Play has really slowed down now. Stiehler got a double up through Levi with but other than that not much has heppened as every player is desperate to avoid the final table bubble.
Jacob Rasmussen (right) from Denmark is the current chip leader closing in on 1 million in chips.
Stiehler raises to three blinds from under the gun, Fougeron next to him comes over the top all in. The action folds to Rasmusson who clearly laid something big down because of the time it took him to muck. Stiehler calls Fougeron (whose legs were bouncing up and down under the table with excitement)
Fougeron has
Stiehler has
No idea what the board was because several thousand Frenchmen surrounded the table, needless to say the aces held because Fougeron was punching the air and screaming with delight.
Eric Lindberg has suddenly been put under pressure in a disastrous hand. I'm not certain of the preflop action but Nicolas Levi must have attacked his big blind and he defended with . The flop came all clubs.
All the chips flew in and Levi turned over for a flopped flush.
Vincent Sokalski straight pushed all in for over 400,000 on the in the cut off with and was called immediately by Lindberg in the big blind with
Board
Queens full for Lindberg who now sits on over 600,000. Sokalski is crippled and will need to move all in several times in this level to try and survive.
As you can imagine, none of our players are doing anything too crazy so far. There is a table set out in near view with suitcases full of money reminding the players of what awaits them at the final table