Main event
Day 1b Completed
2010 WPT Paris
Main event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 WPT Paris
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€2,347,797
Entries
247
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Day 1B Concludes - Roll on Day Two
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With the registration complete, the return of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris saw 247 total runners, creating a prize-pool of over €2.3 million to be spread out amongst 27 players. The winner of the event will pocket a hefty €633,902 for their efforts along with the coveted World Poker Tour title, but there's a long way to go.
The remaining 74 players surviving today's six 90-minute levels will combine with those who've had today to spend in springtime Paris (the life's not all bad) tomorrow. Joining the top of the combined pack will be Iulian Iacob (180,900) and Ilan Boujenah who've vied in the last two levels for the title of Chip Leader. Also stacked up heading to tomorrow are Theo Jorgensen, Jonathan Layani, and Eric Sadoun, who all have breached the 100,000 chip mark. Andrew Feldman, Patrick Bruel, Alexander Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier have made it through too and will join the 53 day 1a survivors right here at the Aviation Club.
The action gets back under way at 3 p.m. tomorrow here in Paris at the Aviation Club de France, so be sure to keep your browser locked to PokerNews for up-to-the-minute live coverage.
11th Hour Bluff by Mattsson
The last five hands have been announced (chosen, actually, from a selection of cards offered to Isabelle Mercier by the TD), but some players are eking every last bit of play out of this long day.
Just now I caught a hand at the end during a very lengthy dwell as David Lascar faced a river raise by Mattsson of his 6k bet out with the board reading 
. He really took his time, looking at his stack which would not take a 17,500 hit too well. At long last, as other tables looked to finish their last five hands before this one had started, Lascar threw his hand away, showing the table the 
he was laying down. In return, Mattsson turned over his 
with a cheeky smile. On the plus side, he's not got long to tilt if he's at all tiltable.
Last Five Hands
Isabelle Mercier had to pick a card from one to six on the number of hands we have left to play and she chose five.
Five more hands to go then and then play will end for the day.
There's A Storm Bruel-ing
Patrick Bruel, the most famous man in France that is playing poker here today, has just doubled up against Kimmo Kurko.
"Please have jacks!" said Kurko as he flipped 
but Bruel showed 
and managed to hold on a 
board
Nacho Barbero Might Be Going Mad
Maybe it's the supreme amount of tiredness, but Jose "Nacho" Barbero might be losing a few marbles right now. He folded, face up 
to a 30,000 shove but was unable to get his opponent to reciprocate the show.
Barbero seemed a little non-plussed but then started singing 'Against All Odds' by Phil Collins.
It's all got rather surreal here.
Some big stacks to close out the night
Nobody seems to have any wildly creative stack architecture skills, but we decided to give their stacks some love anyway. We've gotten some snaps of some of the notables left in the field as well.
Chaar-d Luck
Osama Chaar just contributed over 15k to the Iacob Chip Lead Fund with a frustrating river for him. Holding he looked at a board of 
and at the 9k bet from Iacob. He called and sighed and threw his hand in seeing Iacob's 
. Someone at the table said, "That's how you become the chip leader," in a green-eyed sort of fashion...
Theo-Retically
With the board reading 
Theo Jorgensen raised a 3,000 bet to 11,000 but was called. The river was the 
and it was checked to Jorgensen who simply set his opponent all-in, the Dane wasn't called though and got shown 
instead.
Jorgensen asked, "Can I show one card?" before flashing the 
.
"Go on, show the other three," shouted Andrew Feldman but Jorgensen's remaining card was sent safely into the muck.
Toft Doesn't Crack Iacob Either
The big stack of the day, Iulian Iacob seems to have invisible poker armor and everyone on the table is bouncing off it, or avoiding tangling with him. Just now there was a late position raise to 1k called on the button by Casper Toft, before out came Iacob with a raise to 3,700 from the small blind. The original raiser lost interest here but Toft called. The flop came 
and implacable Iacob bet out 5k. Toft made the call. The turn brought the 
and another bet out from Iacob, this time 9k. Toft counted out his stack (under 30k) and folded with an exasperated bang on the table with his chips.