Gros' Misfortune
Many thanks to our roving reporter Arnaud Mattern, who found out what happened to his fellow Frenchman and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier through the mystical medium of the text message.
It turns out that ElkY had made a couple big folds - among them, he folded a set against what we believe was a flush - and so he was down to around 15,000 when William Thorson opened for 725 in mid position during the 150/300 level. There was one call before ElkY squeezed to 2,500 with . Thorson made it 8,000, ElkY got the whole lot in, and Thorson's spiked to send ElkY back out into the sunshine where his aviators serve an actual purpose.
For the rest of the week, though, life is indeed a beach for Grospellier.