2012 World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris

Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2012 World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
€400,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€7,500
Prize Pool
€1,624,500
Entries
228
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

Seat 3: Theo Jorgensen (1,169,000)

Theo Jorgensen
Theo Jorgensen

Theo Jorgensen is unquestionably the most decorated player at the final table. Jorgensen has pocketed over $2.906 million in career live tournament earnings, and has won a WSOP bracelet (£5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2008 for $397,617) and a WPT Title (Season IX Grand Prix de Paris for $848,736).

Jorgensen is the only member of the WPT Champions Club remaining, and if he wins today he'll become the first player to win the same WPT event twice. Likewise, again, if he wins, Jorgensen will become the 18th player to win multiple titles.

Jorgensen is five eliminations away from making history, which could possibly be a trend here in Season XI of the World Poker Tour - at the very first event of the season, Marvin Rettenmaier became the first player to win back-to-back WPT titles.

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Seat 4: Fabian Quoss (570,000)

Fabian Quoss
Fabian Quoss

With over $1.46 million in career live tournament earnings, German Fabian Quoss enters the final table with the fourth-highest rank among the six on Hendon Mob's All-Time Money list. In 2010, Quoss took down the English Poker Open ($340,409), and in 2011, he won the German Poker Open ($130,380) and the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final ($189,582).

This is Quoss' first appearance at a WPT final table - he made the unofficial final table of WPT London in 2010 (7th, $40,631).

Quoss enters the final table with the shortest stack, but with roughly 30 big blinds he has plenty of room to operate.

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Seat 5: Timothy Adams (1,198,000)

Timothy Adams
Timothy Adams

The Mayans may have predicted global demise in 2012, but don't tell that to Timothy Adams. Adams has had his best year as a professional poker player here in 2012, winning a World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #28 ($392,476) and final tabling Event #57 (7th, $100,696) a few weeks later. Add three more WSOP cashes, and Adams has racked up over $554,896 in the last nine months.

No matter where he finishes today, this will be Adams' largest career live cash. If he wins then he, like Charania, will have three legs of poker's Triple Crown locked up.

Adams enters the final table third in chips, with both of the chip leaders on his direct left.

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Seat 6: Mohsin Charania (1,435,000)

Mohsin Charania
Mohsin Charania

Mohsin Charania is a professional poker player who cut his teeth online under the handles "chicagocards1" and "sms9231." Prior to 2012, Charania only had one six-figure score in a live tournament, and only one win, which came in a small €2,000 turbo event at EPT Loutraki.

That all changed in April though, because Charania took down the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final, earning himself $1,782,343 and a nice big trophy. Prior to the Grand Prix de Paris, Charania has appeared at an official final table on the World Poker Tour - he finished sixth at the World Poker Finals in 2010 ($104,741)

Charania enters the day second in chips, looking for his second big win of the year, but he has the chip leader Matt Salsberg on his direct left.

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The Final Stretch

Matt Salsberg - Chip Leader
Matt Salsberg - Chip Leader

The final table is set for the World Poker Tour Season XI Grand Prix de Paris, and the chip leader is Matt Salsberg with 1.757 million chips. Joining him at the final table are Mohsin Charania (1.435 million), Timothy Adams (1.198 million), Theo Jorgensen (1.169 million), Philipp Gruissem (776,000), and Fabian Quoss (570,00).

If Jorgensen, who won this event in Season XI, were to win today, he would become the first player to win the same WPT stop twice. For the other five players, this is their chance to members of the prestigious WPT Champions Club.

The cards will be in the air at approximately 1600 CEST, but first let's take a closer look at the players.

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Main Event

Day 5 Started

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