An 889-player field (two fewer than last year) generated a prize pool of €4,267,200. The final 128 players will make the money with a min cash coming in at €7,500.
Here are the final table payouts. For the rest check out our payouts tab.
PokerStars.fr Qualifier Julien Ferey has been among the big stacks for most of the day, but it certainly wasn't hands like the following that put him there:
We caught up with the action on the flop, where Ferey was betting 2,100 chips into a 3500-chip pot. One player made the call and they went heads-up to the turn, where that player led out for 3,500.
Ferey made the call, and when his opponent checked the river, he fired out a 6,300-chip bet.
His opponent called and Ferey's holdings hit the muck before he was even shown the winning hand.
After the under-the-gun player raised to 1,600 and the next player to act called, a third player shoved for 5,450 on the button. Ludovic Lacay re-raised to 11,000 from the big blind and pushed the others out.
Lacay tabled , but ran into . The board ran out , knocking Lacay down to about 68,000.