Thorel Eliminates Greenwood to Take the Lead

Luc Greenwood was stood up from the table, and all his chips were being passed over to Jean-Noel Thorel after a pot which gave the latter the overall chip lead.

James Romero was happy to talk us through the action. Greenwood had raised from under the gun and called a three-bet from Thorel, who was in the small blind, and the flop came down . Thorel made a pot size-bet and Greenwood called, and the turn was the . Thorel then bet around a third of the pot and Greenwood moved all in for 140,000 which Thorel called.

Thorel held , and Greenwood was behind with no diamonds.

The river was the and was no help to Greenwood who exited as Thorel, who came second in the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller two days ago for €703,000, moved up to 390,000.