Main Event
Day 6 Started
2011 EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 EPT Deauville
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,276,800
Entries
891
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Welcome to the PokerStars.Fr EPT Deauville Final Table!
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It's the day of the final table, 891 players entered the event and now we're down to the final eight.
Seat 1: Anthony Hnatow - 1,644,000
Seat 2: Julien Claudepierre - 3,244,000
Seat 3: Martin Jacobson - 7,280,000
Seat 4: Ruslan Prydryk - 1,154,000
Seat 5: Kaspars Renga - 470,000
Seat 6: Alex Wice - 6,248,000
Seat 7: Kenny Hallaert - 3,599,000
Seat 8: Lucien Cohen - 3,085,000
Once again, we'll be crowning a brand new winner at the EPT, but who will it be? Can Martin Jacobson, the chip leader, finally capture the title on his third final table? Could Canadian Alex Wice who had held the chip lead for most of the last couple of days beat him to it? Or will this be a victory for the home nation with one of the three Frenchmen capturing the title? There's also the popular Belgian Kenny Hallaert, former finalist Ruslan Prydryk and the tenacious short-stack Kaspars Renga, all of whom are in with a shout.
Play gets underway in around 45 minutes, follow all the action here on PokerNews!
(All bios courtesy of Mad Harper at PokerStars)
Seat 1: Anthony Hnatow, 22, Ozoir-La-Ferriere, France – 1,644,000
Anthony is a student in Computer Engineering who's been playing NLHE for three years. He doesn't want to play other variants saying he'd rather wait until he’s perfected Hold'em. His favorite hunting ground is the cash-game table, online at first (under the nickname ”nartoof”) and recently in Paris cardrooms. Since the French online gaming market was regulated in June 2010, Anthony has started playing more tournaments because, he explains, the fields on French websites are a bit easier to navigate. He played his first live tournament last December during the Forges-Les-Eaux stop of the PokerStars France Poker Series. That's when he decided he would play EPT Deauville. If Anthony wins tomorrow, he plans to buy a house and turn it into a night-club, complete with entry fee and all !
Seat 2: Julien Claudepierre, 24, France – 3,244,000
Like many people, Julien discovered poker watching the movie “Rounders” in 2006.. He started by playing micro-stakes online cash-games and then slowly moved up the ranks. He is now a regular at the €5/€10 tables under the user id “Garrincho”. He mainly plays NLHE but also took up PLO recently. After completing his engineering studies 18 months ago, Julien decided to make the leap towards professional poker. His best results to date are victory in a €100,000 guaranteed online tournament and an 11th place finish at the Spanish Poker Tour final stop in 2010. During Day 5 of EPT Deauville, Julien knocked his good friend Fabrice Soulier. Apart from poker, Julien loves football - especially Zinedine Zidane and the French team ‘AS Nancy’.
Seat 3: Martin Jacobson, 23, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 7,280,000
PokerStars qualifier Martin Jacobson, who goes into the final as chip leader, has numerous great results to his name including his most recent and biggest cash – runner-up at EPT Vilamoura in Portugal last September for €297,985. Other deep runs include third place at EPT Budapest in Season 5 for €197,904, runner-up at WPT Venice last year for €238,840 and a fourth place finish in the World Series $1,500 side event last summer for $183,345. His live tournament winnings are now over $1.3 million. Jacobson won his seat to Deauville via the EPT Steps satellites on New Year’s Day.
Seat 4: Ruslan Prydryk, 38, Lugansk , Ukraine – 1,154,000
Prydryk has been playing EPTs for several years and first came to notice when he made the final of EPT Warsaw in Season 6. He finished fifth in that event for around €75,000 – his biggest ever cash. He has also enjoyed some other good EPT finishes including 48th place at EPT Prague just before Christmas for €10,000 and 91st place at EPT Berlin last season for €11,000 - as well as winning a local event in Yalta, Ukraine last May for €67,000. Former lawyer Prydryk has been playing poker for more than four years now and now considers himself a pro. He is being supported in France by his wife Oksana; the couple’s 13-year-old daughter Irisa is at home. Prydryk’s biggest poker success was winning the 2009 Gary Bowman Cup when he became the poker champion of Ukraine. Outside of poker, he enjoys watching and playing football.
Seat 5 : Kaspars Renga, 44, Riga, Latvia – 470,000
Renga doesn't describe himself as a professional player. He plays a lot of poker but his day job is running a hunting magazine. This is Renga’s fourth EPT cash out of only seven tries. The 44-year-old has already made the money twice in Barcelona (Season 6 and 7) and Prague just a month ago. Those results come in addition to a string of final tables and deep runs in smaller tourneys in Lithuania, Estonia and his native Latvia. His most lucrative cash before now was runner-up in a €1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha side event (“my favorite game”, he says) during EPT Berlin for €29,700. Renga is being supported by his wife and two children who are following his progress from home.
Seat 6: Alex Wice, 22, Toronto, Canada - PokerStars qualifier - 6,248,000
Alex has been playing poker since before he went to high school. He carried on playing part-time while at Waterloo University studying Maths before dropping out to play full-time in August 2008 after winning PokerStars’ Sunday Warm Up for $135,000. He is a regular online high stakes MTT player and has also been playing live for the last two years. He cashed at EPT London in season six but his big breakthrough in live events came at last summer’s WSOP where he came third for $102,314 in the $2,500 World Championship Mixed Events 8 game. All his focus since he turned pro has been on improving his game and he does a lot of research analysing hands on his computer. He credits a lot of his success with deep stack tournament play to Xuan Liu, who also played here, and has helped him over the last few months.
Seat 7: Kenny “SpaceyFCB” Hallaert, 29, Namur, Belgium – 3,599,000
Hallaert is a semi-professional player who lives in Namur and runs tournaments at the local casino. He also runs marketing for the casino catering for non-French speakers. He’s played numerous EPTs (his guess is anything from ten to 15) and has qualified for most of them. Making the final – where he’s guaranteed at least €66,800 – is not his biggest live result. He came sixth at the Master Classics in Amsterdam in 2009 for €86,184 and last season, he came 37th at the EPT Grand Final for €35,000. He also won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up tourney in January 2009 and was top of the PokerStars TLB the same month. He is now keen to become the first ever Belgian EPT champion.
Seat 8: Lucien Cohen, 47, Paris, France – 3,085,000
Lucien Cohen is an amateur player who enjoys playing Pot Limit Omaha cash games. He's been playing poker for 20 years having started, like many in France, with good old five card draw. Since EPT Deauville started, Lucien has been repeatedly seen showing table mates and spectators a plastic rat which he was often “kissed” while playing all-in pots. This lucky charm is actually the official mascot of the pest control company Cohen owns in Paris. Cohen is being supported in Deauville by his wife, kid sister and various friends and is very excited about playing an EPT final table. He plans to play more live tournaments in the future.