Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2014 PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Paris
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Paris
Buy-in
€1,200
Prize Pool
€736,550
Entries
682
Level
32
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
25,000
Guillaume Wilhelm Leads After Day 1a PMU.fr WPT National Paris
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Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Guillaume Wilhelm ended Day 1a of the 2014 PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Paris Main Event as the leader with 177,700 in chips. It was a day that saw many players come and go, and one that also included PMU Poker Team Pro Damien Lhommeau. Lhommeau finished on 139,100, which was good enough for second place. Belhardj Samir was in third with 133,100.
Day 1a started with a dozen players queueing and shivering outside the Cercle Clichy Montmartre. At the start of play, there would be 80 eager players huddled around the historic and ornate card room, and by the end of the day that number reached a final tally of 146. Of those, 72 survived to advance to Day 2a.
Wilhelm, a French poker pro, spent most of the day as the chip leader having gathered a stack early on and using it to command the table. It was an impressive display from Wilhelm, who was constantly in action putting pressure on smaller stacks. He once showed the table his 
and on another occasion made a check-raise with the 
on the turn of a board reading 
before again showing the table his cards.
Other notables who survived and thrived on Day 1a included Erwann Pecheux with 85,900 and Quentin Lecompte with 83,000.
Day 1b follows closely on the heels of Day 1a, beginning less than an hour later at 8 p.m. We’re all set for another 10 45-minute levels of poker action and PokerNews will be here to bring you the latest and find out if anyone can finish ahead of the hard-charging Wilhelm. Stay tuned.
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End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
177,700 | 177,700 |
|
|
139,100 | 139,100 |
|
|
133,100 | 133,100 |
|
|
118,800 | 118,800 |
|
|
117,400 | 117,400 |
|
|
116,600 | 116,600 |
|
|
113,000 | 113,000 |
|
|
112,900 | 112,900 |
|
|
110,400 | 110,400 |
|
|
105,000 | 105,000 |
|
|
103,700 | 103,700 |
|
|
103,600 | 103,600 |
|
|
91,000 | 91,000 |
|
|
88,000 | 88,000 |
|
|
85,900 | 85,900 |
|
|
85,300 | 85,300 |
|
|
84,800 | 84,800 |
|
|
83,800 | 83,800 |
|
|
83,700 | 83,700 |
|
|
83,000 | 83,000 |
|
|
79,300 | 79,300 |
|
|
79,200 | 79,200 |
|
|
79,000 | 79,000 |
|
|
76,700 | 76,700 |
|
|
72,700 | 72,700 |
Four More Hands
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The draw has been made and four more hands will be played before close of play.
More Day 1a Photos From the Felt
Some Chip Count Updates
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
As the players near the end of the day here's a quick update on some of the players we have been keeping an eye on ahead of a full count.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
82,000 | 29,000 |
|
|
76,000 | -2,000 |
|
|
64,000 | -1,000 |
|
|
46,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Photos From Day 1a
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
PMU Pro Stacking Chips
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Damien Lhommeau is one of a number of PMU Poker Team Pro’s that will be competing over the next few days hoping to claim the title and at the moment he is having the best of it.
Lhommeau currently sits with a healthy stack of 135,000 challenging for the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000 | 111,000 |