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James Dempsey's pursuit of poker's triple crown started fast today.
The WSOP and WPT title holder raised it up in one of the first few hands only to see a three-bet from tablemate Gabriel Houle Morin.
He flat called the 17,500, but led out for 22k on the 
flop, forcing Morin to fold and taking the early pot down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
295,000 | 20,400 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2012 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville. The starting field of 889 players has been whittled down to 178 following 14 levels of play. The money will be reached at 128 players and we will surely get there today. Leading the way with 512,200 is Martins Adeniya after an excellent Day 2.
Team PokerStars was well represented in the event, but only one remains heading into play today. EPT cashing wizard Luca Pagano is always a threat and with an above-average stack of 172,400 he'll surely be somebody to keep an eye on.
Here are the top ten chip counts to emerge following Day 2:
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martins Adeniya | 512,200 |
| 2 | Brahim Oubella | 452,000 |
| 3 | Artem Litvinov | 397,100 |
| 4 | Ludovic Lacay | 377,300 |
| 5 | Jason Hallee | 375,900 |
| 6 | [Removed:167] | 363,600 |
| 7 | Chris Karagulleyan | 360,700 |
| 8 | Andre Vieira Andrade | 345,000 |
| 9 | Fehmi Cherif | 338,400 |
| 10 | Samphane Phomveha | 334,800 |
Play is scheduled to continue at noon local time, a little more than an hour from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day for live updates.
Pierre Nousse 1 1
Mikael Cavailles 1 2
Patrick Nataf 1 3
Nikolaus Teichert 1 4
Julien Claudepierre 1 5
Todd Terry 1 6
Toby Lewis 1 7
Fabrice Yoni Journo 1 8
Martins Adeniya 2 1
Agris Klaise 2 2
Sigurd Eskeland 2 3
Julien Ferey 2 4
Yoann Amaudry 2 5
Frederic Brunet 2 6
Robert Cazali 2 7
Bruno Jais 2 8
David Lichentin 3 1
Jean Yves Malherbe 3 2
Anthony Pacini 3 3
Sebastien Boyard 3 4
Shannon Shorr 3 5
Grzegorz Derkowski 3 6
Alexandre Amiel 3 7
Marc Inizan 3 8
Amirouddine Alibay 4 1
James Dempsey 4 2
Gabriel Houle Morin 4 3
Christian Togsverd 4 4
Olivier Rogez 4 5
Dan Djorno 4 6
Christopher Brammer 4 7
Marchel Masaladzhiu 4 8
Olivier Ferrage 5 1
Jean Jacques Mars 5 2
Jean Louis Perez 5 3
Pierre Guillaume Calamusa 5 4
Nicolas Chappuis 5 5
Heinz Kamutzki 5 6
Paul Guichard 5 7
Slobodan Bjelobrk 5 8
Martin Lesjo 6 1
Gheorghe Gradinaru 6 2
Niclas Martinsson 6 3
Sergio Castelluccio 6 4
Alex Meierhofer 6 5
Govert Metaal 6 6
Ilan Boujenah 6 7
Philippe Ktorza 6 8
Mohsin Charania 7 1
Balazs Botond 7 2
Artem Litvinov 7 3
Chris Karagulleyan 7 4
Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu 7 5
Pavel Perfilov 7 6
Gheorghe Sandulescu 7 7
Eric Fourniols 7 8
Antonio Guerrero 8 1
Mikhail Lakhitov 8 2
Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes 8 3
Matthieu Lamagnere 8 4
Zbib Ayman 8 5
Mikael Guenni 8 6
Julian Kabitzke 8 7
Mendel Benoit 8 8
Eric Nhouyvanisvong 9 1
Leandre Omeir 9 2
Seth Davies 9 3
Michael Dogliani 9 4
Thomas Launay 9 5
Benjamin Saada 9 6
Mark Emberson 9 7
Koen De Visscher 9 8
Samphane Phomveha 10 1
Kristijonas Andrulis 10 2
Rony Halimi 10 3
Andre Vieira Andrade 10 4
Marko Neumann 10 5
Pierre Cecco 10 6
Simon Taberham 10 7
Eric Sadoun 10 8
Rodrigo Milo Scartezini 11 1
Witold Krawczyk 11 2
Pierre Barthelemy 11 3
Sven Ellrich 11 4
Stephane Dossetto Magnani 11 5
Rumen Nanev 11 6
Ignat Liviu 11 7
Guillaume Wilhem 11 8
Jean Pierre Lacombe 12 1
Brahim Oubella 12 2
Lucille Cailly 12 3
Mathieu Biague 12 4
Rodrigo Zimmermann 12 5
Vuong Than Trong 12 6
Michael Maitre 12 7
Kirill Zapletin 12 8
Ismail Erkenov 13 1
Mikael Johansson 13 2
Douglas Ferreira 13 3
Jason Hallee 13 4
Luca Pagano 13 5
Jean Marc Rigaill 13 6
Mihai Manole 13 7
Ralph Kalman 13 8
Andre Corredoira Blanco 14 1
Bernhard Mossner 14 2
Abdel Kader Boukbir 14 3
Florent Leprovost 14 4
Christophe Denizart 14 5
Denis Cheremisin 14 6
Carlos Lopez 14 7
Mick Graydon 14 8
Sylvain Taddei 15 1
Costa Bataille 15 2
Yohann Aube 15 3
Bartosz Kocinski 15 4
Christos Coufogiorgis 15 5
Choua Sitbon 15 6
Roland Larsson 15 7
Mustapha Kanit 15 8
Michel Dominique Dubert 16 1
Laurent Dumontier 16 2
Marc MacDonnell 16 3
Gilbert Diaz 16 4
Ondrej Vinklarek 16 5
Jean Daligault 16 6
Wiik Kenneth 16 7
Abdellatif Salah 16 8
Herve Boulan 17 1
David Moton 17 2
Jean Charles Valois 17 3
Raphael Kroll 17 4
Fehmi Cherif 17 5
Mark Jansen 17 6
Vadzim Kursevich 17 7
Petru Moraru 17 8
David Colin 18 1
Marius Torbergsen 18 2
Denis Patout 18 3
Samuel Wrobel 18 4
Nicolas Renee 18 5
Yury Kerzhapkin 18 6
Paul Berende 18 7
Marco Della Tommasina 19 1
Kevin Vandersmissen 19 2
Herve Halfon 19 3
Sebastien Comel 19 4
Suat Uyanik 19 5
Marius Pospiech 19 6
[Removed:167] 19 7
David Baker 20 1
Benjamin Saboy 20 2
Vesa Leikos 20 3
Tobias Peters 20 4
Xavier Detournel 20 5
Serge Adelski 20 6
Ari Engel 20 7
Yorane Kerignard 21 1
Guy Tomaselli 21 2
Claude Marbleu 21 3
Christophe Rusca 21 4
Anton Ionel 21 5
Gereon Sowa 21 6
Aleksander Pereworucha 21 7
Sergey Baburin 22 1
Joseph Mouawad 22 2
Pierre Drochon 22 3
Yannick Massa 22 4
Oscar Serradell Iscla 22 5
Etienne Moudaress 22 6
Jannik Moser 22 7
Steve Samuel Berdah 23 1
Alain Roy 23 2
Rob Stain 23 3
Philippe Sintes 23 4
Anthony Picault 23 5
Karim Lehoussine 23 6
Ludovic Lacay 23 7
Main Event
Day 3 Started
