The board of was already complete and Tatiana Barausova had checked out of the big blind. There were 10,000 chips in the pot and her opponent in seat two checked behind to see Barausova turn over . The opponent checked his cards and Ludovic Riehl saw one of them before they got mucked. Pierre Morin insisted to the dealer that "show one show all" applies and the dealer flipped over for the inferior straight.
Jan Heitmann opened the action for 650 and it folded to big blind Pierre Neuville who wasn’t getting bullied by the Team PokerStars Pro and three-bet to 1,900.
Heitmann responded with a four-bet to 4,500. Neuville looked back at his cards several times before showing the and letting him have it.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov got his remaining stack of 20,000 chips in preflop with pocket kings after a raising war with Benjamin Souriau. Unfortunately, his opponent had the only better pocket pair and would hold up after a blank board.
There was an open to 700 from the player under the gun when Candido Goncalves three-bet to 1,700 and Andres Nadal then moved all in for his last 9,000. Louis Linard was in the big blind and he took a few moments before he made the call. When the original raiser folded Goncalves responded with an all-in of his own for just over 20,000 more. Back to Linard who made the call and we had a three way all in with Linard covering both players.
Nadal had and rose from his seat. Linard tabled with little enthusiasm and Goncalves had the old .
The cards fell and Goncalves spiked the turn to win a big pot, eliminate one player and chop Linard down to size.
Kevin MacPhee grinded online and then took the train from Amsterdam to Deauville today, immediately jumping into the tournament after his arrival. Another regular on the circuit that took advantage of the late registration, which lasts all day long, is Ognjen Sekularac.
Meet Dan Wilson, the Irishman holds a PhD in Astrophysics but is taking a break from academia to pursue poker as a career. The PokerStars Blog reports.
Action folded around to Laurent Strouk who limped from the cutoff. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier followed suit from the button and it folded over the big blind. He checked his option and the flop came down . The big blind checked again, prompting Strouk to fire out 700. Grospellier called and the big blind folded, leaving the duo heads up to the turn.
The dealer put out the on fourth street and Strouk dropped out another bet for the same amount - 700. Grospellier called one more time and the finished off the board. Strouk bet 2,500, Grospellier let it go, and Strouk took down the pot. He now has about 43,500 in chips while Grospellier's stack has fallen to around 48,000.
Sabina Hiatullah finished second in the EPT Deauville Ladies Event and she came up with a creative idea to scare away the men that entered. Ultimately Hiatullah herself wasn't too bothered by her male competitors saying that they were not good players anyway.