2010 EPT Deauville

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 EPT Deauville

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
€847,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,686,400
Entries
768
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
30,000

Tables Of Doom

Table Three is a terrifying place to be, featuring as it does Messrs. Dario Minieri, Pascal Perrault and Marc Naalden, as well as Ms. Barbara Martinez.

Over on Table Eight things are hotting up as well, as Peter Eastgate has finally arrived to take his seat a couple places over from Vitaly Lunkin...

Peter Arrived Through the... (wait for it)... East Gate

Peter Eastgate was on our initial list of registrants this morning, but he was nowhere to be found on our Danish scavenger hunt. Returning from the first break, though, Mr. Eastgate has magically appeared at table in the center of the room, sharing the felt with Vitaly Lunkin. Together, they have earned nearly $15 million in tournament poker, a fact that should have the other seven players at their table cowering in fear.

As he was taking his seat, Eastgate was propositioned by Dario Minieri for a last-longer bet. The World Champ is usually good for a few side bets, but he politely declined this time around.

Time for a Deeble Up

Laurent Lagreve didn't know what he was getting into when he opened to 650 from middle position. When action folded to Freddy Deeb in the big blind, he bumped it up to 2,700, and Lagreve made the call.

Flop: {Q-Hearts} {8-Spades} {5-Spades}

Deeb bet out one grey 5,000 chip. Instantly, Lagreve tossed three 5,000 chips into the middle. Freddy counted his stack and then moved all in for only a a few thousand more. Grumbling about it, Lagreve had no choice but to call.

Deeb: {K-Spades} {K-Clubs}
Lagreve: {10-Spades} {10-Diamonds}

The {7-Diamonds} on the turn and {7-Clubs} on the river didn't change anything, and Lagreve quietly tapped the table. After his double up, Deeb has 41,000.

Tags: Freddy DeebLaurent Lagreve

Koch Crows His Last

Julien Brecard
Julien Brecard
A delighted Julien Brecard was good enough to share with us the source of his joy.

The former poker press member turned PokerStars Sponsored Player told us that Sijbrand Maal opened for 600 and he just flat-called. There were two further calls, before Marcel Koch reraised to 3,500. Maal passed, but Brecard made it 13,000 to go. Everyone else passed, Koch pushed for perhaps 16,000 with {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds}, and Brecard was only too happy to call with his {A-?} {A-?}. "But I didn't have the ace of diamonds," Brecard explained, "Because then it would have been kind of a fix." Interesting.

Anyway, Koch flopped a king, but a bunch of bricks later and Koch was busto, while the People's Choice Award winner from last night's French Poker Awards ceremony was up to a commanding 65,000.

Tags: Julien Brecard

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Ainsworth A-Okay

After an opening limp in front of him, Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth stuck in a raise. Georges Djen made the call in the next seat over, and there would be one more caller plus the limper to go four-handed to a flop.

It came out {J-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds}, and action checked to Djen. He fired out a pot-sized bet, enough to fold the table back around to Ainsworth. He wasn't going anywhere, though, sticking in a check-raise to 20,000 straight. Djen moved all in for just a few thousand more, and Ainsworth made the call with the covering stack.

Showdown
Ainsworth: {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds}
Djen: {9-Clubs} {9-Spades}

Ainsworth was drawing, but he was drawing to a myriad of outs. The {3-Clubs} on the turn was about as ugly as a card can get, but the turn would be a much prettier sight for the Irishman. The {5-Diamonds} peeled off the deck, and that's one of Ainsworth's out cards. He fills in his flush, Djen yells and pounds the table, and Ainsworth stacks up 65,000 chips as he offers up a token, "Unlucky," to his departing opponent.

He's up to about 62,000 after that knockout.

Tags: Jude Ainsworth

Assorted Chip Countings

Ludovic Lacay - 43,000
Bruno Fitoussi - 28,500
Juha Helppi - 46,000
Praz Bansi - 40,000
Marc Naalden - 65,000
Dario Minieri - 52,000
ElkY - 50,000
Jan Skampa - 24,500
Alex Kravchenko - 23,000
Isabelle Mercier - 22,000
Ljubomir Josipovic - 57,000
Greg Raymer - 39,500
Ivo Donev - 18,000
Tristan Clemencon - 25,000
Joep van den Bijgaart - 10,500
Dominik Nitsche - 40,000
Ramzi Jelassi - 37,000
Sijbrand Maal - 31,000
Jude Ainsworth - 60,000
Davidi Kitai - 35,000
Joao Barbosa - 29,000
Joe Beevers - 19,700
John Eames - 35,000
Nicolas Levi - 25,000

Perrault Flushes

We arrived to see a board reading {6-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {3-Hearts} and Pascal Perrault had either checked or bet - either way, Mercedes Osti had a call or a bet of 3,700 in front of her, and Perrault (re)raised to 8,000. Call.

The river was the {K-Clubs} and Perrault now bet out 10,000 in a single high-denomination chip. Ms. Osti made a face and passed. Perrault showed her {Q-Hearts} {10-Hearts} for her trouble, and is up to 53,000.

Tags: Pascal Perrault

Adeniya Denied

So good they named him plural
So good they named him plural
By the time we arrived on the scene, there was a whole board laid out on the felt, reading exactly thus:

{9-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {4-Hearts} {5-Spades} {3-Spades}

Martins Adeniya seems to have checked, and Jean Frederic Thomas bet 750. Adeniya raised to around 8,000, and Thomas called - and then said "Yessssss," when his {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts} turned out to be good to beat Adeniya's {J-Clubs} {J-Spades}. Adeniya made a noise like a small, sad trumpet, and is down to 16,000.

Tags: Martins Adeniya

Vikash Dashed

French footballer Vikash Dhorassoo was hoping for a double up when he picked up pocket Aces, but things didn't go quite as planned. He ran into the mighty {A-?} {7-?} of a tablemate. A {10-?} {7-?} {7-?} flop was all it took to get Vikash ejected from this game.

Tags: Vikash Dhorassoo