Main Event
Day 5 Started
2011 EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 5
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
The Penultimate Day at EPT Deauville
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Welcome to day five of EPT Deauville!
Today we start with 24 players who have had lashings of luck and a sllce of skill to manage to navigate themselves through 891 players. We are switching rooms and we move away from the cavernous annex and into the more cosy room in the Barriere Casino.
Each player is guaranteed a minimum of €23,000 and by the end of the day there will be only eight players remaining who will form our final table due to start at 12:00 tomorrow.
Leading the way today with 3,410,000 chips is Alex Wice who qualified for this event at Pokerstars.net. In fact there are no fewer than six players left who have either qualified through Pokerstars.net or Pokerstars.fr.
Tournament Director Thomas Kremser will kick us off at 12:00 and Team Pokernews will be bringing you the greatest coverage on the globe so stay tuned.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 2,000
We're Off!
The organization here is somewhat reminiscent of how poker tournaments used to be run way back in the day - the seat draw is for some reason a closely guarded secret among the casino staff, and the three Main Event tables have been squashed into the very furthest corner of the room, press banned from going inside the rail. Ascertaining what's going on at Alex Wice's table, tucked behind the other two where no press are permitted to go, may be a problem.
Nevertheless from the permitted distance it looks like all 24 players have taken their seats, and cards are in the air. Good luck, everybody.
The Early Action Here at Day Five
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Here are some of the early hands at the start of Day five.
Kaspars Renga opens the action under the gun with a raise of 56,000 and Fabian Holling calls in the big blind. The flop is 
and Holling check-calls a 72,000 bet by Renga. The turn is the 
and Holling once again checks and once again Renga bets and this time Holling folds.
Anthony Hnatow raises to 54,000 from the cut off and Fried Meulders three-bet on the button making it 123,000 to play. Action back on Hnatow and he four bet to 273,000 and Meulder mucked his hand.
Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski opened up the action with a raise to 61,000 and Williams Johnson three bet to 120,000. Nowak-Rogozinski thought for a while before four betting to 213,000 and Johnson folded showing the crowd the 
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Keosomphet Accompli
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Kevin Keosomphet raised, and Fried Meulders reraised to 92,000. Keosomphet went all in, Meulders made the call, and Keosomphet soon raced his way to a full double up.
Keosomphet: 
Meulders: 
Board: 
Keosomphet is at around a million now, Meulders reduced to 730,000.
Seat Draw!
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Finally the casino have relented. This is how the final three tables look:
Table 1
Seat 1: Laurent Polito
Seat 2: Julien Claudepierre
Seat 3: Emile Petit
Seat 4: Kevin Lambert
Seat 5: Alex Wice
Seat 6: Riccardo Giacalone
Seat 7: Fabrice Soulier
Seat 8: Martin Jacobson
Table 2
Seat 1: Kenny Hallaert
Seat 2: Zimnan Ziyard
Seat 3: Sebastien Bidinger
Seat 4: Lucien Cohen
Seat 5: Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski
Seat 6: William Johnson
Seat 7: Fabian Holling
Seat 8: Kaspars Renga
Table 3
Seat 1: Ruslan Prydryk
Seat 2: Thomas Finneran
Seat 3: Didier Mazairac
Seat 4: Kevin Keosomphet
Seat 5: Anthony Hnatow
Seat 6: Fried Meulders
Seat 7: Franck Pepe
Seat 8: Philip Jacobsen
Kenny Hallaert Set's Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski Up For a Fall
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Kenny Hallaert has just won a huge pot from Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski and this is how the action developed.
Hallaert raised making it 53,000 to play and Nowak-Rogozinski called in the blinds. The flop was 
and Nowak-Rogozinski check-called a bet of 71,000 from Hallaert. The turn was the 
and again Nowak-Rogozinski checked. Hallaert, looking like a little version of the Terminator, fired a second barrel and it was a substantial one, Nowak-Rogozinski called the 169,000 bet.
The river was the 
and the Pole checked for the third consecutive time and Hallaert bet for the third consecutive time. This time the bet was 444,000 and a call would mean that Nowak-Rogozinski would be left with around 700,000 behind should he call and lose.
After going into the tank for a very long time he eventually did make the call and tabled 
. Hallaert took the hand down after he tabled a flopped set 
Nowak-Rogozinski & Johnson Smell a Rat
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Lucien Cohen opened to 53,000 and Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski flat-called. William Johnson, however, repopped to 210,000. Cohen flat-called and Nowak-Rogozinski gave it up.
The flop came down 
and Cohen quickly announced all in for a little over 300,000. Equally swiftly, Johnson folded. Cohen, who's been using a tiny plastic rat as a card protector throughout the tournament, now reached into his bag and pulled out an enormous, larger than lifesize black plastic rat. We suspect that French gaming law does not permit rats of that size on the tables, though, as a few moments later it disappeared back into his bag.
Cohen: 850,000
Johnson: 1,050,000
Hnatow Takes a Big Piece of Pepe
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
We catch the action on a flop of 
and Franck Pepe and Anthony Hnatow and in the hand. Pepe checks to Hnatow who bets 36,000 and Pepe check-raises to 127,000 and Hnatow makes the call. The turn is the and Pepe slides a big stack of 251,000 across the line and Hnatow calls. The river is the and Pepe slows right down and checks. Hnatow ponders for a second before announcing he is all-in. Pepe goes into the tank before folding and we think it was a good fold as Hnatow flashed for the flopped set.