2013 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2013 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville

Final Results
Winner
Remi Castaignon
Winning Hand
33
Prize
€770,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,753,600
Entries
782
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Chips for Chouity

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Nicholas Chouity
Nicholas Chouity

After stumbling a bit early on to fall below 20,000, Nicolas Chouity has been active during the last orbit at Table 18, with the results pushing his stack back up over the 30,000-chip starting mark.

Just one hand after knocking out Yves Maison, Chouity was back at it raising to 425 from middle position. It folded back to Janos Nagygyorgy in the small blind who reraised to 1,125 from the small blind. Chouity called, and the pair watched the flop come {5-Clubs}{K-Spades}{4-Clubs}.

Nagygyorgy fired a continuation bet of 950, and Chouity called. The turn brought the {7-Diamonds} and another bet from Nagygyorgy, this time for 2,650. Chouity called once more.

The river was the {8-Hearts}, and this time Nagygyorgy pushed out a pot-proportionately smaller bet of 2,700. Chouity didn't hesitate very long before announcing he was all in, and with minimal delay Nagygyorgy let his hand go.

Chouity showed one card — the {9-Diamonds} — then scooped the pot. "Pocket nines?" asked Nagygyorgy, but Chouity had no response. "Ace-queen," said Nagygyorgy of his own hand.

Chouity may or may not have heard him. In any case, the next hand was soon dealt, and Chouity was opening with a raise once again.

Player Chips Progress
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
36,000
18,000
18,000
EPT 1X Winner

Tags: Nicolas Chouity

Fish and Chips

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Here's a selection of chip counts from around the room.

Player Chips Progress
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
58,300
8,300
8,300
EPT 1X Winner
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
49,100
11,100
11,100
Arnaud Mattern fr
Arnaud Mattern
46,250
16,250
16,250
EPT 1X Winner
Zimnan Ziyard gb
Zimnan Ziyard
44,000
-11,000
-11,000
EPT 1X Winner
Ignat Liviu ro
Ignat Liviu
43,900
43,900
43,900
Sam Grafton gb
Sam Grafton
43,000
43,000
43,000
Ruben Visser nl
Ruben Visser
41,200
41,200
41,200
EPT 1X Winner
James Mitchell gb
James Mitchell
39,250
3,250
3,250
Paul Berende nl
Paul Berende
32,900
500
500
Marc Inizan fr
Marc Inizan
28,300
28,300
28,300
Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
27,000
18,000
18,000
John Eames gb
John Eames
26,100
-3,900
-3,900
Isabelle Mericer
Isabelle Mericer
25,500
25,500
25,500
Ashley Mason
Ashley Mason
24,000
24,000
24,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
12,725
-16,275
-16,275
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
4,850
-25,150
-25,150

Gromov Grounded

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Dimitry Gromov will not be adding an EPT title to the WPT Vienna gong he already owns because he has just been eliminated from the main event.

We joined the action on a {5-Hearts}{5-Spades}{4-Diamonds} flop where Gromov was all-in for around 7,500 chips with {8-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} and Vincent Fouret had called with his {A-Clubs}{A-Diamonds}. The turn and river were the {q-Diamonds} and {K-Spades} respectively, and Gromov sheepishly headed to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Dimitry Gromov
Dimitry Gromov
Busted

Tags: Vincent FouretDimitry Gromov

Danchev's Run-Good Runs Out

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Antoine Saout
Antoine Saout

Dimitar Danchev must've thought his luck was never going to run out after he and Antoine Saout committed all their chips pre flop in a 75,000-chip pot; the former held aces to the latter's kings, you see.

The reigning PCA champ was loathed though at a board that ran out {k-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{7-Hearts} to make Saout a winning set. After a countdown it was confirmed that Danchev was out. Don't feel too sorry for him, he did just win $1,859,000 in paradise a couple of weeks ago.

Player Chips Progress
Antoine Saout fr
Antoine Saout
78,000
47,200
47,200
Dimitar Danchev bg
Dimitar Danchev
Busted
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner

Tags: Antoine SaoutDimitar Danchev

Ferrage Calls Down Bourson

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Eugene Katchalov started the preflop betting round with a min-raise to 400, a raise that saw the next two player fold, Stephane Bourson call, Grzegorz Derkowski call (on the button), Francois Scapula call (small blind) and Olivier Ferrage call too (big blind). Probably not the action Katchalov expected!

Flop: {3-Clubs}{A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} - The play checked around to Bourson and he bet 800. Derkowski folded but the other active players called.

Turn: {9-Hearts} – Again, the action passed to Bourson and he took the lead with a more substantial 3,000 bet. This time around, only Ferrage called.

River: {8-Clubs} – Ferrage, now heads-up, checked for a third time and Bourson sat upright before resigning himself to checking behind.

Bourson mucked as Ferrage revealed the {A-Diamonds}{q-Spades} for a pair of aces.

Tags: Eugene KatchalovStephane BoursonGrzegorz DerkowskiFrancois ScapulaOlivier Ferrage

Rousso Rolling

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso

Vanessa Rousso and Ilan Boujenah are sitting side-by-side, having therefore been forced to battle one another for pots frequently this afternoon. And now Rousso has recruited Boujenah to play a game of backgammon on her iPad, thus giving the pair another way to match wits.

That game just took a turn for the worse for Rousso, as both players are in the midst of bearing off, and Boujenah just rolled double 2's to enable him to remove four more checkers.

Meanwhile, Rousso was raising to 550 from middle position, picking up three callers in the hijack, cutoff, and big blind. The flop came {Q-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}, and when checked to Rousso fired a bet of 1,500, forcing folds all around and giving her the pot.

She stacked the chips with one hand while tapping to roll again with the other, hoping her next turn works out as well as that hand.

Player Chips Progress
Vanessa Rousso us
Vanessa Rousso
38,000
-1,650
-1,650
Ilan Boujenah il
Ilan Boujenah
26,000
10,700
10,700

Tags: Vanessa Rousso

Jacobson Almost gets the Lot

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante
Martin Jacobson
Martin Jacobson

Martin Jacobson and Bartlomiej Ryszard Machon tangled in a pot that left the latter with just 800 chips to play with.

Around 2,900 had made in into the middle by the time the two players hit the turn of a {6-Spades}{9-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{j-Hearts} board. Jacobson led for 1,550 from the big blind and Machon called to see the {8-Diamonds} river. The Swede bet 3,400 here and Macon called and mucked upon seeing {j-Clubs}{10-Clubs}.

Player Chips Progress
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
38,000
2,700
2,700

Tags: Martin JacobsonBartlomiej Ryszard Machon