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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 |
|---|---|
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
Shai Arbel| 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
Kyle Bao DiepAlmost 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
Tom VerbruggenA 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 |
|---|---|
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) |











