All action from the start
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Welch in seat 1 made it 5k to go. Soren Kongsgaard Nielsen reraised his remaining 12k. Welch said afterwards he was going to call this but seat 3, Farid Meragni, called the all-in bet. That persuaded Welch to fold his pair of tens.
The cards came over
for Nielsen and 
for Meragni who dominated. The flop was
. No help for Nielsen.The turn was
. Now Nielsen was ahead. River
!! Meragni makes his flush and Nielsen has gone. David Welch is grateful to Meragni for his preflop call and survives with a manageable stack. Meragni collected an additional 17k or thereabouts. He has had some good early cards having flopped a set with 44 earlier on and is now comfortable.