Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
2011 EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 1a
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
Clemencon Flying High
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Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Tristan Clemencon, who came third here two years ago for a rather nice €284,800, is looking in decent shape to make another assault on the final table - he's at 41,000 right now, and that's after losing a relatively chunky Level 3 hand.
Three players made it to the 
flop and it checked around to Clemencon on the button who bet 925. But the gentleman in the big blind now check-raised to 3,200, pushing off both the third player in mid position and, eventually, Clemencon. Clemencon didn't look terribly bothered about the small hit, and his stack remains well over the average.
Duthie Doubles Anouar
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
EPT founder John Duthie has taken a small hit doubling up one Mehlil Anouar of Morocco, the latter moving in on the flop.
Duthie: 
Anouar: 
Board: 
Fortunately for Duthie, Anouar's all in was only for 4,000 or so, meaning that Duthie is still above his starting stack on 32,500.
Lacay Flying High
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Ludovic Lacay, more aggressive than a pumped up Jonah Lomu, is on about 50,000 now after making a big overbet of 19,000 on the river of a 
board into a pot of 11,000 getting his opponent to fold 
face up.
Assorted Chip Counts
...From the right hand side of the room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
54,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
|
50,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
46,000
8,825
|
8,825 |
|
35,000 | |
|
|
34,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
32,000
1,950
|
1,950 |
|
||
|
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
29,500
-500
|
-500 |
|
|
||
|
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
||
|
28,500
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
22,000
-5,250
|
-5,250 |
|
18,000
-2,750
|
-2,750 |
|
||
|
17,500
-12,500
|
-12,500 |
|
|
||
|
16,200
-13,800
|
-13,800 |
Table 14 Action
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
A selection of hands from the table occupied by, Team Pokerstars Pro Christophe De Meulder and Team Pokerstars Sportstar Fatima Moreira de Melo.
De Meulder opens the action to 525 from early position and Ali Ahmad calls in the big blind. The board is a very mundane 
and Ahmad makes a very audible check by banging the table with the palm of his hand. De Meulder made it 600 and Ahmad called. Ahmad again banged the table signifying that he wanted to check the 
turn and De Meulder followed suit. The river was the 
and again Ahmad banged the table but this time De Meulder bet; it was 1,100 and Ahmad folded immediately.
De Meulder min-raises from the button and the Small Blind folded before a laughing De Melo called in the Big Blind. Before the dealer could deliver the flop de Melo announced that he was checking in the dark. De Meulder bet 525 into a dark and moody flop of 
and De Melo folded.
"Check in the Dark! Don't bluff please?" Said De Meulder.
"Not really. It just felt like a cool thing to say." Said De Melo
Life's A Bichon
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Thomas Bichon, one of several Team PokerStars Pros playing today, is quietly accumulating chips with few showdowns so far. After the cutoff raised to 500, Bichon 3-bet to 1,500 from the small blind and continued his agression on the 
flop by betting 1,750. The cutoff called this bet, but Bichon threw out a 4,000 chip bet on the turn and his opponent quickly folded.
More Counts...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
||
|
34,800
4,800
|
4,800 |
|
|
||
|
34,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
|
||
|
25,500
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
|
|
||
|
17,500
500
|
500 |
|
11,925
-18,075
|
-18,075 |
|
|
||
No Coren-ation for Victoria
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Team Pokerstars Pro Victoria Coren has been eliminated at the start of level 3.
We did not see the actual hand play out and instead just caught her as she was leaving the room. She told us that she got it all-in with the nut flush and was beaten by her opponent's straight flush for a very unfortunate exit.
Portal Heads for the Door
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Just before the break, the tournament suffered the tragic loss of the rather lovely Alexia Portal in quite spectacular fashion.
The flop read 
when all the chips went in in a three-way showdown.
Portal: 
for bottom set
Player 2: 
for top set
Player 3: 
for the best kind of overpair
Turn:
River: making Player 3 a winning set of aces
"That's poker," said the philosophical Portal. She will not be repeating last year's excellent run (she came 10th here for €51,500) but we suspect she'll now be hitting the side events instead.