Fabrice Soulier has exited the tournament area. We're not exactly sure what happened, but tweets don't lie:
Busted from Main Event, cards are not on my side in Deauville #Verydisappointed #nextIwillcrush #TeamEverestBetclic #fbFollow @_Fabsoul_
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminado |
Nível: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Another 75 minute level is in the books meaning we're halfway through the day. The players who've made it that far have been rewarded with a 20 minute break.
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Game over for Philippe Barouk, he was all in preflop with 
but ran into Alessio Isaia's 
and a board of 
quickly confirmed his exit.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
Eliminado |
There was a board reading 
and three players were still in the pot. Nikita Nikolaev bet 1,1800 from the big blind and was raised by Artem Metalidi from the Hi Jack to 4,200. Just to make it interesting Oleh Okhotskyi called from the small blind. Back on Nikolaev who now made it 7,600. Would that get rid of one of them? No. They both called to see a river card. 
. It was checked to Metalidi who asked for a count of the shorter stack Okhotskyi’s chips and got an answer of around 13k. He bet 7,225 and after a bit of thought Okhotskyi called with Nikolaev still to act behind. Nikolaev folded and when Metalidi showed his 
full house Okhotskyi nodded and slid his cards forward to fold.
Joseph Carlino was looking very happy with himself and well he might as he just eliminated Mario Adinolfi. The latter was all-in pre-flop for roughly 3,000 (he had a big tower of green T25 chips) with 
and was up against Carlino's . The pair held as the board ran 
.
Steven Comte just took a chunk out of John Eames by winning a pot worth just over 20,000 against the Englishman.
I joined the action with a board of 
on the felt and just over 8,000 in the pot. Comte (small blind) checked it over to Eames (under-the-gun+1) and he too rapped the table. The 
completed the board, Comte bet 6,250 and Eames then began to think it over. He cut his stack down, rechecked his cards and then took 6,250 out of his stack and counted what he had left.
Another 30 seconds passed during which Eames looked at Comte, almost unsure of what to do. Eventually he settled on calling, but he'll have wished he hadn't as Comte showed to take the pot. Eames is down to roughly 16,000.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
16,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
The Main Event is up to 237 players which makes for 7,110,000 chips in total. Last year the total for Day 1A was 307 players, with 475 on Day 1B. The tournament thus needs 545 or more players to register before the start of Day 2 to beat last years total. Remember that Season 10 allows player to register up until the start of Day 2.
Lebanese players have been tearing up the EPT for several seasons now, and Jeff Hakim has always been towards the front of the queue.
Laura Cornelius of PokerStars.tv caught up with Hakim as he starts his quest for glory at EPT Deauville. Take a look over on the PokerStars blog.
Dermot Blain, a Full Tilt Poker Ambassador, opened for 550 and found one caller in big blind Olof Haglund, a Swedish PokerStars Player. They saw a flop of and both checked. The turn was the and Haglund led out for 650 only to face a raise to 1,700 from Blain. Haglund made the call and checked when the river fell . Blain bet a hefty 4,400 and confirmed to his opponent that he had 24k behind. Haglund folded and Blain gathered in the chips.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
32,500
500
|
500 |
