Antoine Amourette final tabled this event last year, finishing 9th, and he's looking poised to make another deep run here today. We just caught Amourette winning a hand that has pushed his stack up over 75,000.
We caught up with the action on the turn, with the board showing . There was about 1,700 in the middle, and both Antoine Amourette and his opponent checked to see the scary hit the river.
It took 15 hands for the short-stacked Antoine Amourette to wake up with and it took the same amount of hands to see him eliminated from this tournament. Amourette was down to 38,000 when he shoved all-in.
Antoine Amourette has finally got his stack all in after waiting until he had just 18,000 in chips left.
Antoine Amourette folded his big blind, his small blind and his button as he got heat from players preflop on those hands. That means he is down to just around 27,000 though and will have to get it in very soon if he has any hope.
28-year-old Antoine Amourette is one of the most accomplished players left in the tournament.
Jacky Wang has been hovering around with the second largest stack in the room for much of the last level or so. He was waiting patiently for his spot and it came when Amourette opened it up to 25,000.
"Carter, did you double!?" called out Jacky Wang from one of the other two tables remaining in this tournament. "Yeah, got in ace-six against eights and hit my ace on the turn," replied Gill.
Alvin Cheam's double-up hand all started when Antoine Amourette opened it up to 8,500 from early position. Cheam was in the small blind and he would three-bet shove for his remaining 66,000.
“Where are you from?” asked Carter Gill. “France,” replied Antoine Amourette. “Where abouts?” “Paris.” “Yeah? You play pretty good for a French guy!”
When we came to Bobo Chen's table there was a flop showing and Chen was involved in the hand with Antoine Amourette. The action was checked to Chen and he quite quickly (quickly for him anyway), bet 3,500.
When we came to Antoine Amourette's table, there was already a flop showing and Amourette was involved in a hand with Pakinai Lisawad. It was on Amourette to act first and he opted to check.
When we came to Antoine Amourett's table, there was a board showing spread across the felt and Julian Hasse was all in for 17,900 behind Amourette.
Not many players have managed to amass a big chip stack here on Day 1b, but so far Antoine Amourette has been quite active in working up to almost 40,000 in chips.
When we came to Antoine Amourette's table there was a board showing and Amourette was first to act against one opponent. The European player flicked out 2,600 and his opponent called as one last card was dealt on the river.
Antoine Amourette is no stranger to success on the tournament felt around the world. Amourette's poker resume include a World Poker Tour runner-up finish, along with a 5th place at 2010's APPT Sydney Main Event.
From under the gun, Antoine Amourette pushed all in for his last 151,000 before Benjamin McLean followed suit by moving all in from the button to force the blinds to fold.
On the first hand after play - and sporting an exchanged white shirt for a black t-shirt - Antoine Amourette opened the button to 88,000 only to have Benjamin McLean three-bet shove from the big blind for his remaining 517,000.
From the cutoff seat, Antoine Amourette raised to 60,000. Jonathan Karamalikis reraised to 130,000 from the button and won the pot. This isn't that big of a deal, but Karamalikis now has 4.08 million in chips.
From the cutoff, Antoine Amourette bumped it to 66,000 only to have Eddy Sabat three-bet to 148,000 from the big blind. Amourette kicked his cards to the muck, and Sabat collected the pot to move to 825,000 in chips.
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