Chop It Up
In the last hand of Level 18, Guillaume Cescut of France raised to 15,000 from the hijack, then El Mehdi El Mimouni of Morocco reraised all in from the button for 56,000. The Frenchman Nicolas Levi, sitting on the other side of the dealer, was next to act from the small blind. He leaned forward to see how much El Mimouni was in for, then leaned back and pushed ahead a significant reraise, prompting both the big blind and Cescut to skedaddle.
Much ado about not a lot, it appeared, as Levi showed , while El Mimouni had . The board came , and the pair chopped it up.
Mimouni remains one of the short stacks with a little over 60,000 now, while Levi has 355,000.