Alex Tikhoniouk Leads After Day 2 of the PokerStars.fr EPT 11 Deauville Main Event
Day 2 of the PokerStars.fr EPT 11 Deauville Main Event started with 335 players remaining and Frenchman Guillaume Darcourt leading the way. With the late registration still open until the action restarted at noon, another three players exchanged €5,300 for 30,000 chips to boost the overall attendance to 592 entries in total and 338 remaining. Tournament staff announced that the top 87 spots will get paid with the eventual winner receiving €543,700 as well as the EPT trophy and Slyde watch on Feb. 7.
The action kicked off with a bang Tuesday as Michal Mrakes lost his top 10 stack to Andrius Bielskis within the first half an hour of play. Mrakes and 64 others were eliminated in the first two levels, including Gaelle Baumann, Vojtech Ruzicka, former EPT champion David Vamplew, Christophe Benzimra, Ihar Soika and Philippe Ktorza.
Vicky Coren-Mitchell, the first and only two-time EPT champion, will have to wait for another chance to win her third. She failed to improve with 
against the 
of 2013 PCA champion Dimitar Danchev. Michael Tureniec busted to Rube Visser in a battle of former EPT winners when the Dutchman improved with 
to better the Swede's 
. PokerStars Team Online Pros Vicente Delgado and Gabriel Nassif were equally unfortunate, as was PokerStars Team Pro Julien Brecard.
Three former EPT Deauville Main Event winners returned to the tables but only one would make it through. Both Lucien Cohen and Jake Cody were eliminated on the feature table: Cody was trying to bluff Clement Genon-Catalot on a board of 
but the Frenchman called his river shove with 
and the Brit's 
was no good. Cohen then lost with pocket sixes against pocket jacks to only leave Remi Castaignon behind. The Frenchman turned a full house early on with 
and Damien Lhommeau got his stack in drawing dead with for a gutshot and flush draw. Castaignon would end the day with 175,600 chips.
In the very last hand of the day Fabrice Soulier lost a coin flip with against the 
of Simon Ravnsbaek, who had bought in just before Day 2 kicked off and ran up the stack to 197,600. Once everyone bagged and tagged their chips, only 138 players remained and Alex Tikhoniouk claimed the lead with 312,600 chips. The Irishman is playing his first ever EPT event and was even down to only four big blinds early today before spinning it up.
Tikhoniuk is closely followed by former EPT champion and EPT 11 London runner-up Kevin MacPhee (308,300) and Robert Schulz with 296,900. Other big stacks include PokerStars Team Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (281,500), Carlo Savinelli (275,400), Benjamin Pollak (275,000), Nicolau Villa-Lobos (230,600), PokerStars Team Pro Jan Heitmann (199,000) and start-of-the-day chip leader Guillaume Darcourt (172,600). Eugene Katchalov started as one of the shortest stacks and doubled up several times to claim 137,000 whereas fellow Team Pro Marcin Horecki (112,000), PokerStars sponsored player Dominik Panka (45,800) and Team PokerStars Pro Online (37,500) also advanced.
The action will resume at 12 p.m. local time with blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a running ante of 400. The level duration increases from 75 to 90 minutes on Day 3, and the money is expected to be reached during the five levels of play. Stay tuned to the PokerNews live coverage to see who lands on the bubble!
Day 3 Redraw:
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | Alexandre Reard | France | 85,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Martins Adeniya | UK | 62,200 |
| 8 | 4 | Tatiana Barausova | Russia | 44,500 |
| 8 | 5 | Miroslav Alilovic | France | 173,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 275,000 |
| 8 | 7 | Marcin Wydrowski | Poland | 56,200 |
| 8 | 8 | Julien Duveau | France | 233,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Jannick Wrang | Denmark | 111,500 |
| 9 | 2 | Francesco Delfoco | Italy | 150,000 |
| 9 | 3 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 281,500 |
| 9 | 4 | Joseph El Khoury | Lebanon | 87,000 |
| 9 | 5 | Yves Soussan | France | 109,400 |
| 9 | 6 | Javier Rodriguez | Spain | 90,900 |
| 9 | 7 | Massou Cohen | France | 215,900 |
| 9 | 8 | Carlo Savinelli | Italy | 275,400 |
| 10 | 1 | Daniel Carlsson | Sweden | 45,100 |
| 10 | 2 | Jan Heitmann | Germany | 199,000 |
| 10 | 3 | Patryk Slusarek | Poland | 112,200 |
| 10 | 4 | Alfie Adam | UK | 135,200 |
| 10 | 5 | Ivan Gabrieli | Italy | 147,100 |
| 10 | 6 | Nicolas Proust | France | 48,300 |
| 10 | 7 | Daniel Wilson | Ireland | 203,300 |
| 10 | 8 | Philippe Gellman | France | 12,700 |
| 11 | 1 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 83,500 |
| 11 | 2 | Simon Ravnsbaek | Denmark | 197,600 |
| 11 | 3 | Nicolau Villa-Lobos | Brazil | 230,600 |
| 11 | 4 | Dany Parlafes | Romania | 86,700 |
| 11 | 5 | Vadim Shlez | USA | 121,500 |
| 11 | 6 | David Gutfreund | USA | 97,100 |
| 11 | 7 | Rony Halimi | France | 114,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Owain Carey | UK | 165,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 45,800 |
| 12 | 2 | Stephane Gojon | France | 129,200 |
| 12 | 3 | Dimitar Danchev | Bulgaria | 44,800 |
| 12 | 4 | Andrius Bielskis | Lithuania | 261,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Pierre Peretti | France | 105,700 |
| 12 | 7 | Nikita Nikolaev | Russia | 99,500 |
| 12 | 8 | Guillaume Diaz | France | 142,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Emmanuel Nakache | France | 34,800 |
| 13 | 2 | Luciano Santos De Hollanda | Brazil | 69,200 |
| 13 | 3 | Jouny Hanna | Sweden | 290,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 146,000 |
| 13 | 5 | Eric Meissonnier | France | 96,100 |
| 13 | 6 | Nathan Gozlan | France | 179,500 |
| 13 | 7 | Olivier Piechaczyk | France | 272,600 |
| 13 | 8 | Milan Tomasz Rabsz | Poland | 123,100 |
| 14 | 1 | Berdugo Saul | France | 238,800 |
| 14 | 2 | Jan Przysucha | Poland | 48,200 |
| 14 | 3 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 91,600 |
| 14 | 4 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 137,000 |
| 14 | 5 | Matthieu Lamagnere | France | 140,200 |
| 14 | 6 | Jerome Arnould | France | 245,600 |
| 14 | 7 | Saoud Mnahi | Kuwait | 187,200 |
| 14 | 8 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 93,100 |
| 15 | 1 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 64,300 |
| 15 | 2 | Firas Nassar | Lebanon | 227,800 |
| 15 | 3 | Jean-Louis Perez | France | 35,200 |
| 15 | 4 | Yannick Chevrier | France | 129,600 |
| 15 | 5 | Walter Buss | Belgium | 192,500 |
| 15 | 6 | Gangzhou Hu | France | 234,300 |
| 15 | 7 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 149,100 |
| 15 | 8 | Jin Haijing | China | 33,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Bouali Saiah | France | 93,100 |
| 16 | 3 | Paul Bertrac | France | 172,700 |
| 16 | 4 | Luca Giovannone | Italy | 92,500 |
| 16 | 5 | Guillaume Darcourt | France | 172,600 |
| 16 | 6 | Bernd Vogelhuber | Germany | 91,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 234,400 |
| 16 | 8 | Clement Genon-Catalot | France | 236,200 |
| 17 | 1 | Stepas Tindziulis | Lithuania | 70,000 |
| 17 | 2 | Paul Berende | Netherlands | 78,600 |
| 17 | 3 | Kamel Tir | France | 132,200 |
| 17 | 4 | Stavros Kalfas | Greece | 138,200 |
| 17 | 5 | Ognjen Sekularac | Serbia | 101,700 |
| 17 | 6 | Marcin Horecki | Poland | 112,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Guy Tomaselli | France | 13,300 |
| 17 | 8 | Gregoire Boissenot | France | 53,800 |
| 18 | 1 | Jean Pierre Besancon | France | 156,300 |
| 18 | 2 | Rob Strong | Netherlands | 51,600 |
| 18 | 3 | Jerome Zerbib | France | 134,700 |
| 18 | 4 | Rasmus Vogt | Denmark | 103,100 |
| 18 | 5 | Roberto Gomez Ruiz | Spain | 60,400 |
| 18 | 6 | [Removed:4] | Germany | 40,800 |
| 18 | 7 | Lucas Monnier | France | 85,300 |
| 18 | 8 | Pierre Chevalier | France | 221,000 |
| 19 | 1 | Adrien Guyon | France | 291,100 |
| 19 | 2 | Remi Castaignon | France | 175,600 |
| 19 | 3 | Benjamin Buhr | France | 90,300 |
| 19 | 4 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 220,800 |
| 19 | 5 | Sören Ingwart Vöhrs | Germany | 62,700 |
| 19 | 7 | Marina Razuvaeva | Russia | 68,900 |
| 19 | 8 | Cyril Pusset | France | 57,900 |
| 20 | 1 | Matti Konttinen | Finland | 83,200 |
| 20 | 2 | Evangelos Tsairis | Greece | 261,700 |
| 20 | 3 | Emin Aghayev | Monaco | 119,500 |
| 20 | 4 | Rhys Jones | UK | 63,800 |
| 20 | 5 | Joseph Carlino | France | 197,800 |
| 20 | 6 | Thomas Butzhammer | Germany | 46,700 |
| 20 | 7 | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | 112,300 |
| 20 | 8 | Boutros Naim | Lebanon | 170,100 |
| 21 | 1 | Jean Wang | France | 26,700 |
| 21 | 2 | Omar Dahmani | France | 289,700 |
| 21 | 4 | Sameer Khurana | Poland | 160,800 |
| 21 | 5 | Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 53,000 |
| 21 | 6 | Bastien Panciarola | France | 49,200 |
| 21 | 7 | Filippo Lazzaretto | Italy | 135,600 |
| 21 | 8 | Manuel Andrees Sadornil | Spain | 41,100 |
| 22 | 1 | Tomasz Cybulski | Poland | 163,300 |
| 22 | 2 | Ronan Monfort | France | 37,500 |
| 22 | 3 | David Jaoui | France | 217,900 |
| 22 | 4 | Moundir Zoughari | France | 30,600 |
| 22 | 5 | Amir Mozaffarian | Germany | 35,400 |
| 22 | 6 | Ruben Visser | Netherlands | 158,200 |
| 22 | 7 | Lionel Rozenberg | France | 153,000 |
| 22 | 8 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 208,900 |
| 23 | 1 | Pierre Morin | France | 260,900 |
| 23 | 2 | Jan-Eric Schwippert | Germany | 74,700 |
| 23 | 3 | Jeremy Ciup | France | 116,300 |
| 23 | 4 | Georgios Kapalas | Greece | 204,400 |
| 23 | 5 | Patrice Biton | France | 79,400 |
| 23 | 6 | Alexander Ivarsson | Sweden | 61,500 |
| 23 | 7 | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | Greece | 83,800 |
| 23 | 8 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 308,300 |
| 24 | 1 | Gilbert Diaz | France | 155,400 |
| 24 | 2 | Jean-Philippe Rohr | France | 55,300 |
| 24 | 3 | Sebastien Lebaron | France | 78,500 |
| 24 | 4 | Micha Hoedemaker | Netherlands | 170,700 |
| 24 | 5 | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 62,300 |
| 24 | 6 | Gilles Huet | France | 26,900 |
| 24 | 8 | Eric Qu | France | 38,000 |
| 25 | 1 | Sophie Tayeb | France | 29,400 |
| 25 | 2 | Alex Tikhoniouk | Ireland | 312,600 |
| 25 | 3 | Mike Neuens | Luxembourg | 25,300 |
| 25 | 4 | Pascal Aznar | France | 171,400 |
| 25 | 5 | Robert Schulz | Germany | 296,900 |
| 25 | 6 | Jan Boubli | France | 84,300 |
| 25 | 7 | David Van Den Berg | Netherlands | 90,600 |
| 25 | 8 | Francois Evard | Switzerland | 40,700 |
and the EPT 10 Vienna High Roller champion won't be returning for Day 3 tomorrow.
and Tureniec checked to Carey who c-bet 6,000. Visser now raised to 15,900 and Carey made the call after Tureniec folded.
-turn. The 
on the river made for a board with two pair, and Carey checked again. Visser bet 35,000 and Carey folded.
flop was still good for the Swede in the battle of former EPT champions, but the 
turn saw Visser improve. Only a queen could save Tureniec, yet the 
and the Italian checked to Visser. Visser bet out 12,300 and Tato made a min raise to 24,600. Visser shoved for 51,900 and Tato made the call after some tanking.
on the turn and 
on the river were proper blanks.
on the flop made things clear.
and gave Czuczor a huge spin and great feeling to head into the break with.
