Deauville in all it's Glamour
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,211,200
Entries
671
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Ghassanis Battles the Table
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Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Ibrahim Ghassanis from Lebanon is the big stack at the table since doubling up against Watts (since busted) aces versus kings. He is enjoying himself at the table raising every hand to the bemusement of the rest of the table who seem to regard him with a touch of disdain. Ghassanis seems to be playing along with it as he is getting teased by the younger members of the table and he is holding his own. After all, he has the big stack of chips.
Ghassanis raised his usual 1,200 preflop in first position and it fell to Laurent Bachelet to defend this time as he made the call from middle position. Everyone else folded and they saw a flop of 
. Ghassanis continued for 1,700 and Bachelet made what appeared to be an uncertain call. The turn was the 
. Ghassanis now bet a slightly smaller 1,250. It took a bit longer but again Bachelet made the call. The 
on the river and now Ghassanis checked. Bachelet reached for chips and bet 4,500. Ghassanis made a quick call and tabled 
but it was no good against the 
of Bachelet. The table were slightly taken aback and a visibly annoyed Ghassanis left the table for a few minutes to recover his composure.
Cheuxed Up
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
The bottom of Erwann Pecheux's world has just fallen out. The Frenchman got in a raising war against Omar Lakhdari with each player putting over 45,000 preflop.
Lakhdari: 
Pecheux: 
The board came 
and Lakhdari moved up to almost 100,000 while Pecheux was left crippled with barely ten big blinds left.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
95,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos Out
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
His name is almost longer than the post we're writing about his bust out. Athanasios Polychronopoulos ran into ace king with his pocket nines. His 15,000 stack went the other way as his opponent improved and he did not. The WSOP 2013 bracelet winner is out of the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
High Phees
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
A flop of 
was checked around to James Metcalf who bet 2,200. Kaspars Renga and Kevin MacPhee both made the call to see the 
on the turn.
This time all three players checked and the dealer put out the on the river.
Renga checked and MacPhee bet 6,300. Metcalf and Renga both folded and MacPhee moved back up to 34,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
34,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
||
Bhaggoe Cracks Aces
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Eduard Bhaggoe has played multiple EPT's and was rather successful in the one he attended this season. He made a deep run in Barcelona at the beginning of the season where he finished 7th for €143,000.
With a big characteristic smile Bhaggoe just told us how he had cracked aces with kings preflop all in. Bhaggoe had opened the hand himself and wasn't about to fold when he got some action behind him.
His opponent had aces but would get a bad beat after a king hit the flop. The turn brought a third spade to the table and Bhagoe's opponent did have the 
. The river paired the board though, giving Bhaggoe a fullhouse and securing him the double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
44,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
The Red Spade Review
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
All of the Team PokerStars Pros who began Day 1B remain in the hunt as the night's next-to-last level comes to a close, as is Friend of PokerStars Natalie Hof albeit with a short stack. After knocking out EPT9 Monte Carlo Grand Final champion Steve O'Dwyer earlier, Luca Pagano presently has the most chips of those sporting the red spades, as reported on the PokerStars Blog.
Pagano Can't Beat Aces
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
When we arrived at Luca Pagano's table he was already stacks deep into a pot with Frenchman Nazim Guillaud.
The entire board was already out there and displayed 
. Pagano had checked to Guillaud who bet 8,500. Pagano went into the tank and eventually tossed in two 5,000 chips.
He would only receive 1,500 back though, as Guillaud showed and the Italian Team PokerStars Pro had to muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,000
-23,000
|
-23,000 |
|
||
Rinzed
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Fahd Kaabat opened for 1,200 and was called by the player sat to his immediate left, David Zakine. It folded round to Daniel Rinzis who shoved his small stack. Kaabat folded but Zakine made the call with . He was up against the at risk player’s 
. The final board read 
and Rinzis was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Beer is Here
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Jake Cody opened for 1,200 in first position. Pierre Calamusa called from mid-position and Gareth Teatum from the big blind threw in the extra chips. The dealer dealt a flop of 
and the waitress arrived to deliver Teatum’s beer. (To be fair he’s not the only one to be enjoying a post dinner drink). He checked, Cody checked and a bet of 2,100 won the pot for Calamusa.