Daher Has Commanding Lead Going Into Final Day of High Roller
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Albert Daher from Lebanon ended the day as the chip leader of the final eight players with a 1,300,000. That is nearly twice as much as his nearest rival Martin Schleich from Germany, who is in second place with 762,000, while Ondrej Vinklarek from the Czech Republic lies in third with 737,000.
After final entrants and re-buys were completed the prize pools was announced and 17 places would be payed. The winner will be taking home a whopping €272,000 with €189,000 for second and €122,000 for third.
Albert Daher went from risk of elimination to winning a massive pot from Losev and after that he never looked back.
The action was fairly frenetic throughout the first few levels of play with players regularly falling by the wayside, including Toby Lewis who busted with a badly timed bluff , Sergio Aido and Dominik Nitsche.
The action slowed down when they reached 18 players and the money bubble. It took an hour and fifty minutes before a huge three-way all-in on the feature table saw one player having a monster stack and another almost being felted. It folded to Dominik Panka on the button who raised to 16,000, Ramin Hajiyev three-bet to 41,000 from the small blind and Michael Tureniec then moved all-in for 301,000 total. Back on Panka he moved all-in for 264,000 and Hajiev called all-in behind for 245,000. Panka had 
Hajiyev the 
Tureniec 
. The cards ran out 
and Ramin Hajiyev was the one left empty-handed.
The chip leader at the start of the day, Marton Czuczor, was crippled when he got involved in another a three way all in pot and he was eliminated soon after in 12th place.
The only Team PokerStars Pro to make it through to Day 2 was Alex Kravchenko who fell in 10th place when he shoved from the small blind only to run in to the 
of Daher. The cards ran out 
and he went away with €22,800 for his two days of work.
Martin Staszko was unlucky to bubble the final table. He got his chips in with 
against the of Kent Lundmark. The cards ran out 
making a flush for Lundmark who barely covered the stack of the Czech player; Staszko could only end up walking away from the table in a daze.
Play resumes at noon tomorrow CET and it is guaranteed to be a fascinating day. Eight different countries are represented at the final table and they all have impressive track records. Follow the blow by blow reports as your PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you the action as they fight it out for a prize worth over a quarter of a million Euros and the title of PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville High Roller Champion.
| Seat | Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Schleich | 762,000 |
| 2 | Nikolay Losev | 523,000 |
| 3 | Davidi Kitai | 733,000 |
| 4 | Adrian Mateos Diaz | 363,000 |
| 5 | Kent Lundmark | 665,000 |
| 6 | Dominik Panka | 672,000 |
| 7 | Albert Daher | 1,300,000 |
| 8 | Ondrej Vinklarek | 737,000 |