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2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes
€8,500 Cannes Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes
Buy-in
$12,300
Entries
480
Level
31
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
15,000
On a board showing
, the eldest Mizrachi brother check-called a 25,000 bet from Nkoa. The river brought the 
and Mizrachi check-called another Nkoa bet, this time for 100,000.At the showdown, Nkoa tabled a pocket pair of eights and was one-upped by Mizrachi who revealed pocket tens.
The pot hoisted Robert past Patrice Sitbon into the overall tournament chip lead with 890,000.
. Patrice Sitbon checks to his opponent, and Willy Korchia moves all in for 188,100. Sitbon goes deep into the think tank, pondering his options as he counts his chips and re-checks his cards. After five minutes or more, he finally says, "Okay," as he pushes the call into the middle.Korchia tables his
, and it's the leading hand versus Sitbon's 
. The turn and river fail to find Sitbon, coming 
and respectively. Sitbon grants another double up, and finds himself bleeding chips here in the early going. He has fallen all the way back into the 300,000-chip range after starting the day as the commanding chip leader.
. He is looked up by his opponent, showing down and putting Liger in serious danger of being eliminated.Much to his chagrin, the board runs out dry for him, coming
, and sending Stephane Liger to the cashier's desk early to collect his 39th place money.One of the players mixed up in the preflop battle told us he folded pocket tens.
against Hildebranski's 
. The board blanked out king-high and Patryk's ace-queen high was good enough to take down the pot.
Metina will take home $15,693 in prize money for his efforts.
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 600
Short-stacked, Dymling moved all in over the top of a preflop raise made by Sitbon holding
. Sitbon made the call and tabled 
.The
appeared in the door and Dymling conceded defeat with a shrug of his shoulders and watched the rest of the board blank out 
. Dymling will take home $15,693 for his efforts.
We'll pass on the name as soon as it's made available to us.
The players seem to be right on the edge of comfort, fanning themselves with anything they can find and wiping the sweat off their brows. It remains to be seen if the less-than-ideal temperature affects play at all.
on the button, Patrice Sitbon reraises to 40,000. Next to act is Patryk Hildebranski in the small blind, and he comes back over the top, moving all in for a total of 228,500. The original raiser folds. Sitbon asks for a full count, and as soon as he learns the number, he immediately makes the call. Hildebranski tables 
, and is in bad shape for his tournament life.Patryk looks at the dealer and asks him, "You have an ace, bro?" Sure enough, the dealer obliges and spreads out
on the flop, pushing Hildbranski into the lead. Even better, fourth street is the , locking up the pot and doubling the young player up to about 475,000. "Thank you, mister dealer," he says as he begins to re-stack his chips.Sitbon, meanwhile, has taken two big hits in the last five minutes, and he has fallen back under the half-million mark.