Main event
Day 3 Completed
2010 WPT Paris
Main event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 WPT Paris
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€2,347,797
Entries
247
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
End of Level Spells End of Day
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The original plan was to get to 24, we heard, but as level 15 drew to a close with 25 players remaining, the tournament directors called for a redraw and a color-up and a break until tomorrow.
The chip leader at the end of Day Three is Jimmy Ostensson with 719,000, and everyone who returns tomorrow is guaranteed at least €11,740 for their marathon efforts.
The wooden spoon of the bubble went to Stuart Rutter right at the end of the day, and now attention focuses on chasing those top spots (first prize of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris is a whopping €633,902).
Nipping at the leader's heels are those listed here, and full chip counts will be posted when they have been collected by the casino.
Play restarts at 3pm local time and we'll be here to bring you the continuation of the action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
719,000 | 34,000 |
|
|
570,000 | 200,000 |
|
564,500 | 114,500 |
|
555,500 | 155,500 |
|
451,500 | 66,500 |
|
450,000 | 70,000 |
|
416,000 | -12,000 |
Big Calls Reap Big Rewards
Two people going in the right way at the end of the day with big calls in the last hand.
First, Andrew Teng was staring down a 75,000 bet from Patrick Bruel on a 
board.
He took a good couple of minutes before making the call and Bruel flipped a missed 
which was no good against Teng's 
.
Meanwhile Mikael Guenni made two good calls for most of his stack against Theo Jorgensen. Guenni saw a 12,000 bet raised to 32,000 on a 
board. Guenni called and then checked the 
river.
Jorgensen now fired out 60,000 on the river and Guenni made the call for over half his remaining stack. Jorgensen mucked and Guenni showed 
for the pot.
Guillaume de la Gorce Eliminated in 26th (€11,740)
Guillaume de la Gorce moved all-in preflop for about 50,000 from the hijack but Christophe Benzimra made the call from the small blind.
De La Gorce: 
Benzimra: 
Board: 
25 left.
Olivier Chaignard Finishes in 27th Place (€11,740)
Now in the money, he found a spot to get his 50k or so in preflop with 
, given a spin by Fabrice Tuil in the blind. Tuil had 
and there was an almost admiring "Aaaah!" noise emitted by the whole table as he flopped quads, destroying any hopes for Chaignard to ladder further.
Stuart Rutter Bubble Boy
After staying in contention for the Grinder of the Day award (with Antony Lellouche and Olivier Chaignard) the 28th place finisher ended up being Stuart Rutter. It was an all in preflop situation vs. Theo Jorgensen (who'd continually been raising on Stuart's immediate right and giving him pause for preflop thought over and over again). This time he picked up 
and made the move, called by Jorgensen with 
.
Stuart, as is his wont, got up from the table and proceeded to back away from it. "Why are you getting up?" someone asked him.
The flop came down 
"That's why," sighed Rutter, as the turn and river came 
.
Haik Plays It Safe
Erik Haik just had a big old dwellathon going against Antoine Amourette when the latter bet 81,000 on the river of a 
river. We had the full five minute dwell plus clock before Haik folded.
Still on the bubble.
Action Slowed to Speed of Child Cleaning Up his Room
Each hand takes a good five minutes, and the players are on the main sitting and waiting, and folding once in a while, occasionally tangling while everyone else carries on the waiting. There were two hands in a row there where none of the four tables saw a flop, but they're all thinking carefully about every decision so even this was quite time consuming. Fair enough too - the next player out will have played for three days with no monetary reward at all, while the next one out is guaranteed €11,740.
One hand got a board and made it to the river - Fabrice Tuil calling Theo Jorgensen's preflop raise and then checking it all the way until that point, when he bet out 10k. Jorgensen looked over the 
board and threw in the call. Tuil showed him 
which won him the pot.
The Tank-Check-No-Bluff
Another pot for Michael Kwiek. Thomas Nielsen had opened preflop with Christophe Benzimra and Kwiek calling and the flop was checked to Kwiek who bet 25,000.
Nielsen folded but Benzimra called to see a 
turn. Both players checked and the river was the 
, unusually Benzimra now thought for almost five minutes, counting out chips before eventually checking and Kwiek checked behind showing 
to win the pot.
Van Zadelhoff Doesn't Mess Around
Stuart Rutter opened to 10,500 from middle position and Steven Van Zadelhoff reraised to 23,000 from the cutoff.
Rutter immediately announced all-in and Van Zadelhoff quickly folded, this bubble is getting long...