Main Event
Day 5 Started
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Deauville
Prize Pool
€4,627,200
Entries
889
Level
34
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
30,000
Pagano Leads The Final 24
Welcome to Day 5 of the 2012 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville. After five days (with two Day 1 flights), the starting field of 889 players is down to just 24 hopefuls, each with the goal of navigating his way to the final table. Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano is on top of the pack with 3,561,000. He began Day 4 near the bottom of the chip counts, but vaulted up the leader board in less than one level yesterday and never looked back.
Play is scheduled to continue at noon local time, about an hour from now, and will commence until the final table of eight players is reached. Keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day for all of the exciting action as it takes place.
Here is the Day 5 table and seat draw:
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Olivier Rogez | 2,668,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Vuong Than Trong | 871,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Andre Corredoira | 1,310,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Paul Guichard | 1,700,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Sergey Baburin | 438,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Antonio Guerrero | 519,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Chris Brammer | 1,262,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Kevin Vandersmissen | 737,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Marc Inizan | 481,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Luca Pagano | 3,561,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Bruno Jais | 970,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Vadim Kursevich | 1,815,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Patrick Nataf | 360,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Rob Stain | 816,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Christian Togsverd | 1,271,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Etienne Moudaress | 650,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Denis Cheremisin | 1,117,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Yorane Kerignard | 1,124,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Karim Lehoussine | 382,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Artem Litvinov | 1,193,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Nikolaus Teichert | 471,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Ignat Liviu | 1,303,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Rumen Nanev | 1,052,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Mick Graydon | 723,000 |
Almost Set To Go
The players are taking their seats and play is expected to begin shortly.
It's Toasty Inside But Outside...
Level: 24
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000
Play is Underway
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
The show is under way. We've got two tables, or 16 players to lose before we reach the final table of eight players. That's when play will pause until tomorrow. How long will that take? Who knows. Stayed tuned and we'll all find out together.
Teichert Doubles on First Hand
It didn't take long for the action to get going at the outer tables. On table three Nikolaus Teichert open shoved for 487,000 from under the gun. Artem Litvinov was in the big blind and tanked for three minutes before calling.
Litvinov: 
Teichert: 
The board ran out 
.
The German paired his kicker and banged both fists down on the table in celebration.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
980,000 | 509,000 |
|
700,000 | -493,000 |
King Kursevich
The two biggest stacks at the feature table have butted heads already, with chip leader Luca Pagano and Vadzim Kursevich going at it in the first hand here on Day 5.
The hand began with Pagano making it 51k from the button and Kursevich three-betting from the big blind, making it 157k. Luca called and the flop fell 
.
Kursevich made a 155k continuation bet and Pagano flatted again. He fired another 275k bullet at the 
turn, but could not shake Pagano.
Finally, after the river, Kursevich bet 430,000 and again Pagano called with 
, but second pair was not good enough.
Kursevich held 
and after adding the chips to his stack, he moved into the chip lead above Pagano.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,800,000 | 985,000 |
|
2,500,000 | -1,061,000 |
Karim Lehoussine Eliminated in 24th Place (€23,000)
Denis Cheremisin opened to 50,000 in the hijack and Karim Lehoussine shoved from the button for 343,000. Action folded back to Cheremisin who called with . Lehoussine tabled 
and appeared primed to double up.
However, the board came down 
as Cheremisin spiked a jack on the flop and river to eliminate Lehoussine.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,525,000 | 408,000 |
|
Busted |
Kevin Vandersmissen Eliminated in 23rd Place (€23,000)
Kevin Vandersmissen opened to 48,000 under the gun and Andre Corredoira called from the hijack. Paul Guichard then re-raised to 134,000 from the cutoff, getting through the button and the blinds. Vandersmissen responded by shoving for roughly 670,000. Corredoira ducked out of the way, but Guichard called.
Vandersmissen: 
Guichard:
The board fell 
, ending Vandersmissen's Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,250,000 | 700,000 |
|
Busted |