Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has just taken her seat here in the main event and she has already rubbed up fiery Israeli Ilan Boujenah.
It was Pavel Sebesta who opened the betting with a raise to 300 from middle position, but little did he know this would start a chain of events that with end with Boujenah being riled. Rousso called that 300 raise from late position and to her left was Boujenah and he call also. The preflop round was completed when Eric Sadoun called in the small blind and the big blind folded.
The draw-heavy flop prompted a check from Sadoun, a bet of 750 from Sebesta and a call from Rousso. Boujenah raised the stakes by making it 2,400 to play, forcing Sadoun and Sebesta out of the pot, but Rousso called.
The turn was the and Rousso tapped the table and checked. Boujenah bet 4,600 and Rousso called after just a few seconds of deliberation. The river was the flush-completing was greeted with a bet of 9,000 from Rousso, which angered Boujenah no end. Boujenah removed his headphones and slammed them onto the felt in frustration more than anything else, before saying an ElkY-esque phrase, “So sick!”
For the next six minutes Boujenah replayed the hand over and over in his head, muttered under his breath and was in disbelief that Rousso – in his opinion – had check called the turn with a flush draw. In the midst of all this, Rousso’s fellow Team Pro Liv Boeree approached the rail and Boujenah asked, “Is she capable of donkey bluffs?” to the amusement of everyone.
A few minutes later Banjamin Juhasz called the clock on Boujenah, but the floor staff were not required because Boujenah folded, showing the as he did. Rousso’s cards hit the muck in record time and Boujenah went off to discuss the hand with Miss Boeree.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vanessa Rousso |
39,650
39,650
|
39,650 |
Ilan Boujenah |
15,300
-14,700
|
-14,700 |
On the turn of a board, Jean Pierre Duriez checked, Elisabeth Hille led out for 1,600 and Marvin Rettenmaier folded but Duriez made the call to see the on the river.
Both players checked and Duriez flipped , Hille mucked and Rettenmaier had a wry smile on his face.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Elisabeth Hille |
32,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Gilbert Merheb has just informed us that he managed to flop quad aces but failed in his quest to get paid off from them.
Merheb said he opened in the small blind and Michael Schurpf called in the big blind. Both players checked the trio of aces that landed on the flop, but when a king spiked on the turn Merheb lead out. Schurpf did not take the bait and he folded.
Merheb showed an ace and picked up the smaller than anticipated pot.
Marcin Horecki is here, having brought a copy of Vincent V. Severski's thick thriller Niewierni to read between hands during the early going. Just now he was looking up from his book to see a player raising to 300 from early position, then another three-betting to 800. The action on Horecki, he reached forward to set out another reraise to 2,325.
It folded back to the original raiser who folded, then Horecki's lone remaining opponent repopped it to 5,800. Horecki thought a short while, then announced he was all in, and his opponent called to commit his remaining 17,000 or so.
Horecki had and his opponent . The flop came to reduce the drama somewhat, but the on the turn meant Horecki could still make a flush to overcome his opponent's set of kings. But alas for the Polish pro, the river was the , the ace coming too late to help him.
The first chapter of the EPT Deauville Main Event has turned out not so well for Horecki who tumbles down below 10,000 on that hand. He's hoping, however, the rest of the book reads better.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marcin Horecki |
9,000
-21,000
|
-21,000 |
Max Heinzelmann, who came second in back-to-back EPT's in San Remo and Berlin back in Season 7 has made a return here in Deauville despite having claimed he's 'retired' from poker.
"Deauville is close and it's pretty soft, I've been here the last two years so I couldn't really pass up the opportunity."
There aren't any plans to come out of retirement and play a few more tournaments?
He laughed, "No, I've definitely going back to retirement after this."
Retired in his twenties. What a life.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Max Heinzelmann |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
James Mitchell scooped a nice pot with pocket aces and was surprised to see his opponent open pocket kings at showdown.
There was a raise to 300 from the hijack and a flat call from the cut-off before Mitchell three-bet to 1,100 off the button.
The raiser folded but the player in the cut-off called to the flop. Mitchell bet 900 and called when his opponent check-raised up to 2,500.
Both players checked the turn before Mitchell called a 3,000 bet on the river. Mitchell's were good to beat the cut-off's .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
James Mitchell |
36,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
The first level of play is yet to be completed, but that has not stopped Portugal's Ayaz Manji losing his entire stack!
We joined the action with Balazs Botond seated on the button with 900 chips in front of him. Filip Mans had raised to 2,400 in the hijack and Manji raised to 6,300 on the button. Botond folded but Mans called.
The dealer fanned out the all-heart 8h-2h-7h flop, a flop that Mans initially checked. Manji moved all-in for around 25,000 and Mans snap-called!
Manji:
Mans:
A disgusted Manji slammed his cards onto the table and stood from his chair. The turn and river were the and respectively, busting Manji and leaving Mans to stack his new found chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Filip Mans | 60,000 | |
Ayaz Manji | Busted |
John O'Shea and his fellow countryman David Kilmartin are seated over on Table 3 and have engaged in some friendly banter with one another. The look on their table mates' face is priceless as they try to decipher the Irish twang from O'Shea and Kilmartin!
Yann Loreau opened to 250 from middle position and Laurent Olive called to his immediate left. British pro, Mathew Frankland, was next to act and he raised to 700. This was enough to force out the remaining active players, including the two players already with chips invested in the pot.