Darcourt for the First Showdown
We've finally had a showdown at our "last" table of 10 players, and the victor was none other than former WPT champion Guillaume Darcourt. Darcourt was in position against Koen de Bakker for a flop of . With 150,000 in the pot, de Bakker made a bet of 85,000 that Darcourt called.
The turn did not slow down de Bakker. He fired again, a somewhat small 125,000, into the 320,000-chip pot. Darcourt called again. The river was a dreaded ace, . It forced a check from de Bakker, opening the door for Darcourt to bet 200,000. de Bakker eventually called, but whatever he had was mucked when Darcourt turned up the nuts, . He's up to 1.1 million in chips, while de Bakker is all the way back down to 365,000.