Main event Day 2 | 2010 WPT Paris

05-11-2010 00:15 UTC

OFFICIAL END OF DAY CHIP COUNTS (full)

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Amourette	489,400 432,300	432,300
Iulian Iacob	474,700 293,800	293,800
Jimmy Ostensson	396,100 309,225	309,225
Andrew Teng	393,500 287,275	287,275
Arnaud Mattern	360,100 244,625	244,625
Fabrice Touil	280,800 76,200	76,200
Theo Jorgensen	274,700 130,875	130,875

Per Linde	252,400 215,025	215,025
Nourredine Aïtaleb	232,400 67,325	67,325
Gabriel Nassif	229,200 168,125	168,125
Ilan Boujenah	192,300 57,175	57,175
Steven van Zadelhoff	188,500 188,500	188,500
Michel Bouskila	181,300 55,550	55,550
Michael Kwiek	178,700 74,700	74,700
Tyron Krost	174,700 124,925	124,925
Arnaud Esquevin	170,900 79,575	79,575
Eric Sadoun	163,700 64,750	64,750
Christophe Benzimra	161,500 94,150	94,150
Eric Haik	159,300 37,050	37,050
Alexander Kravchenko	154,400 87,800	87,800
Mickael Guenni	153,200 61,600	61,600
Guillaume de la Gorce	145,700 56,450	56,450
Paul Bennazar	139,500 65,200	65,200
Mikhail Smirnov	132,200 2,025	2,025
Patrick Bruel	132,200 98,050	98,050

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Main event

Day 2 Completed

05-10-2010 22:48 UTC

Chip Leaders

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We think these are the top five stacks at the end of day 2 with Antoine Amourette just pipping Iulian Iacob at the very top of the pile. A full count will be coming later from the lovely people at the Aviation Club de France, and will be available under the Chip Counts tab.

127 players (re)took to the felt today and just 48 will make it into a third day's play, and sneak closer to the point where actual money gets paid when they bust... 27 players will cash tomorrow, the minimum payout being €11,740 and the top prize a massive €633,902! A true slow-structured test of endurance and skill, the WPT Grand Prix de Paris has seen some of Europe's top players battle to grow their stacks, but anyone still sitting with chips in front of them has a shot when the cards are shuffled up and dealt again tomorrow.

We will be restarting at 3pm tomorrow, so we'll see you then as this exciting tournament continues!

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Amourette	489,400 432,300	432,300
Iulian Iacob	474,700 293,800	293,800
Jimmy Ostensson	396,100 309,225	309,225
Andrew Teng	393,500 287,275	287,275
Arnaud Mattern	360,100 244,625	244,625

05-10-2010 22:34 UTC

Final Bust Out Brings Day Two to a Close

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It looks like the clock has been stopped with 19 minutes and 45 seconds remaining on it and players are quickly starting to trickle out. The requisite number of players must have been reached today and it just remains to see who's come out on top at the final whistle...

05-10-2010 22:21 UTC

Is it Zarbo-ver After Teng Suckout?

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A very large pot just bumped Andrew Teng's stack even higher - over the 300k mark and in real contention for a very deep run in this WPT event - an accurate count not ready yet as he was still stacking the remains of Guiseppe Zarbo's tournament life a moment ago.

A couple of players were getting out of their seats and darting little peeks at the pot which on the {J-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} flop had started with a 15k bet out by Zarbo, raised by Teng to 33k. Back to Zarbo, who laid out pretty much his whole pink 5k reserves - 80k in total in just a matter of seconds.

Teng ascertained that Zarbo had 40k behind, then slowly brought forward stacks of 20k with some pinks on top, then took off the pink ones, then put them back on with a garnish of some 500s. He apologised for taking time and people were more or less content to wait it out. Once the pyramid shaped chip hill headed as far as just in front of the line, Teng's eyes lifted heavenwards, but they stopped there. Time was called, and half a minute counted down.

He did announce all-in eventually, called immediately by Zarbo (who just took a moment to put on his flashing-rimmed glasses) who flipped {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} . Teng held {J-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} which was looking grim as the turn bricked but the river was the {Q-Spades} ! Ship the quarter million pot to Teng, while Zarbo looked like he'd swallowed a wasp and said something punchy-sounding in Italian.

Tags: Andrew Teng Guiseppe Zarbo

05-10-2010 22:17 UTC

Man Not Well

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Manuel Bevand has just been eliminated, he was all-in with {Q-} {Q-} after a {9-} {6-} {5-} flop, but the board had connected rather better with Ilan Boujenah's {8-} {7-} .

There are 50 players left, just two more to go and the tournament will stop for the night.

Tags: Ilan Boujenah Manuel Bevand

05-10-2010 22:11 UTC

The Mattern-er Prize

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Mikhail Smirnov raised preflop to 4,500 with Nicolas Dervaux and Arnaud Mattern making the call in middle position and on the button respectively.

The flop came {9-Spades} {4-Spades} {8-Diamonds} and Smirnov bet out 15,000, Dervaux moved all-in for 24,600 and then Mattern reshoved for 143,000. Smirnov tanked for a good five minutes, getting the clock called on him, finally he made the call to mean the pot was over 300,000 in size.

Dervaux: {J-Spades} {J-Clubs}
Smirnov: {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts}
Mattern: {10-Spades} {8-Spades}

THe turn was the {8-Hearts} and the river the {2-Diamonds} , the usually stoic and unresponsive Mattern allowed himself a fist pump for once as he raked what is probably the biggest pot in the tournament so far. Mattern up to about 360,000 as a result but Smirnov drops to about 140,000

Tags: Arnaud Mattern Mikhail Smirnov Nicolas Dervaux

05-10-2010 21:51 UTC

Chips from the Break and Just Beyond

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Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Amourette	373,800 316,700	316,700
Mikhail Smirnov	308,800 174,575	174,575
Steven Zadelhoff	193,500 136,800	136,800
Fabrice Touil	186,200 18,400	18,400
Patrick Bruel	162,000 127,850	127,850

Arnaud Mattern	151,300 35,825	35,825
Miguel Use	113,900 61,000	61,000
Sebastien Orsini	112,200 50,600	50,600
Stephane Albertini	105,300 16,650	16,650
David Lascar	96,600 29,300	29,300
Matthew Hopkins	92,300 4,375	4,375
Bruno Lopes	91,400 31,300	31,300

Bruno Benveniste	85,600 58,800	58,800
	75,000 75,000	75,000
Tyron Krost	73,100 23,325	23,325
Almira Skripchenko	70,000 30,600	30,600
Lasse Vbostad	60,900 12,875	12,875
Kristoffer Thorsson	59,800 43,800	43,800
Laurent Polito	53,700 4,750	4,750
Paul Bennazar	51,000 23,300	23,300
Quinn Sivace	44,500 19,275	19,275
Stuart Rutter	41,600 41,600	41,600
Mathieu Bernard	22,000 8,925	8,925
Paul Testud	20,800 17,450	17,450
Andrew Feldman	Busted

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05-10-2010 21:41 UTC

Felled Man

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Antony Lellouche opened to 3,400 from the button and Andrew Feldman moved all-in from the big blind. In what can only be described as a "fist-pump-chip-slam" Lellouche made the call, turning over {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} to Feldman's {10-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} .

As the board came down {J-Spades} {6-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {A-Spades} {2-Hearts} Feldman moved over to shake Lellouche's hand and headed over to the rail.

Tags: Antony Lellouche Andrew Feldman

05-10-2010 21:37 UTC

Scalpula

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Francois-Charles Scapula is the latest exit from the tournament after a bit of a chilly spot as his {8-Spades} {10-Spades} prompted his whole stack over the line on a {8-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {A-Clubs} board. Unfortunately for him he was up against {Q-Clubs} {8-Clubs} and with no saving river he congratulated his table, shook their hands and made a dignified exit.

Tags: Francois-Charles Scapula