2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a3
Prize
€614,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,211,200
Entries
671
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 671
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Break

Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

15 minute breaks for the players. The 500 chips will be colored up, the ante is a 1,000 from the next level on.

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

Pay Jump

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

The players still remaining are now gueranteed €10,790. The following two players just miss out on that extra €1,290:

72Ihar Soika€9,500
73Keith Johnson€9,500
Player Chips Progress
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Ihar Soika
Busted
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Keith Johnson
Busted

Ziyard Can't Win

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Zimnan Ziyard hasn't been running all that well the last couple of levels. First he had to fold an overpair of jacks on the river against Dimitri Holdeew who check-raised the river big.

Just now he lost with {9-Hearts}{9-Clubs} preflop all in against Carlo De Benedittis' {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds} for 59,000 each. The {3-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{2-Spades}{K-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} board wasn't doing the gentleman who started the day out in second place any good.

Player Chips Progress
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Zimnan Ziyard
185,000
114,000
114,000
EPT 1X Winner
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Carlo De Benedittis
120,000
14,000
14,000

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Huge Double Up for Tatu Maenpaa

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Tatu Maenpaa is now up to almost 700,000 after getting a huge double up against Giuliano Bendinelli. The Italian opened to 12,000, Maenpaa three-bet to 29,000 on the button, back on Bendinelli he four-bet to 72,000. After a couple of minutes thought Maenpaa five-bet to 120,000 total with roughly 220,000 behind.

Bendinelli had roughly 415,000 behind and he elected to use all of it and announced all-in, after a quick look at his cards Maenpaa announced call.

Bendinelli: {A-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}
Maenpaa: {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}

The {10-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} board kept the Finn in front, he had 339,000 to start the hand so is up to 690,000 whilst Bendinelli is down to 151,000.

Player Chips Progress
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Tatu Maenpaa
690,000
500,000
500,000
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Giuliano Bendinelli
151,000
291,500
291,500
EPT 1X Winner

Agerskov Doubles Up

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

A double up for short stack Rasmus Agerskov who pushed with {Q-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} and found Jerome Zerbib making the call with {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}

The board was a fairly conclusive {10-Clubs}{10-Spades}{7-Spades}{7-Hearts}{K-Clubs} - Agerskov jumping up to 100,000 and Zerbib short with just 80,000.

Player Chips Progress
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Rasmus Agerskov
100,000
287,000
287,000
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Jerome Zerbib
80,000
7,000
7,000

Aces Cracked Twice

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Two hands from the feature table, both involving Pasquale Grimaldi and both saw aces getting cracked.

In the first Julia Vassort was all-in for 104,000 with {A-Spades}{A-Clubs} from under-the-gun+1 and Grimaldi, who had 180,000 total, made the call with {9-Diamonds}{9-Spades}. The {5-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}{9-Spades}{10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} board meant Grimaldi flopped a set and Vassort was eliminated.

A couple of hands later Grimaldi opened with {A-Spades}{A-Hearts} and then called after Gheorghe Gradinaru moved all-in for 209,000 with {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}. The {8-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{6-Spades} board gave Grandinaru the win and boosted him to 437,000 whilst Grimaldi is down to 83,000.

A few hands later Grimaldi was out when his K-6 lost out to Florian Montes' K-Q.

Player Chips Progress
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Gheorghe Gradinaru
437,000
292,000
292,000
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Julia Vassort
Busted
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Pasquale Grimaldi
Busted

Geilich Chipping Up Steadily

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Ludovic Geilich
Ludovic Geilich

Ludovic Geilich is a happy man at the moment, talking strategy and hand ranges with a couple of his table mates. He earlier claimed to have been card dead all day but that hasn’t stopped his increasing his stack. As he succinctly explained to the table: “Had one oh five bascically trebled through and nobody’s seen anything. COME ON!”

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Why Poker Will Never Be Like an Action Movie

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Stephen Chidwick
Stephen Chidwick

Staring at the clock at a poker tournament is like watching the denouement of an action movie. But even though the bubble burst today with red, blinking figures reading 00:01, we never reached armageddon. The PokerStars blog explains how Stephen Chidwick defused the bomb and saved the world (at the cost of his tournament life).

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