Another Double for de la Gorce Through Benzinou
Guillaume De la Gorce of France had just doubled through Joel Benzinou a little while ago (before having knocked out El Mimouni), when he found himself once again committing his entire stack against the Belgian.
In this one, de la Gorce opened for 28,000 from under the gun, and it folded around to Benzinou who reraised to 72,000 from the small blind. The big blind got out, then de la Gorce pushed all in for 372,000 total. Benzinou snap-called, turning over his , while de la Gorce showed .
The flop came , bringing de la Gorce the ace he needed. The turn was the and the river the , and de la Gorce doubled up to 768,000 total. Benzinou, meanwhile, has slipped to around the 200,000-chip mark.