Twenty Minutes Break
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The first break of the day has just started. We'll be back in twenty minutes.
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 2
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
Day 1 Chip Leader out as Zbib Busts
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Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We didn't catch it first hand but Day 1 chip leader Ayman Zbib, who started the day with 181,400, is out. His starting table was one of the first to break so whilst we can't go there to get information we're going to try our best to get some details on his demise. He's not the only one to have busted during level 10 as Thibault Renwick, Kajetan Masiewicz, Sergio Aido, Jerry Odman, Mikael Sebbagh, Kuljinder Sidhu, Jonathan Beck, Namig Jafarov, [Removed:37], Benoit Gury, Nicolas Duquenne, Heikki Piira, Gordon Huntly, Arkadiusz Peitsch, Jochum Weenink, Kevin Vincent, Albert Daher, Otto Richard, Anthony Pacini...
Marc Lesur, Tobias Peters, Linh Tran, Artem Perepelkin, Helder Teixeira, Jerome Arnould, Stephen Elmalem, Pavel Zuev, Darko Stojanovic, David Zenou, Mateusz Moolhuizen, Flip Bedzinski, Erik Olofsson, Timur Margolin, Marcelo Fonseca, Benjamin Pollak, Eduard Bhaggoe, Thomas Brader, Christophe Malaurie, Elias Talvitie, Miguel Pereira-Silva, Alain Bauer and Bryan Paris are all out.
313 players remain.
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Eighters Gonna Eight
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Ooh, Walid Bou Habib, you lucky boy! Last year's runner-up in this event was all in preflop with 
against Dmitry Shchepkin's 
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The 
flop was promising, the 
on the turn doubly so and the 
river made Habib an eight-high straight to survive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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60,000 | 33,400 |
English Please
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
An interesting four way hand developed between Martin Schleich, Pierre Calamusa, Yoni Journo and Philippe Ktorza. It was three-bet preflop and they saw a flop of 
. Pierre Calamusa decided to have a bet at it to the value of 4,000 but that didn’t deter any of the other three players. They saw a turn card 
which lead to a whole lot of checking and a river card 
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Philippe Ktorza was first to act in the big blind and threw out 10,200 getting rid of two players but seemingly leaving Yoni Journo with a dilemma. He puzzled it over for a while before relinquishing his cards. As Ktorza gathered the chips a conversation broke out in French which seemed to imply that Ktorza didn’t have a piece of the board and Journo feeling that he had been bluffed. Hard enough to tell who is telling the truth when it’s in English so what he had is anyone’s guess!
Lellouche Doing Not So Good
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Antony Lellouche has just lost back to back pots for vast chunks of his 175,000 stack that he had rapidly accumulated over the last hour or so.
First he lost with 
to Christian Aris' 
on a 
board for a 30,000 pot. Then in the very next hand, he lost with to Romain Baert's on a 
board for a 92,000 pot.
Lellouche finished second at EPT San Remo the year Jason Mercier won the event. Could this be his year?
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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110,000 | -65,000 |
Lellouche Doing Good
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Niels van Leeuwen won the PokerStars.fr FPS Main Event earlier this week, and ran good on day 1B yesterday as well. Today he ran into Antony Lellouche though in a big pot. Van Leeuwen three bet the French experienced pro with pocket jacks and a call followed. Lellouche check called a bet on 
and both players checked on the blank on the turn. The river was another blank and Lellouche bet big. Van Leeuwen made the call but his jacks were beat by Lellouche's 
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Lellouche must have been winning more pots, he's up to almost 200,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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190,000 | 138,700 |
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Reporting from a Room Called Bond… James Bond
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Here in the Casino Barrière the meeting rooms are all named after movie characters, a nod to the famous film festival that descends upon Deauville each year. We are reporting on the tourney from a room (or "salle") called Bond… James Bond.
As it happens, the famous British Secret Service agent began his fictional life in a casino very similar to the one in which the tournament is being played. Ian Fleming introduced Bond in his 1953 novel Casino Royale, which is set in a northern France city (Royale-les-Eaux) based in large part on Deauville where Fleming gambled in a casino as a young man. Read more about the connections between Agent 007 and Deauville on the PokerStars blog.
Theissen Gets Unlucky to Bust
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Pre-flop Eric Theissen was in great shape to double up through Miroslav Alilovic but unfortunately for him there are also five community cards. Alilovic had opened to 2,200 from the cut-off with , Theissen had jammed for 28,700 from the small blind with [Ad and after thinking it over Alilovic called from a stack of 47,000 total. The 
flop meant Theissen was drawing dead by the river.
Wetemans the Comeback Kid
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
EPT regular Jasper Wetemans already was the subject of several posts today, but his comeback is so impressive we have to write about him once again. At one point he had just 1,300 in chips left, now he has a staggering 72,000.
With a 35,700 stack he was seated in the big blind holding 
. The button opened to 2,200 and Wetemans made it 5,500. The player on the button wasn't about to let his pocket eights go and just shoved all in. Wetemans made the call and hit the jackpot on the flop: 
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Wetemans wasn't totally save yet, but the on the turn secured his double up. The 
on the river couldn't save the button if his life depended on it, the Dutch player now has a way above average stack again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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72,000 | 39,000 |
Katchalov Donk Leads
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Yerai Iribarren opened the action for 2,000 and got two callers, Vincent Guillon sat to his left and in the big blind Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov. They saw a flop of 
. Katchalov decided to take th initiative with a bet of 3,000. Iribarren made the call and Guillon opted out. The 
on the turn was a check from Katchalov and a bet of 5,500 from Iribarren saw the chips heading his way.