Stefan Schillhabel opened from late position for 3,800 and Tobias Peters sat to his direct left three-bet to 9,700. The blinds mucked and it was back to Schillhabel. The German reached for more chips and four-bet to 23,300.
Peters, from the Netherlands, clarified the amount and cut out a five-bet to 45,700. No posturing from Schillhabel who quickly let it go. Peters laughed saying he had the better hand but Schillhabel didn’t look in the mood to join in the chat as the pot slid over to his neighbour.
Nathan Gozlan and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier saw a flop of . Gozlan checked the flop and Grospellier fired out a bet of 4,000. Gozlan called to see a turn.
The dealer produced the on fourth street and action checked to Grospellier for a second time. He continued his aggression with 8,700 and once again found a call. The completed the board and Gozlan checked one final time. Grospellier bet 17,700, Gozlan called, and Grospellier rolled over . Gozlan mucked and Grospellier dragged in a sizable pot. The Team PokerStars Pro is now sitting on about 170,000 in chips.
While Christopher Frank busted on the feature table not long ago, two EPT champions have also been added to the bustout list for Day 2. Anton Wigg and Frederik Jensen were those casualties. While the circumstances of the Wigg bust are unknown, a short-stacked Jensen got it in with versus and failed to improve.
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More than 41% of the 592-strong field in the EPT Deauville Main Event come from France. There were 242 French players, way ahead of any other country. Italy is number 2 here in Deauville with 34 players. There are 32 Russians, 31 Brits, 30 Germans and 21 Dutch.
The following countries have only one representative so we hope people are being friendly to them: Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Chile, Egypt, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Mexico, Monaco and Tunisia. Others with 2+ players are: Israel, Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Canada, China, Ireland, Norway, Luxembourg, Serbia and Switzerland.
Russia is the third strongest country in terms of participation here at the EPT 11 Deauville Main Event with 32 participants, however two of them just ran out of chips. Ivan Soshnikov had suffered a beat to his stack not long ago whereas Pavel Gonchakov was one of the bigger stacks after Day 1b.
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There had been an open and a call before Gabriel Nassif also put in the calling chips. Anton Astapau in the small blind then three-bet to 14,600 and big blind Vadim Shlez decided to smooth call. The other players folded but Nasif hung on to his cards while he decided what to do.
The thing was, Astapau had bet 14,600 and had left 5,200 behind. Shlez had a big enough stack to call pretty wide but he had Nassif covered and Nassif’s stack didn’t give him much fold equity if he wanted to shove. Calling didn’t look that great an option either. Nassif looked genuinely torn.
As Nassif was thinking, Astapau started talking to him wondering if he was really contemplating getting involved before the dealer warned him to keep quiet as there were three people in the hand. “I didn’t know that.” Astapau responded but kept schtum.
Nasif made the fold and the dealer put out a flop of . Astapau duly put the remainder of his chips in and Shlez called.
Astapau had and Shlez . The turn was the and with the river pairing the board Shlez’s pair was counterfeited to give Astapau a double up.
Despite the enquiries that followed, and numerous guesses, Nassif wouldn’t say what he folded.
Petr Jelinek moved all in for 10,500 and Rhys Jones flat-called from one seat over before Jerome Zerbib moved all in to isolate successfully. The board was already rushed away, but the pocket tens of the Czech online grinder were no good against the of Zerbib.
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. Gozlan checked the flop and Grospellier fired out a bet of 4,000. Gozlan called to see a turn.
on fourth street and action checked to Grospellier for a second time. He continued his aggression with 8,700 and once again found a call. The 
completed the board and Gozlan checked one final time. Grospellier bet 17,700, Gozlan called, and Grospellier rolled over 
. Gozlan mucked and Grospellier dragged in a sizable pot. The Team PokerStars Pro is now sitting on about 170,000 in chips.
versus 
and failed to improve.
and Shlez 
and with the river 
pairing the board Shlez’s pair was counterfeited to give Astapau a double up.
of Zerbib.
