Former EPT Grand Final winner, Nicolas Choiuty, has seen a frustrating day come to an end.
He told us he was short all day and finally pushed with four-five. He was called by an opponent holding ace-queen and that was that.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
A short-stacked Stephane Kalfon opened with a button raise, then Arnaud Mattern reraised from the small blind, forcing a fold from his neighbor to the left. Kalfon responded with an all-in push and Mattern made the call.
Kalfon showed 
and Mattern 
. The flop came 
and Kalfon was still ahead. The turn then brought another black card — the 
— pairing Kalfon while giving Mattern a gutshot to Broadway. The dealer burned a card and turned over the river — the 
— and Kalfon doubled up to survive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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36,000 | -10,250 |
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19,500 | 19,500 |
3b squeeze AK Russian cold calls from blinds A73sss they c/c turn 5 they check/jam 55. 100k pot got 11k left #eptdeauvilleFebruary 03 2013Follow
The Russian in question was Sergii Baranov who joins a select few on six figures.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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11,000 | -47,300 |
Patrick Schuhl has just increased his chip lead after a huge three-way all in pot saw him get luck to bust two players.
Isaac [Removed:250] had pocket aces and another player had ace-king. Our Hero had pocket queens and made a set on the river to scoop the lot and claim two scalps.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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155,000 | 33,000 |
Lucien Cohen checked on the river of a 
board against Thomas Pinet, the latter quickly moved all in for 11,650 into a pot containing roughly 15,000.
Cohen pretended to be interested but gave up without much thought after about 30 seconds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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40,000 | -10,000 |
Vojtech Ruzicka opened with a standard raise from middle position, Marc-Andre Ladouceur reraised to 2,400 from across the table, then Ruzicka reraised back to 5,300. Ladouceur asked how much Ruzicka had left — about 25,000 — and after about a half-minute the Canadian declared he was all in, and Ruzicka instacalled.
Ladouceur tabled 
, and Ruzicka quickly turned over his hand — 
. Both remained at full attention after the 
flop, but the turn removed the suspense and made the 
river inconsequential. They chopped up the pot, and as we approach the dinner break both players find themselves just a bit north of the 30,000-chip starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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33,000 | 12,000 |
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31,000 | 31,000 |
Elisabeth Hille has shown she is not to be messed with after giving a brief lesson of power poker to David Pishvafar.
The action folded to Hille in middle position and she opened to 800. The next player folded but Pishvafer three-bet to 2,050. The remaining players had seen enough and they each folded in turn back to Hille.
Hille reclaimed her original bet and replaced it with 5,200. Pishvafer was not prepared to pay that amount and he sent his cards back towards the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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48,300 | -5,700 |
PokerStars qualifier Jesper Feddersen is making hay, a lot of hay, a veritable haystack if you will. Niclas Fjellstrom fired out 5,500 but then folded when Feddersen chucked out 25,000 to set him all in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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115,000 | 115,000 |
Sebastian Gohr has just moved all in preflop in a hand against a man who declared his love for eating brains!
Cast your mind back to the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event and you may recall Sergii Baranov came out with an infamous speech about how Ukrainians "like to eat the brains of their enemies!" It appears cannibalism does not scare Gohr because he just took on Baranov, and won, by pushing him around preflop.
We missed the first bets but saw Gohr with 5,000 in front of him and Baranov with chips totalling 13,000 in front of him. Gohr was deep in the tank, so deep that he had the clock called on him. As one of the floor staff approached to begin the countdown, Gohr moved all in for 34,400 in total, putting the pressure back onto Baranov.
After around 90 seconds, Baranov's hand was sent into the muck and Gohr escaped with his chips and brains intact.
Despite being firmly in French territory, there is something of a British home game going on. Now seated on the same table are two former EPT champions in Zimnan Ziyard and David Vamplew, and we also have James Mitchell and John Eames keeping them company.
It's probably not the easiest table in the world, especially when you consider it is Day 1a of a major France-based tournament, but these guys will cope we are sure.
