Welcome to Day 1b of the €5,300 EPT Paris Main Event
Welcome to Day 1b of the €5,300 Main Event at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Paris. Cards go in the air at 12 p.m. local time for the second and final flight in the flagship event of the event.
Omar Gonzalez leads a returning field of 221 players from a total of 661 entries in the opening flight. Day 1a generated a prize pool of €3,172,800, and with 581 players registered for Day 2 so far the total now sits at €5,971,200. Gerard Carbo and Patrik Jaros rounded out the top three, while Adrian Mateos also found his way into the top ten.
2023 EPT Paris Main Event Top 10 Day 1a Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Day 2 Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Omar Gonzalez | Spain | 317,000 | 211 |
| 2 | Gerard Carbo | Spain | 302,000 | 201 |
| 3 | Patrik Jaros | Czech Republic | 260,000 | 173 |
| 4 | Martin Merz | Germany | 255,000 | 170 |
| 5 | Gorki Oliveira | Brazil | 251,000 | 167 |
| 6 | Silius Moll | Norway | 245,000 | 163 |
| 7 | Timo Kamphues | Germany | 227,000 | 151 |
| 8 | Majid Ejlal Noubarian | Iran | 225,500 | 150 |
| 9 | Sacha Zaffran | France | 225,500 | 150 |
| 10 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 222,000 | 148 |
Players will start with 30,000 chips in the opening level with blinds at 100/100 with a 100 ante. The play for Day 1b is to play ten 60-minute levels with 20-minute breaks every two. There is a scheduled dinner break after Level 6 and it will be 75 minutes. The surviving players will bag up their chips at the end of the night and return on Wednesday for Day 2.
Schedule for Day 1b
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 min | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | 60 min | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 20 min break | ||||
| 3 | 60 min | 100 | 300 | 300 |
| 4 | 60 min | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 20 min break | ||||
| 5 | 60 min | 200 | 500 | 500 |
| 6 | 60 min | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 75 min dinner break | ||||
| 7 | 60 min | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 8 | 60 min | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 20 min break | ||||
| 9 | 60 min | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 10 | 60 min | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team for live updates from the floor of the €5,300 EPT Paris Main Event at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile.
on the board when Walter Treccarichi check-called a bet of 900 from Fahredin Mustafov. The turn was 
. Both players checked the turn and the 
river before Treccarichi turned over 
to take the pot with queens and threes. Mustafov tossed the losing hand in the muck. 
and Pinto turned queens full of eights to send Davo to the rail in the opening minutes of Day 1b.
flop, Lyudmil Ivanov made it 2,000 to go and was called by Luc Bindel. The 
followed on the turn on which Ivanov bet 4,500 and Bindel called once more.
for bottom full house, which Bindel had beat holding the 
for queens over tens.
appeared on the river and Hen checked to Mendoza, who pushed all-in for 18,600.
and then called a bet worth 4,000 by Dimitri Joubert. Both players opted to check the 
on the river and Vrakas turned over 
and Vrakas banged the table briefly as he was rather upset, bemoaning to have missed the flush draw.
river, Ramon Colillas in the big blind bet 3,500 for the size of the pot. He was up against Carlos Chang who called after a couple of seconds. Colillas tabled the 
flop when the 
river improved Salazar Sanchez to the nut flush.
