The official numbers are in, and with 247 total runners our prizepool here at the 2010 WPT Paris is whopping €2,347,797.
Twenty-seven players will score a payday here at the Aviation Club de France with the smallest pay-out being €11,740. A final nine finish earns players at least €58,695, and the winner will walk away with a healthy €633,902 score.
Elie Marciano has been well and truly knocked out of this tournament. The river of a 
board was checked down with a substantial pot already having been built by Marciano and Osama Chaar.
Chaar turned over 
and Marciano looked completely shell-shocked and stood up refusing to turn over or muck his cards.
Finally after about a minute, Stuart Rutter said, "Come on, muck your hand..."
Marciano complained saying he needed to check his cards, which he then did not do. Finally he folded, leaving himself super-short.
Marciano's remaining chips went in with 
against Paul Testud's 
and Casey Kastle's 
but a 
meant the two Big Slicks' would chop the pot up and Maricano's adventure was over.
After taking that knock earlier with the straight vs. flush hand, Gilbert Diaz has been pushing to double up this level. He's had his stack in twice in the last orbit alone - once pushing in on the river of a 
board vs. Eric Sadoun (no call) and then tangling with Tyron Krost like so:
Davidi Kitai raised to 750 preflop and picked up Krost on the button and big blind Diaz. On the 
flop it was checked to Krost who bet 1,500, called by Diaz alone. The 
popped up on the turn, prompting another check to Krost, a bet of 3,300 and then a swift move-in from Diaz. Krost went into that face-covering praying position often taken up by poker players faced with tough decisions and paused, but eventually decided the 6,750 more was too much. Another pot for Diaz.
Thomas Nielsen raised to 1,000 preflop, Antoine Rahal reraised to 4,000 from late position and Lasse Ubostad flat-called from the blinds. Nielsen came along for the ride and the three saw a 
flop.
Ubostad led out for 6,000 and Nielsen quickly folded. Rahal then raised to 17,000 quickly and Ubostad tanked for several minutes before reraising all-in, it was only another 17,000 more for Rahal but he folded fairly quickly.
Climbing the ladder and emerging with a stack hitherto unnoticed is Gabriel Nassif, who's on over 65,000. Could have something to do with his post-it note visible behind his chips with instructions. It's big, green, and says simply, "PLAY GOOD."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000 | |
|
115,000 | |
|
80,000 | |
|
||
|
58,000 | |
|
56,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
52,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
37,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
34,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
|
30,000
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
29,300
2,200
|
2,200 |
|
28,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
||
|
20,500
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
|
||
|
20,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
18,000 | |
|
18,000 | |
|
16,500
500
|
500 |
|
||
|
14,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
11,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
3,750
25,250
|
25,250 |
After struggling with a small stack for the past level or so, we just saw Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier from the 2010 WPT Paris. We'll look to get the details.
Denis Bahonjic opened to 1,025 and Simon Ravnsbaek flat-called behind him, Alex Kravchenko also called from the small blind before David Tavernier reraised to 6,300 from the big blind.
Here is where things got interesting, Bahonjic flat-called the reraise before Ravnsbaek then decided to push all-in for 31,850 more. Kravchenko folded digustedly, while Tavernier gave Ravnsbaek the big stare down before folding. Bahonjic was much more obstinate though and eventually made the call.
Bahonjic: 
Ravnsbaek: 
The door card was the and Ravnsbaek could only say "Wow" as the rest of the board came 
. Bahonjic added an extra 40,000 to his stack and has about 85,000 now.
One player has a stack dwarfing his tablemates' - on our list as being the owner of the Seat 1 Table 9 stack is Romanian player Iulian Iacob, with 117,000. He was responsible for most of the carnage in level three (two players had to be moved to fill empty seats on the Table of Doom) and is continuing to grow his stack. Most recently he took most of Casey Kastle's chips (representing just a decoration on a turret on one of his stacks though):
Already somewhat short stacked, Kastle got to the turn vs. Iacob with the board standing 
. At this point the pot was over 6k, Kastle had checked and Iacob had bet 5,000, leaving Kastle a decision for his 10k stack - or not. Kastle called and the river fell . Now with just one pink chip left he checked again, Iacob put in the 5k to cover him, and he declined to call. Bowl of rice for Kastle, but as ElkY proved, short is not out.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
Double bust-aments with Jean Rigal the very happy man in the middle. The board was reading 
and Curt Kohlberg had moved all-in, Josh Field then moved all-in behind him and Rigal made the call.
Kohlberg: 
Field:
Rigal: 
Field was already drawing dead and but Kohlberg could catch a nine to treble but failed when the river was the 
. It all went the way of Rigal as he eliminated the other two to win a fairly substantial pot.
