And We Are Off
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Welcome to day two of EPT Deauville.
Catherine Hong is walking around the casino trying to find herself a new players bracelet so she can get in the tournament area to play. Ludovic Lacay is staring at the monitor trying to locate his seat while a cameraman follows his every move.
In the tournament area Kristoffer Thorsson has started well after a well timed squeeze from the small blind brought him 5,100 additional uncontested chips.
Team Pokerstars Pro Christophe de Meulder has not started off so well after losing a substantial portion of his chips in this hand.
A player we will call the cigarette smoking man (because he had a pack of cigarettes in front of him) raised to 2,700 from under-the-gun. The action folded around to de Meulder who called in the big blind. The flop was a very interesting 
and de Meulder checked to the cigarette smoking man who bet 3,500 and de Meulder called.
The turn paired the ace when the dealer gave us the 
and both players checked.
The river was the 
filling a potential back door flush draw. De Meulder counted out a bet and placed 6,800 across the line and the cigarette smoking man made a huge raise making it 26,800 to play and de Meulder folded.