Philippe D’Auteuil is known to many by his primary online name, takechip, and he has just taken a whole bunch of chips from Florian-Dimitrie Duta – enough to send Duta to the rail for his payout in 19th place.
Duta opened to 1.6M from the hijack only to find a shove from Philippe, who covered him. Action folded back to Duta who reluctantly but without much delay made the call.
Duta:
D’Auteuil:
The flop put Philippe in front: and the turn and river only made it worse (if that were possible) for Duta – .
Eliminations have been coming quickly and the tournament has just now dropped to 16 players and will reduce to 2 tables.