€8,500 Cannes Main Event Day 1a | 2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

09-04-2008 01:37 UTC+3

Nasty River

MarcC

I caught up with Ramzi Jelassi, who told me about his unfortunate exit. An opponent bet out for 10,000 on the turn and he moved all in for 14,000 with the board reading {Q-Hearts}

-x-

.

His opponent made the call holding {K-?}

for top pair and gutshot straight draw. Jelassi was in good shape with A- {A-Hearts}

for an over pair and redraw to a flush. Wouldn't you know it, a non-heart jack fell on the river to eliminate the eternally unlucky Swede.

Tags: Ramzi Jelassi

09-04-2008 01:59 UTC+3

Theo Jorgensen and an opponent created a large pot when all the chips went in the middle on a flop containing a king and two clubs. Both players revealed ace-king but Jorgensen wasn't best pleased to see his opponent's two cards were both clubs. The turned bricked out but the river saw a third club fall to send the pot away from the Dane.

Jorgensen very low on 10,000 right now.

Tags: Theo Jorgensen

09-04-2008 02:02 UTC+3

The Smart Rack

[user38449]

The chip racks being used by the tournament staff here at the Palm Beach Club are different than those we're used to back in the States. They are accompanied by a plastic lid that fits the rack much like the one used in the classic Parker Brothers board game, Boggle.

Pictured here, the rack was designed to aid players in carrying their chips from one table to another when their table breaks. The lid helps minimize messy spills and provides a little extra security when players are transferring their chips from one table to another.

09-04-2008 02:10 UTC+3

Juha Healthy

[user66118]

Juha Helppi has been down in the danger zone for several hours now, hovering right around the 10-big-blind mark for what has seemed like an eternity. Finally, he has managed to get a little breathing room in the last few minutes. Sitting with just less than 6,000 chips, his patience finally paid off, as he managed a long-awaited double up, giving himself twice as many chips to play with. And he's putting them to good use. Just after acquiring his new chips, Helppi came in raising under the gun, putting out a bet of 1,025. Action passed all the way around to the big blind, who matched the bet.

The flop came out {A-Spades}

. As the dealer dealt the third card, the player in the big blind simultaneously slid his cards quickly into the muck with a slight chuckle, shipping the pot over to Helppi, who also smiled as he pulled in a few more insurance chips.

After sitting very patiently for about four hours, people are now just giving Juha their chips. He sits with 14,800, and has a bit of room to play normal poker once again.

Tags: Juha Helppi

09-04-2008 02:13 UTC+3

Quads Should Just About Do It

MarcC

Jean-Pierre Petroli had been nursing a short stack for sometime before he finally found a spot to get all his chips in. He was in bad shape though as his pockets tens were dominated by an opponent's pocket queens. Not to worry though as the first two cards out happened to be the remaining two tens!

Petroli up to 20,000 now.

Tags: Jean-Pierre Petroli

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

09-04-2008 02:22 UTC+3

Moyenne de Jetons: 35,680

[user38449]

With the clock striking Level 8, we have reached our final round of play for Day 1a. We started play some 10 hours ago with 226 players, and 101 of them have fallen by the wayside so far. That leaves us with 125 players at this very moment, and we expect that number to drop close to the 100 mark by the conclusion of play.

In case you're out of practice on your French, 'Moyenne de Jetons' translates to 'average chip stack.'

09-04-2008 02:41 UTC+3

Scoreboard Update

[user38449]

Our estimated top five chip stacks look a little like this:

Mickael Cartillier - 118,000
Pierre Eugene Charil - 91,500
Gus Hansen - 81,000
Fabrice Nkoa - 71,000
Jerome Zerbib - 62,000

09-04-2008 02:43 UTC+3

Move on a Mover

MarcC

There were three limpers before Nestor Ygborn made it 2,500 to play from the button. Jacques Zaicik was one of the limpers and and after carefully watching his opponent he re-raised up to 15,000 total. Ygborn though for a while, looked at this cards but eventually folded.

Was Ygborn making a move and did Zaicik spot that? No cards were exposed so we'll never know.

Ygborn sitting on 63,000 whereas Zaicik has 48,000.

Tags: Jacques Zaicik Nestor Ygborn

09-04-2008 03:02 UTC+3

Dymling Doing DangerousThings

[user66118]

Action for this hand begins with a raise from the hijack seat, where the player seated there opens the betting to 2,000. Behind him, the player in the cutoff calls. The button and small blind fold, and the decision is on Nichlas Dymling in the big blind. He has just 5,975 chips, and he moves them all into the middle. Both of his opponents call.

The board runs out {10-Diamonds}

with the two live players check-checking the whole way. When all is said and done, Dymling turns over the {7-Clubs}

and the

one at a time. His full house is good, as the original raiser open-mucks his {A-Hearts}

. The third player in the hand does not show his cards, but it clearly can't beat a full house.

With that timely win, Nichlas Dymling triples himself up just over 18,000.

Tags: Nichlas Dymling