Main Event
Day 2a Started
2014 PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Paris
Main Event
Day: 2a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Paris
Buy-in
€1,200
Prize Pool
€736,550
Entries
682
Level
32
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
25,000
Day 2a Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
212,000 | |
|
181,100 | |
|
177,700 | 177,700 |
|
175,700 | |
|
147,800 | |
|
139,100 | 139,100 |
|
|
133,100 | 133,100 |
|
|
127,500 | |
|
118,800 | 118,800 |
|
|
117,400 | 117,400 |
|
116,600 | 116,600 |
|
113,000 | 113,000 |
|
|
112,900 | 112,900 |
|
|
110,400 | 110,400 |
|
105,000 | 105,000 |
|
103,700 | 103,700 |
|
103,600 | 103,600 |
|
|
96,700 | |
|
96,400 | |
|
94,100 | |
|
93,300 | |
|
|
93,200 | |
|
92,200 | |
|
|
91,200 | |
|
91,000 | 91,000 |
PMU.fr WPT National Paris Day 2A Starts Shortly
Omar Lakhdari is the man to catch as Day 2a gets underway returning with 212,000 chips. Gregory Fournier is in second place with 181,100 and Day 1a chip leader Guillaume Wilhelm returns in third with 177,700.
This is the first of two Day 2s and 181 players are set to take their seats for this flight here at the Cercle Clichy Montmartre with their dream of capturing a World Poker Tour National title still alive.
Action is likely to be fast and furious in the first few levels of play as there is a raft of sub-twenty big blind stacks in play who will no doubt be looking for a good spot to get their chips in the middle
The prize pool details will be released today and we will bring you the full breakdown as soon as we get it and the players will find out just how much they will be playing for. There is still a long way to go before a winner is decided though with the money bubble set to burst sometime on Day 3 tomorrow.
Cards are in the air at 10 a.m. again today and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand to chart the tournament’s progress as we follow all the drama on the continuing road to crowning a new champion who is set to walk away with a big payday.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Cards In the Air
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Action is underway once again with blind levels switching to one hours levels now.
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Early Exits
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
There has been a steady stream towards the exit and the morning Parisian sunshine already in the first half hour. Of the total 181 who began the day 9 have bust out.
Chip leader Omar Lakhdari though looks in confident and relaxed mode, why wouldn’t he? He has already steamrollered a few pots by bombing the river with no one prepared to look him up as yet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
220,000 | 8,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Fine Edges; Sitbon Busts
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
If your stack is short and you flop a pair you hope you’re in good shape but that wasn’t the case as Julien Sitbon found to his cost. It was three-way to a flop of 
. Johann Beaudet had bet 11,000 and Sitbon had moved all in. Back to the third player in the pot, Gregory Fournier, who moved all in. Beaudet thought it over for a while but let it go.
Sitbon had hit with his 
but the two pair 
of Fournier had him in trouble. A turn 
and river 
sent Sitbon to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Lakhdari Crushing
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Omar Lakhdari shows no sign of slowing down. Earphones in and head nodding to the music on his tablet he has spent the first level and half collecting chips. His stack has now surpassed the 300,000 mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
322,000 | 102,000 |