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.