Michael Benvenuti moved his last 260,000 chips into the middle from the cutoff with . Darryl Ronconi was in the big blind and woke up with . The board ran out and Benvenuti's day ended just like that.
From the cutoff seat, Christian Kruel raised to 125,000, and Antonin Teisseire three-bet shoved with his covering stack. Kruel thought it over, and he was more or less committed to his . Teisseire flipped over the ol' , and he had Kruel five cards from the door.
The flop was a bit of a sweat for Kruel, but the turn left him drawing dead. He was already packing up by the time the river landed, and he's been eliminated in 18th place.
After the hand, Antonin Teisseire got a pretty stern warning about speaking in French during play, and the disruption even led to a couple of his railbird friends being asked to leave the room.
Darryl Ronconi opened to 55,000 from late position, and Jim Routos three-bet to 125,000. In the small blind, Arnaud Esquevin cold four-bet to 250,000. That folded Ronconi out of the way, but Routos made the call to see a flop.
It came out , and Esquevin slowed down now with a check. Routos took his cue to fire 230,000 at the pot, and Esquevin folded showing .
Mikhail Yakovlev raised to 40,000 on the button, and Yann Enzinger three-bet to 85,000 from the small blind. Yakovlev called, and they took a flop. Enzinger took the lead, betting out all in for just about 200,000. Yakovlev snap-called with his big stack and a chance at the knockout.
Showdown
Yakovlev:
Enzinger:
Enzinger had flopped top pair, but he was drawing dead to runner-runner against the straight of Yakovlev. The turn was one of those runners, opening the door a crack as Enzinger tried to run down a full house. He could not, though, and the river ends his day in 19th place.
Vanessa Peng raised under the gun to 33,000. Arnaud Esquevin was in the big blind and it had folded around to him when he raised to 90,000. Peng threw in a four-bet to 158,000 before Esquevin announced he was risking all of his chips.Peng folded and falls to 540,000 while Esquivin gets to 750,000.
Mike Fosco opened to 35,000 from the cutoff seat, and Bruno Lopes three-bet to 85,000. Fosco shoved on him with the covering stack, and Lopes called for his tournament life with . Fosco's was racing for the knockout.
And the knockout he would get. The board came . and Lopes could not get over the hump. He's out in 20th place, and Fosco stacks his chips to climb close to 700,000. We'll give him 690,000.
We joined the action on a flop as Arnaud Esquevin was betting 76,000 into a pot of over 100,000. Darryl Ronconi called on the button, and Pierre Neuville check-raised to 176,000 total. That folded Esquevin, but Ronconi flatted to see the on the turn. It went check-check there, and the filled out the board on the river. Neuville took his cue to fire again, sliding out 100,000 straight. Ronconi quickly called, and Neuville tabled for two pair. It was no good. The of Ronconi had made a wheel, and that pot pushes him back into the top spot with 1.55 million.
Neuville is now in short-stacked territory with about 280,000 chips left.
Isaac Baron shoved from the small blind with , and big blind Mikhail Yakovlev found to call off his last 230,000 with.
The board came running , and the lowly threes hold to double Yakovlev up to 472,000. Baron could afford that hit, but it does knock him down a peg to about 725,000.