2011 EPT Deauville

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2011 EPT Deauville

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€880,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,276,800
Entries
891
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Main Event

Day 1a Completed

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Player Chips Progress
Guillaume de la Gorce
Guillaume de la Gorce
196,800
Bruno Launais fr
Bruno Launais
185,900
Julien Muel
Julien Muel
183,100
168,600
Pedro Mendes Muller
Pedro Mendes Muller
166,300 16,300
Nicolas Babel
Nicolas Babel
164,100 -5,900
Pierre Calamusa
Pierre Calamusa
154,300
Jose Furtado
Jose Furtado
143,600
142,900
128,300
125,400
Lauri Korhonen
Lauri Korhonen
115,600
Philip Jacobsen
Philip Jacobsen
115,000
Thomas Oliver Macdonald
Thomas Oliver Macdonald
113,200
111,400
Oleh Okhotskyi
Oleh Okhotskyi
111,100
110,700
110,000
Tristan Clemencon fr
Tristan Clemencon
109,200 -800
108,300
108,100
107,500
105,700
104,200
Antoine Saout fr
Antoine Saout
104,100 -20,900

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End of Day 1a

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Guillaume de la Gorce
Guillaume de la Gorce

The first day of EPT Deauville 2011 is officially done and dusted. 419 players took part today hoping that they would still be around in a week's time to contest the final table.

It was not a great day for the British players as PokerStars Team Pros Vicky Coren and John Duthie both made early exits, the former running the nut flush into a straight flush. We will also be crowning a new champion as Jake Cody was eliminated towards the end of the day in a massive four-way pot.

Indeed, it was to be the home nation that had all the fun today as Nicolas Babel, Bruno Launais, Julien Muel and former WSOP Main Event finalist Antoine Saout all had good days finishing well over the 100,000 mark. But the chip leader overall was Guillaume de la Gorce, the Frenchman finishing with 196,800 at the very top of the pile.

Tomorrow will see a whole host of new players including Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree, Arnaud Mattern and ElkY. Also, making his European debut under his real name will be Viktor "Isildur1" Blom while Daniel Negreanu has also shown up to hopefully repeat his good performance in Vienna.

We'll be back tomorrow at midday once more with all the action from Day 1b, see you then!

Tags: Guillaume de la Gorce

Champion Toppled

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Jake Cody
Jake Cody

We will be crowning a brand new champion in Deauville this week, as reigning champ Jake Cody has been eliminated in a four-way preflop all-in showdown. Yup, that's right - four-way.

Manuel Bevand: {4-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}
Jake Cody: {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}
Joseph Stykemain: {j-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}
Angelo Magro: {k-Hearts}{k-Clubs}

Board: {10-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{5-Spades}{7-Clubs}

Cody hit the rail with a shrug, as did Bevand. Stykemain picked up the side pot and finished the hand on around 50,000; Magro kissed his cowboys before tossing them back to the dealer, and took the 55,000 main pot.

Tags: Jake CodyManuel BevandJoseph StykemainAngelo Magro

Yannick Autuaa Here

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

Pedro Mendes Muller and Yannick Autuaa got into a raising war blind or blind resulting in a preflop all-in, with Autuaa holding a decisive advantage with his {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs} ahead of Muller's {A-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}.

The board brought something for bother coming {Q-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {Q-Spades} but the {6-Spades} turn and {7-Spades} river helped neither and Yannick had been 3-Autuaa-ed. (sorry)

Pedro Mendes Muller is up to about 150,000.

Chip Counts, Assorted

Player Chips Progress
Guillaume de la Gorce
Guillaume de la Gorce
165,000 35,000
Bruno Launais fr
Bruno Launais
153,000 -7,000
Nicolas Babel
Nicolas Babel
130,000 -10,000
Paulino Subtil
Paulino Subtil
99,000 14,000
Steven van Zadelhoff nl
Steven van Zadelhoff
90,000 45,000
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
87,000 48,000
Antoine Saout fr
Antoine Saout
83,000 25,000
Leo Margets es
Leo Margets
Winamax
70,000 -4,000
Chris Bjorin
Chris Bjorin
65,000 5,500
Fabrizio Baldassari it
Fabrizio Baldassari
60,000 13,000
Praz Bansi gb
Praz Bansi
60,000
Chris Brammer gb
Chris Brammer
56,000 -13,000
Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
46,000 -8,500
Drasutis Narmontas
Drasutis Narmontas
45,000 -7,000
James Mitchell gb
James Mitchell
44,000 15,500
Matthias De Meulder be
Matthias De Meulder
37,500 -1,500
Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
34,000 -4,200
Jan Bendik sk
Jan Bendik
EPT 1X Winner
31,000 14,000
Paul Testud fr
Paul Testud
30,000 5,575
Fernando Brito pt
Fernando Brito
29,000 1,000
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
EPT 1X Winner
29,000 5,000
Theo Jorgensen dk
Theo Jorgensen
28,000 -5,000
Thomas Bichon fr
Thomas Bichon
25,000 4,600
Matt Perrins
Matt Perrins
25,000 4,500
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
23,000 12,000

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Hijacked!

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Jack Ellwood
Jack Ellwood

It looks as though one of either two things has happened. Either Jack Ellwood is so confident he no longer needs to be at his table or even leave his chips there as a token of his belief in winning this tournament...

Or, he's been knocked out.

Tags: Jack Ellwood

De Meulder On De Dancefloor

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Christophe De Meulder
Christophe De Meulder

Well, Christophe De Meulder might be able to bust a few moves in celebration after he doubled up again, pushing for 6,775 over the top of Rabtsov Kirell's 2,000 button raise. A call and a race between the Belgian's {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} and the Russian's {9-Clubs} {9-Diamonds}.

The board? A quickly emphatic {K-Clubs} {7-Spades} {Q-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} puts the Team Pokerstars Pro back over the 15,000 mark.

Tags: Christophe De Meulder

Castel Fortified

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

A gigantic three-way cooler just now saw Christophe Castel delighted as he tripled up to what looked like 70,000; Drasutis Narmontas was somewhat less happy as his stack only increased very slightly from winning the side pot; and Turkyilmaz Selim has very few reasons to be cheerful as he's been crippled to just 6,000.

Selim: {j-Diamonds}{j-Spades}
Narmontas: {k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}
Castel: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}

Board: {5-Spades}{7-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{a-Spades}{6-Hearts}

Tags: Christophe CastelDrasutis NarmontasTurkyilmaz Selim