The players will be playing eight levels of 75 minutes. After every second level there'll be a 20-minute break. After level six, which should be around 20:15, there will be a dinner break. The tournament should be finished around midnight.
With a EPT Final Table (8th - EPT7 Snowfest) under his belt and lifetime earnings totaling more than $635,000, Morten Mortensen is a man with a lot of live experience. So the fact that he was motoring around the tournament room at breakneck pace looking a little flustered, some 15 minutes before the start of the tournament suggested something was up.
Turns out he's still in the Mini FPS event having made Day 2 with a short stack, but he's also due to play Day 1A of the PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Main Event. He wanted to get confirmation from Tournament Director Thomas Lamatsch over what his options were. "Your chips will not go into play until you pick up your seat assignment," explained Lamatsch. "So you win the Mini FPS you can play Day 1B, you bust out in 15 minutes you can play Day 1A."
"I like the first option better," said Mortensen with a smile and with that he wandered off to find his seat in the Mini FPS.
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Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
The PokerNews live reporting team is ready for a week of action from the French coast. We'll be keeping track of all the plays in both the €5.300 PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Main Event and the €10,300 High Roller.
Today is Day 1A and with a record breaking French Poker Series already in the books, we expect a big field here for the PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour. Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Julien Brecard and Marcin Horecki are among the many players who are taking part today. Some 170 seats have been won for the EPT Deauville Poker Festival Main Event, including EPT London champion David Vamplew, EPT Barcelona champion Kent Lundmark, Jeremy Nock, Paul Testud, Michael Fratty, EPT London finalist Ludovic Geilich and Russian player Yury Gulyy, who was 15th here last season.
We're supposed to start at 12pm local time, keep your eyes right here on this spot.
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