Main event
Day 1b Started
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
Welcome to Day 1B of the 2010 WPT Grand Prix de Paris!
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It's the second start day of the WPT here at the Aviation Club de France in Paris and the tournament clock is already indicating that the field will be much bigger today. There are 125 players up on the board at this moment, but with play to start in half an hour and a whole level for people to buy in we're expecting this figure to increase to maybe even as high as 170 players.
Included in the field today are Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Alex Kravchenko, Anthony Roux and Stuart Rutter with six levels scheduled for today.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Cards in the air!
Play has started, there's a few tables missing players still but this tournament isn't going wait for slow coaches!
First Hand, First Bustout!
30,000 starting stack or no, there's always a chance in a no limit Hold'em tournament that a player's first hand can be his last. This was the case on table 18 just now as M. Moataz was noticed stacking 60,000 after a full house vs. bigger full house monster of a first pot. His table will now be eight-handed for a decent spell of time.
The field of household poker names we may have expected today hasn't quite materialised yet, but there's still over an hour to register and the numbers are rising (138 at the moment, 139 if you count the exiter).
Who is here?
Here are some of our players parting with €10,000 for the opportunity to play today.
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Pot Sails to Truong on the River
A big pot just went rolling on the river to Monsieur Truong (we're waiting on the full list of players to identify and/or elaborate on names, apologies). Caught on the turn when yellow 1k chips started being counted out for bets, the board was standing 
and Truong bet out 4,500 (he was in the big blind and was heads-up vs. Player In Hijack). His opponent slowly raised to 9,500 and very quickly received a call.
The river was the 
. Now Truong bet out 8,000 and was immediately called. He flipped the 
for the straight and his opponent sort of sat frozen for a moment before sliding his hand, face down, into the muck.
Bazin It to Win It
Stephane Bazin just won a 14,000 pot which started off fourway and ended up vs. only Patrick Bruel with a flurry of chuckling and French chatter only parts of which were understood and/or repeatable in polite company.
The flop had come 
and it checked to Bazin who bet 3k into a pot of 8k. Bruel on the button made the call and the other two players passed.
The turn was the 
and Bazin bet out 6k. Now there was a period of chat, with Bruel making that waving-forward motion symbolising his desire to move all-in, but in the end he overcame it (despite a third player joining the conversation saying, "He has less than two Kings!"). Bazin showed him that that was true, flipping 
and the table, which includes Freddy Deeb, continued playing.
Cruising the Room
We've been spotting more and more names taking their seats here at the Aviation Club de France.
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Jorgensen Ascendant
Table two seems to have Theo Jorgensen all over it - he's up to 55k and won two hands in a row while I was hovering in the sector (the Aviation Club is divided into a number of small separate rooms with between four and ten tables apiece).
The first saw him win a small pot from Josh Field who'd bet 1,325 on a flop of 
, only to pass to Jorgensen's raise (to 3,250). But that was just the appetizer - the main course was a very large pot played in the main against Alexandre Brivot. Brivot made it 300 to go preflop and picked up Jorgensen (again in position) and big blind Jean Rigal.
The flop came 
and both players checked to Jorgensen who bet 600. Rigal called, but Brivot upped it to 2,000. Neither player gave up at this point, however, and they all saw the 
turn. Now two checks to Jorgensen again saw bet 5,200, and this time Rigal folded but Brivot called very quickly.
The river: 
. Check again from Brivot, and Jorgensen bet 14k. Now for the first time in the hand, a long think. Brivot counted down his stack, with and without that 14k, and finally threw it in.
Jorgensen showed 
for the flopped set, which was good, chipping him up while Brivot now holds 18k.