Tureniec Busted
Michael Tureniec has either suffered some sort of metamorphosis over the last fifteen minutes, or he's been eliminated as there's someone else sitting in his seat over on table 17.
Michael Tureniec has either suffered some sort of metamorphosis over the last fifteen minutes, or he's been eliminated as there's someone else sitting in his seat over on table 17.
Jan Boubli just got his final couple of thousand across the line on a flop of - two of those undisclosed suits were, however, hearts. That was good enough for his , and his chips were in the middle vs. Fabian Quoss, who tossed in the call with his top two - . The draw came in on the turn and gave him some room to maneouvre - even if it's just three-point hallway turns.
On a table tucked away behind the cash game area, a fairly decent pot was being played out by Roberto Romanello and Tristan Clemencon.
Clemencon had check-called a bet of 3,850 on the board leading to a river. The French youngster checked again and Romanello bet a huge 16,175 which vexed Clemencon for several minutes, eventually though the latter folded and the Welshman took down the pot.
Here's the seating plan for this Day 1A:
Table 2
Nicolo Calia
Hugo Lemaire
Remy Biechel
Maxim Semisoshenko
Sami Saad Zakhary
Tristan Clemencon
Jakob Karlsson
Igor Kurganov
Table 3
Jean Montury
Valentin Messina
Matthew Marafioti
Roberto Romanello
Erik Wigg
Praz Bansi
Philippe Ktorza
Lars Steffensen
Table 5
Bruno Benveniste
Nicolas Levi
Michel Abecassis
Richard Ekert
Kyle Johnson
Guillaume de la Gorce
Almira Scripcenco
Shane Schleger
Jerome Zerbib
Table 6
Johan Guilbert
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Nouredine Aittaleb
Eric Haik
Antoine Saout
Jean Noel Thorel
Cyril Andre
Romain Carrere
Table 7
Alban Messe
Arnaud Esquevin
Ludovic Lacay
Antony Lellouche
Eetu Halonen
James Collopy
Guylbert Drolet
Elliot Smith
Bingjian Ren
Table 8
Armand El Fassy
Gianni Giaroni
Antoine Junillon
Jonathan Tavernier
Willy Korchia
Marc Le Campion
Julien Di Pace
JL Cap
Sergii Baranov
Table 9
Thorsten Schaefer
David Colin
Niko Mykkanen
Maurice Hol
Ilya Bulychev
Kristoffer Thorsson
Fabian Quoss
Arnaud Mattern
Jan Boubli
Table 10
Antonio Buonanno
Tapio Vihakas
Samlane Phimveha
Stephane Albertini
Ilan Boubli
Mikhail Smirnov
Cristiano Blanco
Joona Linna
Javed Abrahams
Table 11
Dhorasoo Vikash
Costa Bataille
Nicolas Babel
Cao Rui
Leonard Truche
Jeremy Nock
Thomas Laumer
Sorel Mizzi
Alain Daien
Table 12
Regis Burlot
Vivian Anseline
Aurelien Guiglini
Allan Baekke
Fabrice Tuil
Reynald Zrnjevic
Jerome Antona
Barbara Martinez
Olivier Busquet
Table 17
Manuel Bevand
Nichlas Mattsson
Nicolas Dervaux
Lars Bonding
Bryan Piccioli
David Sutcliffe
Marc Inizan
John Kabbaj
Table 18
Roland Israelashvili
Gregory Cain
Guillaume Darcourt
Per Linde
Michael Tureniec
Jimmy Ostensson
Martins Adeniya
Joseph Crawley
The board was reading and Shane Schleger had put out a bet of 6,000 on the river. Jerome Zerbib then raised all-in for an additional 12,875 leaving the American sighing as though he'd just locked his keys in the car.
"How much more is it?" he asked with a slight air of resignation. "12,875" said the dealer (but in French, obviously).
Schleger slid over the extra chips and Zerbib flipped over for a rivered full house. Schleger pushed his hand slowly towards the muck, "I had a full house as well...Nice hand sir, bet the turn, lets get it all-in then."
A very empty chair now remains where Martins Adetokunbo Adeniya once sat, and a quite huge stack graces the player we have listed as Guillaume Bayt Dit Darcourt - over 90,000 and most likely the level 3 (so far) chip leader. He's also in the unusual position of holding almost the entire table's supply of low denomination chips - towers of green and black decorate his chip palace, while there are about ten of each between the remaining seven players! I wasn't there long enough to find out if this is a deliberate no-change policy or the result of general pot-hoovering though.
On a complete side note, the WPT Grand Prix de Paris must be congratulated for its choice of chip coloration. Too often we hear "The 500s look just like the 25s," or "The 5,000s are the same colour as the 1,000s except with little black stripes," and they've really sorted this out here. If interested, see below for chip colors:
25 - green
100 - black
500 - orange
1000 - yellow
5000 - electric pink
That's enough time to discuss bad bets, lets get back there.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Players are now on a 15 minute break.
Regis Burlot has been eliminated by [Removed:13], the former was short-stacked and put his chips in on a flop with . Guiglini was holding though and no Queen came on the turn or river.
Time to enjoy the wonderfulness of Paris...