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Michael Gordon Smith Bad Beats Hugue Girard's Aces
Bad way to go for Hugue Girard with A♣ A♥ on hand. Following a button raise of 10,000 by Michael Smith, big blind Girard three-bets 29,000, Smith four-bet shoves and Girard snap-calls. Smith shows J♥ J♣ . The board runs a nasty Q♣ 6♥ J♠ J♦ 4♠ to bad beat aces with quads jacks.
Player | Chips |
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MS Michael Smith | 330,000(66 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | busted |
Hugues Girard On the Comeback
Shai Arbel raises to 15,000 from the small blind and Hugues Girard calls from the big blind. Both invest 10,000 on the 6♥ 5♠ 3♣ flop and Arbel check-calls for 25,000 on the Q♦ turn.
Arbel checks the T♠ river and reluctantly folds when Girard bets 35,000.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
SA Shai Arbel | 380,000(76 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 175,000(35 BB) |
Updated Counts in the Field

Player | Chips |
---|---|
SA Shai Arbel | 450,000(113 BB) |
TB Thi Bao Nguyen | 430,000(108 BB) |
KT Krisztian Torok | 380,000(95 BB) |
MH Micha Hoedemaker | 300,000(75 BB) |
YL Yongjia Lin | 275,000(69 BB) |
HT Hun Tae Choi | 270,000(68 BB) |
YC Yita Choong | 250,000(63 BB) |
CW Chien Wang | 220,000(55 BB) |
HC Hon Cheong Lee | 210,000(53 BB) |
PN Pradeep Nudurumati | 210,000(53 BB) |
NC Nevan Chang | 200,000(50 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 195,000(49 BB) |
AI Abhinav Iyer | 175,000(44 BB) |
JS Josip Simunic | 170,000(43 BB) |
FR Fabian Rolli | 130,000(33 BB) |
FG Fabian Gumz | 130,000(33 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 120,000(30 BB) |
AA Anil Adiani | 120,000(30 BB) |
KL Kolja Luecking | 110,000(28 BB) |
NQ Nang Quang Nguyen | 90,000(23 BB) |
NC Nabil Cardoso | 80,000(20 BB) |
Shai Arbel Among Big Stacks; Kyle Bao Diep Also Rises

Almost all of the chips of Hugues Girard shifted to Shai Arbel.
Guy Taylor then vanishes from the table when he cannot call a river shove by Kyle Bao Diep on the T♥ 9♣ 3♠ J♣ 8♦ river, suspecting a bluff. "Oh no worries, if it's a bluff he will put it on his stories," the Brit jokes and busts the next hand.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
SA Shai Arbel | 400,000(133 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 185,000(62 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 38,000(13 BB) |
GT Guy Taylor | busted |
Tom Verbruggen Leads the Field at the Break with 320,500

A scan of the field during the break turned up seven players with at least 185K in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:
Player | Chips |
---|---|
TV Tom Verbruggen | 320,500(160 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 233,500(117 BB) |
LY Lin Yu | 233,500(117 BB) |
IK Ivan Karatayeu | 228,500(114 BB) |
AS Arun Sriram | 202,500(101 BB) |
MS Muhammad Shamsudin | 199,500(100 BB) |
SO Shiina Okamoto | 188,500(94 BB) |
GS Georgios Skarparis | 184,900(92 BB) |
Updated Counts in the Field
Player | Chips |
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LY Lin Yu | 220,000(138 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 210,000(131 BB) |
MK Michael Kim Falcon | 150,000(94 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 110,000(69 BB) |
CW Chien Wang | 95,000(59 BB) |
FR Fabian Rolli | 95,000(59 BB) |
KB Koen Breed | 95,000(59 BB) |
KL Kolja Luecking | 80,000(50 BB) |
GS Georgios Skarparis | 75,000(47 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 75,000(47 BB) |
JS Josip Simunic | 75,000(47 BB) |
TL Tero Laurila | 70,000(44 BB) |
MJ Marc Joseph | 65,000(41 BB) |
HC Hon Cheong Lee | 55,000(34 BB) |
KH Konstantin Held | 45,000(28 BB) |
DK David Kozma | 17,000(11 BB) |
Updated Counts and Casualties
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HG Hugues Girard | 220,000(220 BB) |
MS Muhammad Shamsudin | 130,000(130 BB) |
130,000(130 BB) | |
MK Michael Kim Falcon | 125,000(125 BB) |
AR Aladin Reskallah | 120,000(120 BB) |
JK Jon Kyte | 115,000(115 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 90,000(90 BB) |
AK Amit Kaushik | 75,000(75 BB) |
AF Adam Friedman | 65,000(65 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 45,000(45 BB) |
MD Max Deveson | 42,000(42 BB) |
RM Remy Murcia | 40,000(40 BB) |
MJ Marc Joseph | 38,000(38 BB) |
YL Yiannis Liperis | 30,000(30 BB) |
AA Arjun Agrawal | busted |
PN Pradeep Nudurumati | busted |
WL Wonho Lee | busted |
Updated Counts and Casualties
Player | Chips |
---|---|
JS Julian Selinger | 115,000(144 BB) |
MG Mark Gruendemann | 105,000(131 BB) |
MH Micha Hoedemaker | 100,000(125 BB) |
90,000(113 BB) | |
GS Guillem Segarra | 70,000(88 BB) |
JZ Joshua Zimmerman | 60,000(75 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 55,000(69 BB) |
LV Laury Vanlerberghe | 55,000(69 BB) |
EL Elena Litvinyuk | 50,000(63 BB) |
TV Tom Verbruggen | 40,000(50 BB) |
WF Wendy Freedman | busted |
ER Erik Rozhynskyi | busted |
TH Trong Hieu Ngo | busted |
Hugues Girard Wins Two In A Row
Following a raise by under the gun player Daniel Skoglund that's called by one player, cutoff Hugues Girard three-bets 7000 and just like, he wins the pot. Girard isn't done yet as he enters the next hand, raising 2000. Big blind Skoglund defends then fast-folds as Girard pulls chips on the flop 2♠ 8♠ J♥ .
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HG Hugues Girard | 66,000(83 BB) |