He said he was trying to decide whether to call 30,000 of his remaining 31,000 with ace-high. In the end, he decided to fold.
Moments later, he got his remaining chips in against Ron Ware. Ware's board ran out for nines up, and Sensoli was drawing dead on the end with just ace-high, making a useless pair of kings on his final card.
Christopher Vitch keeps his foot firmly on the pedal, constantly increasing his chip stack. After knocking out Alex Luneau, he found yet another French player to battle with, fellow bracelet winner Fabrice Soulier.
Vitch limped from the small blind and Soulier made it 24,000 to go. Vitch decided to look at the flop, so he paid the offered price to see the hit the felt.
The action went check-check, so the dealer revealed the on the turn where Soulier pulled out a delayed continuation-bet worth 29,000. Vitch check-called.
The river was the , an interesting card that paired up the board and completed the club flush draw. Vitch didn't wait for Soulier and rather bet himself, sliding forward 16 pinks chips worth 80,000 total. Soulier took over a minute before he finally called.
Vitch opened for fours full to take down the pot. He's now sitting on more than 800,000.
On a flop of , Ryan Himes bet 15,000 in the small blind and Ron Ware called in the big. Both checked the , and Ware bet 30,000on the river. Himes folded and Ware claimed to have flopped a boat with ace-deuce afterwards.
Alexandre Luneau doubled twice but his rise back to contention was halted right after that. Luneau lost a big pot to Sachin Bhargava when he completed and then called Bhargava's raise. Luneau called on the fourth street and raised on the fifth before betting on the sixth. The seventh street was checked through but Luneau couldn't beat Bhargava's aces up.
Alex Luneau: / /
Sachin Bhargava: / /
Luneau was short again and he lost all of his remaining chips in the very next hand when he raised after Chris Vitch had completed.
"Alright, let's get it in again," said Vitch and Luneau obliged.
Alex Luneau: / /
Chris Vitch: / /
Vitch received back some of earlier lost chips, raking in Luneau's remaining 47,500. Luneau left the table with the ninth-place prize, earning $10,144 for his efforts.
While one French player left the table, another arrived as Fabrice Soulier came from the other side of the feature table set up at Brasilia Room so the play would carry on with four players on each table.
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flop. He check-called a bet. Both checked the 
turn and the 
made it all low cards on the board. Soulier came out with a bet, but Vitch mucked.
where Ross bet-three-bet in position. Ware called and they went to the 
turn.
, however, brought the fire again. The script was the same as on the flop. Ware checked to Ross who bet and three-bet after getting raised. Ware called only to see Ross' 
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for nines up, and Sensoli was drawing dead on the end with just ace-high, making a useless pair of kings on his final card.
, no help to Ware.
, Ryan Himes bet 15,000 in the small blind and Ron Ware called in the big. Both checked the 
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