One table, two hands… one new chip leader

  • Level: 22
  • Small Blind: 8K
  • Big Blind: 16K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 403.2K
  • Remaining: 74
  • Entries: 1492


  • The action continues to move very quickly and in the course of two hands on what was perhaps the most stacked table left in the event a new chip leader has emerged with a truly massive stack of over 1.5M.

    In the first hand, Luigi Fantigrossi lost one of the leading stacks in the tournament to Yannick Lamarre-Delooz in a nightmarish (for Luigi) board runout. Preflop, Yannick raised from UTG to 32K (a min raise) and it folded around to Luigi in the Big Blind, who called. The flop came Ace of Hearts King of Diamonds 7 of Diamonds and with Luigi holding Ace of Diamonds 7 of Hearts and Yannick holding King of Spades King of Hearts what followed was inevitable. Luigi checked, Yannick bet 25K and then Luigi shoved his big 720K chip stack over the top. Yannick called holding the set and even managed to improve to quads when the King came on the turn.

    The table was still settling down from that excitement when Yannick got involved in another hand with another player with an above-average stack – this time, Ryan Levine was the victim.

    On the hand there was a min-raise and a call pre flop, which came Queen of Hearts 5 of Hearts Queen of Spades. Ryan made a small c-bet that Yannick called. The turn fell 3 of Spades – and with Ryan holding 3 of Clubs 3 of Diamonds, he quickly shoved holding a turned full house. Yannick called immediately – unfortunately for Ryan, the boat wasn’t good against Yannick’s flopped quad Queens!

    Yannick has moved into the clear chip lead with over 1.5M.

    Yannick Lammare-Delooz