We joined the action on the flop. The board was showing and the two combatants were Mohamed El Hamdi {Mid-position} and Jake Cody {cut-off}. Both players checked and the turn was needed. The dealer gave us the and El Hamdi bet 8,000 and Cody called. The final card was the and El Hamdi repeated his turn bet of 8,000 and Cody called. El Hamdi flipped over and Cody mucked his hand.
From early position, JC Alvarado raised to 2,200. Dmitry Motorov called from the hijack seat and then action fell on Arnaud Mattern in the cutoff. He took his time and three-bet to 7,800. Play folded back over to Alvarado. He took some time of his own and then four-bet to 16,400. Motorov folded and Mattern moved all in.
"Call," was the quick response from Alvarado.
Alvarado:
Mattern:
The flop, turn and river ran out and Alvarado earned the double up. He's over 100,000 while Mattern lost roughly half of his stack.
We're pretty sure about this one. Tristan Wade has just walked past us and out the door with all of his belongings in tow. A quick check on his table finds no signs of his former chip stack. We're not sure how it happened, but Wade has apparently gone from average to out this level.
Despite this Day 2 bust, it's been quite a successful trip to Cannes for the American. Just a few days ago, "Cre8ive" won his first WSOP bracelet by outlasting a tough field in the €3,200 Shootout, and he'll have to be content with winning just that one on this vacation.
Another erroneous bust-out. We were told that Max Silver was eliminated a short while ago, but we've just stumbled across him in the dead center of the room. He's most certainly not out, and in fact, he's got about twice the average stack.
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Seated on the feature table are Bryan Devonshire, Ben Lamb, Matt Waxman, Jen Harman, Jeff Hakim, Jon Turner and Brian Roberts.
Contrary to what the floor team think Casey Kastle has not been eliminated. We assume they thought he was dead hence the removal from the chip posts, but we can confirm he is actually just asleep.
Under the gun, Antony Lellouche opened with a raise, and he found calls from Hoyt Corkins and Nenad Medic, the latter coming along from the big blind.
The three men checked through the flop, and Medic led out with 4,900 on the turn. Lellouche called, Corkins folded, and the river brought the . Medic bet again -- 11,700 this time -- but his opponent wanted to play for more. The crafty Lellouche raised to 24,500, and Medic spent a long soak in the tank before reluctantly making the call.
Lellouche tabled for the flush, and Medic couldn't beat it.
Brian Hastings and the player across from him both got their stacks of ~15,000 into the middle preflop, and Hastings' was racing against his opponent's .
The board ran , and Hastings kings were the winner. When the stacks were counted down, he had his opponent's 14,700-chip stack just barely covered, and he's essentially doubled up through that KO.
Rifat Palevic has been very active today, a gameplan that much easier to install when you have close to 300 big blinds.
In the last pot, Palevic (small blind) and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (big blind) called a preflop raise from Jake Cody. Timo wouldn't end up factoring in the hand any further, but Cody continued out with another 2,900 on the flop. Palevic check-raised to 7,700, and Cody studied carefully before calling.
The turn came the , and Palevic kept the heat on with another bet of 11,300. Cody deliberated for another couple minutes, but he eventually slipped his cards into the muck.
and the two combatants were Mohamed El Hamdi {Mid-position} and Jake Cody {cut-off}. Both players checked and the turn was needed. The dealer gave us the 
and El Hamdi bet 8,000 and Cody called. The final card was the 
and El Hamdi repeated his turn bet of 8,000 and Cody called. El Hamdi flipped over 
and Cody mucked his hand.
and Alvarado earned the double up. He's over 100,000 while Mattern lost roughly half of his stack.
flop, and Medic led out with 4,900 on the 
turn. Lellouche called, Corkins folded, and the river brought the 
. Medic bet again -- 11,700 this time -- but his opponent wanted to play for more. The crafty Lellouche raised to 24,500, and Medic spent a long soak in the tank before reluctantly making the call.
for the flush, and Medic couldn't beat it.
, and Hastings kings were the winner. When the stacks were counted down, he had his opponent's 14,700-chip stack just barely covered, and he's essentially doubled up through that KO.
and Antonius bet 3,000. Hoang raised to 7,000 and Antonius called.
and Hoang the 
, and Palevic kept the heat on with another bet of 11,300. Cody deliberated for another couple minutes, but he eventually slipped his cards into the muck.