Photo: Pierre-Paul Paulin

On a board reading with a bit over 100,000 already in the middle, Yvon Carpentier was all-in from the hijack for around 130,000, and up against Pierre-Paul Paulin, who had him slightly covered from the cutoff.

Yvon Carpentier:
Pierre-Paul Paulin:

Paulin was in bad shape with top pair, top kicker against Carpentier’s two pair, but the river gave Paulin a higher two pair to take down the sizable pot while sending Carpentier to the rail.

Pierre-Paul Paulin - 405,000
Yvon Carpentier: - eliminated