€5,300 Main Event
Day 1b Started
€5,300 Main Event
Day 1b Started
At noon the tournament will start its second starting day. Yesterday was a rather easy going day with just 234 players in action. Exactly a hundred wouldn't make it through the eight 75-minute levels and had to forfeit their chips early.
Today should be a lot busier. Last year Remi Castaignon triumphed over a 782 other players, if this years PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Main Event wants to beat those numbers we'll need at least 548 players today. The tournament room can handle those numbers, but will the players be here?
A lot of familiar names are in attendance here in Deauville today. Team PokerStars Pro's Jake Cody and Luca Pagano will play today, last years runner up Walid Bou Habib (2nd for €475,000) will start with 30,000 in chips and Niels Van Leeuwen, yesterdays French Poker Series winner, will start. And then there's Patrick Bruel, the accomplished French singer, actor, and professional poker player will make his appearance today. Not to sing a nice little intro song, but to gather all of the chips in the room.
PokerNews' live reporting starts in just under half an hour. Follow the action right here, from start to finish - what should be around midnight.
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 50 | 100 | - |
2 | 75 | 150 | - |
20 minute break | |||
3 | 100 | 200 | - |
4 | 100 | 200 | 25 |
20 minute break | |||
5 | 150 | 300 | 25 |
6 | 200 | 400 | 50 |
75 minute dinner break | |||
7 | 250 | 500 | 50 |
8 | 300 | 600 | 75 |
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
There are still a lot of empty spots, but also a lot of familiar faces already. Some of the players arriving right on time:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Steven Watts |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jamila Von Perger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jake Cody |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
JP Kelly |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Manig Loeser |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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Luca Pagano |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Noel Gaens |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Stephen Chidwick |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Antonio Matias |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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Govert Metaal |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Walid Bou Habib |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Konstantin Puchkov |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Sofia Lövgren
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Martin Staszko |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jan Heitmann |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Natalie Hof |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jon Spinks |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Mat Frankland |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
PokerStars Tournament rules state that at least three players must have their stacks in play before the dealer can start dealing. This means that some of the early risers might as well have stayed in bed. Whilst most tables meet this requirement there's quite a few tables where only one or two players have shown up. At one particular table the solitary arrival looked on forlornly as a hand went on at an adjacent table.
Many of the tables haven't quite filled up yet but that hasn't stopped some of them being filled with a few interesting draws.
Mat Frankland, who has had two deep runs in this event in the last three years, is sitting next to EPT London finalist Ludovic Geilich. Elsewhere Jamila Von Perger, who won the Ladies' Event last night is sharing a table with Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano. Von Perger's other half, Manig Loeser is sitting on the same table as Bulgarian bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jamila Von Perger | 30,000 | |
Luca Pagano | 30,000 | |
Simeon Naydenov | 30,000 | |
Manig Loeser | 30,000 | |
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Mat Frankland | 30,000 | |
Ludovic Geilich | 30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Tureniec |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Praz Bansi |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Ignat Liviu |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Sylvain Loosli |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jan Collado | 30,000 | |
Jasper Wetemans |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Gaëlle Baumann
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Toby Lewis |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
It’s very early in the day and a lot of hands are being played quite cautiously as the tables fill up and players begin to suss out their opponents tendencies, playing styles and, as overheard already, “Your range.” But where there are poker players there will always be action and for the short time we observed one table it seems that PokerStars Qualifier Jack Melki from France doesn’t want to hang around.
Melki took a decent 10k pot from another PokerStars Qualifier, Ukrainian Albert Mykhaylyuta. On a final board of Mykhaylyuta had flopped two pair with but was out flopped by Melki who held . Not long after Melki took another pot from the same player when running sixes on the turn and river counterfeited Mykhaylyuta’s flopped two pair. He was not amused.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guillaume Diaz | 30,000 |