2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

€8,500 Cannes Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$1,426,645
Event Info
Buy-in
$12,300
Entries
480
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
15,000

Seat Assignments

The following is a breakdown of the remaining 20 players' seat assignments:

Table 1:

Seat 1: [Removed:133]
Seat 2: Willy Korchia
Seat 3: Raul Paez
Seat 4: Claudio Renaldi
Seat 5: Alain Roy
Seat 6: Philippe Narboni

Table 2:

Seat 1: Fabrice Gouget
Seat 2: Thierry Crenn
Seat 3: Guillaume Darcourt
Seat 4: Bruno Mignini
Seat 5: Jean Philippe Rohr
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi
Seat 7: Michael Abecassis

Feature:

Seat 1: Stephane Bazin
Seat 2: Pierre Yves Ayme
Seat 3: Gus Hansen
Seat 4: Robert Mizrachi
Seat 5: Antonin Tesseire
Seat 6: Rachid 'Ralou' Ben Rezkallah
Seat 7: Denis Patout

A Brief Delay

The players have returned to their seats, but there is a slight delay while both the T100 green and the T500 black chips are being raced off and colored up. We should be underway in just a minute or two.

20 Players Remaining

With five minutes left to play in level 20, just 20 players remain. We've already lost more than half the field and need to lose 12 more before the day's end.

Currently, the average chip stack is 480,000.

Feature Table Eliminations

Fabrice Nkoa
Fabrice Nkoa
While our reporters roam the floor near the outer tables, players seem to be busting left and right up on the feature table stage.

While we are unable to provide the details of each hand, you can catch all of the action in T-minus 20-minutes on the PPT Live broadcast page by clicking here.

Here are the last three players eliminated from the tournament; each of them will receive $22,113 in prize money:

21: Fabrice Nkoa
22: Bruno Balvai
23: Frederic Marcoux

Tags: Fabrice Nkoa

Hansen Put To a Decision

Prior to the flop, Gus Hansen kicks things off with a raise to 28,000. Action passes to Philippe Narboni, who makes the call, and the two men go heads up to the flop.

It rolls out {10-Spades} {7-Spades} {8-Spades}. Gus studies for several minutes before continuing out with 42,200 chips. Narboni also considers things for a little bit before moving all in for an additional 202,600. Gus appears frustrated, letting out a, "Jesus Christ... what did I do?" as he ponders the situation. He shoots a quick glance over at his opponent, then spends several minutes just staring down at his chips shaking his head. Finally, he knocks the table and lets it go, sending more than 70,000 of his chips to the other side of the felt. After the hand, he is still right around the 1,000,000 mark, while Narboni has climbed up to 300,000 himself.

Tough Luck

Two of the tournament's largest stacks belonging to Robert Mizrachi and Gus Hansen, are currently positioned right next to each other on one of the outer tables.

Gus has approximately 1.3 million in chips while Robert sits with about 890,000.

The Return of Fabrice Nkoa

Fabrice Nkoa
Fabrice Nkoa
Fabrice Nkoa has just about had as rocky a day as you can have in a poker tournament, having fallen to 40,000 in chips from 660,000 and then climbing back up to 360,000 as recently as our last count. Fabrice loves to play pots, so expect this trend to continue as long as he's got chips in front of him.

Tags: Fabrice Nkoa

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000