€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2015 PokerStars.fr EPT Season 11 Deauville

€5,300 Main Event

Day 3 Started

02-04-2015 02:17 UTC+2

Day 3 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

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

02-04-2015 11:06 UTC+2

The Race to the Money on Day 3 of the EPT 11 Deauville Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Kevin MacPhee is second heading into Day 3 in Deauville

Two starting days and yesterday's Day 2 have reduced the field of 592 entrants of the €5,300 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville Main Event to 138 hopefuls and 87 of them will be at least €8,810 richer. That's only a temporary goal though as everybody's eyes are set on the €543,700 first-place payout and opportunity to engrave the own name into the history books of the European Poker Tour.

In about two hours from now on at 12 p.m. local time, the action will resume in level 15 with blinds at 1,500 - 3,000 and a running ante of 400. As of today and until the winner gets crowned on Saturday February 7th, the level duration increases to 90 minutes each. Day 3 is foreseen to play a total of five levels with a 20 minute break after each level and the money will be reached during that time. Bagging and tagging should occur around 20:45 local time (CET), as there is no dinner break.

Leading the field is Ireland's Alex Tikhoniouk 312,600 chips in his maiden participation of an EPT Main Event. Not far behind is a much bigger name of the international poker circuit in former EPT champion and EPT 11 London runner-up Kevin MacPhee (308,300) whereas Robert Schulz completes the podium with 296,900 in chips. It wouldn't be a surprise to see yet another deep run of a German as the first two titles in Season 11 went to the host country of the upcoming World Series of Poker Europe later this year.

Big stacks include such stellar names as PokerStars Team Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (281,500), Benjamin Pollak (275,000), Nicolau Villa-Lobos (230,600), Simon Ravnsbaek (197,600), PokerStars Team Pro Jan Heitmann (199,000) and Day 2 chip leader Guillaume Darcourt (172,600). Remi Castaignon won this very event in 2013 and is still in with 175,600 chips, EPT London champion Ruben Visser (158,200), Sergio Aido (146,000) and Eugene Katchalov (137,000) will all return with above-average stacks as well.

Day 3 blind levels:

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
15	1,500	3,000	400
	break
16	2,000	4,000	500
	break
17	2,500	5,000	500
	break
18	3,000	6,000	1,000
	break
19	4,000	8,000	1,000

PokerNews will bring you all the key hands on the way to crown yet another EPT champion, so check back regularly!

Tags: Alex Tikhoniouk Benjamin Pollak Bertrand Grospellier Eugene Katchalov Guillaume Darcourt Jan Heitmann Kevin MacPhee Remi Castaignon Robert Schulz Ruben Visser Sergio Aido Simon Ravnsbaek

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

02-04-2015 13:08 UTC+2

Cimbolas Doubles With Queens

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

"Yessss. Write down all my emotions," Matas Cimbolas said after he three-bet shoved with and was called by initial raiser Omar Dahmani with . "That's a good flop for me," Cimbolas said and was pretty pleased when seeing as first three community cards. The on the turn triggered an "oh wow" from the Lithuanian before he had reason again to cheer with the river, giving him a flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Omar Dahmani	230,000	-59,700
Matas Cimbolas	110,000	57,000

Tags: Matas Cimbolas Omar Dahmani

02-04-2015 13:15 UTC+2

Peters Folds Winning Hand

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Tobias Peters min-raised to 6,000 from the cutoff and Sören Ingwart Vöhrs moved all in from one seat over. Marina Razuvaeva also moved all in out of the small blind and the Dutchman mucked his for everybody to see. Vöhrs was dominated with but got there against Razuaeva's on a board of board.

Peters would have won the pot and Razuaeva had exactly one ante left, already left the table though and thus her next hand was dead, officially eliminating the Russian.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tobias Peters	214,000	-6,800
Sören Ingwart Vöhrs	135,000	72,300
Marina Razuvaeva	Busted

Tags: Tobias Peters Sören Ingwart Vöhrs Marina Razuvaeva

02-04-2015 13:17 UTC+2

Pollak Claims Chip Discrepancy

[user252447]

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Benjamin Pollak arrived at the table to find his bag of chips had been wrapped in another bag and when he opened them discovered that he didn’t have as much as he had written on the bag the night before. He thought he had 275,400 but this morning counted 267,000 which represented a shortfall of 8,400 or just under three big blinds.

The floor was called and it was explained that an extra bag is sometimes used if it was felt the first one was not secure enough for some reason. The floor went off to investigate and came back shortly after to say there were no unaccounted for chips and therefore nothing could be done. Without apportioning blame it was suggested that he may have miscounted. This is a rare but not unique occurrence.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benjamin Pollak	267,000	-8,000

Tags: Benjamin Pollak

02-04-2015 13:18 UTC+2

MacPhee Thriving Early

Josh_Cahlik

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Action folded around to Sweden's Alexander Ivarsson on the button and he put out a raise to 6,000. Kevin MacPhee was in the big blind and he called to see a flop.

The dealer produced a flop of and MacPhee tapped the table. Ivarsson made a continuation bet of 6,000 and MacPhee stuck around. Both players checked after the board paired on the turn with the and the finished the board. MacPhee took this opportunity to drop 11,800 into the middle. Ivarsson let it go and MacPhee dragged in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin MacPhee	330,000	21,700
Alexander Ivarsson	37,000	-24,500

Tags: Alexander Ivarsson Kevin MacPhee

02-04-2015 13:23 UTC+2

Dominik Panka Eliminated

Webjoker

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Dominik Panka started out short today, and got busy soon enough. He had already shoved twice, but received no calls those times. The third time wasn't going to be the charm, it would spell doom for him.

Panka shoved under the gun. Nobody asked for a count but it looked like about 40,000. Action folded to Pierre Peretti in the cutoff and the Frenchman called without inquiring about the size of the all in. The button and both blinds folded and they put their cards on their backs.

Pierre Peretti:
Dominik Panka:

The coin flip wouldn't end well for Panka: . Tomorrow the €10,000 High Roller starts, maybe Panka will try his luck in that tournament. Panka won that event last year, let's see if he can go back to back.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pierre Peretti	150,000	44,300
Dominik Panka	Busted

Tags: Dominik Panka Pierre Peretti

02-04-2015 13:24 UTC+2

Alilovic Takes It On the River

[user252447]

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Marcin Wydrowski opened the action for 6,500 and Martins Adeniya in the big blind asked for a count before he put out the calling chips. Miroslav Alilovic in the big blind came along too.

It was three-ways to a flop of which was checked around. The on the turn saw Wydrowski fire out 7,900 but that didn’t shake off either player and they saw the river card come the . Alilovic now led out for 18,000 and that took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Miroslav Alilovic	190,000	17,000
Martins Adeniya	48,000	-14,200
Marcin Wydrowski	42,000	-14,200

Tags: Marcin Wydrowski Martins Adeniya Miroslav Alilovic