Benoit Lord opened to 40,000 from utg, and found calls from 3 players on the table. Everyone checked on the 
flop. When the turn brought the 
, Benoit slid forward a bet of 155K, and went into the tank once Nicholas Pitre announced all-in. He finally made the call for his tournament life, tabling 
. Nicholas tabled a trailing 
, and couldn’t improve on the 
river.
Benoit found a full double-up of his 513K, plus the nearly 200K already in the pot, which propelled him amongst the chip-leaders. Nicholas was left with a little over 120K behind, which he lost 2 hands later to the hands of Michael Malm.
Players are now into level 24 with 43 remaining.
