Welcome back to Day 4 of the PMU.fr World Poker Tour National here at Cercle Clichy Montmartre in Paris.
Laurent Polito remains the man to catch as he chases an unprecedented third WPT National title having won the PMU.fr WPT National Cannes back in May this year and the Euro Finals of Poker 2013 in Paris.
Polito started Day 3 at the top and he again returns as the chip leader with 4,830,000. Alexandre Pereira Gama is the man in second place with 3,855,000 chips and leading the chasing pack is Carlo Savinelli with 1,680,000.
Yesterday saw 101 players return and after 10 hours of play they were down to the final 14.There were a total of 682 entrants for this tournament, comprised of 583 unique entrants and 99 re-buys generating a prize pool of €736,550.
The winner will receive €140,000; second place will pays €94,500 with third getting €61,000.
Play gets underway at 4 p.m. local time and once the official final table of eight is reached the action will be streamed on a short delay so the hole cards can be shown. We’ll let you know where you can watch the stream shortly after play begins.
It promises to be an exciting day of poker and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand right to the finish to bring you all the drama from the felt. Stay tuned.
Carlo Savinelli opened the action and got a call from Tarek Bouchama. The action folded to Faouzi Degachi who moved all in. While Savinelli folded Bouchama made the call.
Degachi tabled and Bouchama showed .
The board ran out and Degachi was the first player out.
Stephan Ouzilou opened for 195,000 with and Alexandre Pereira Gama called with . Franck Kalfon moved all in for 1,030,000 with and when Ouzilou folded Gama made the call.
The cards ran out and the spiked jack of Gama sent Kalfoln to the rail.
Guillaume Wilhelm opened the action for 200,000 and Laurent Polito three-bet to 515,000 with . Before it got back to Wilhelm Alexandre Pereira Gama moved all in for 2,500,000 holding . Wilhelm folded and Polito made the call.
The cards fell and Polito picked up another big pot on the way to eliminating Gama.
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and Bouchama showed 
.
and Degachi was the first player out.
and Wilhelm checked. Leonardi moved all in and was instantly called by Wilhelm who tabled 
for the flopped straight. Leonardi showed 
and river 
.
of Wilhelm.
and all of El Bakkouri’s chips belonged to Wilhelm
with Bouchama showing 
and Pereira Gama the 
and with Bouchama’s exit they were down to the unofficial table of nine.
and with Schaeffer being eliminated to warm applause the official final table of eight was set.
and Alexandre Pereira Gama called with 
and when Ouzilou folded Gama made the call.
and the spiked jack of Gama sent Kalfoln to the rail.
. Ouzilou slapped the table as his stack was crippled.
