€5,300 Main Event
Dia 1a Iniciado
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
€5,300 Main Event
Dias: 1a
Event Info
Resultado Final
Event Info
Informações sobre o nível
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,211,200
Entradas
671
Nível
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Welcome from France!
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.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Multi-Tabling Live
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
Some Familiar Faces
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Eight Levels
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
Also Spotted
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Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
When Six-Handed is not Short Handed
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Poker players are rarely on time, certainly not for a tournament where they start with 300 big blinds and as a result most tables are playing short handed. At its most extreme some players only have two opponents, three is the minimum number needed for action to begin. John Eames finds himself at one such table, whilst Dominik Nitsche's table is positively bursting at the seams in comparison, there's a half dozen players at that one.
Likewise UKIPT3 Nottingham runner-up Iqbal Ahmed finds himself up against five opponents as does Fergal Nealon. whilst Irish Open champion Ian Simpson is at the same table as Eugene Katchalov as are two other players.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Three Handed Play Briefly Becomes Heads Up
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Play can begin as soon as three players have joined the table and that’s exactly what’s happening on Table 23 where Niall Farrell from the UK, Vitaly Lunkin from Russia and Vit Blachut from Czech Republic are the only players twenty minutes in. Following a button raise from Blachut and a defence from Farrell in the small blind, they saw a heads up flop of 
. Farrell, first to act, took the initiative and led out. It was enough to take the pot. A couple of hands later roles were reversed with Blachut in the small blind leading out on a flop of 
getting the fold from Farrell.
On the next hand Farrell was involved in a hand with Lunkin when the Russian’s phone went off. Facing a bet he promptly mucked his cards and left the table. For the next few hands Blachut and Farrell took turns raising in position to take advantage of the absent player, the action continues as the stack of Lunkin is still in play. No big pots developed over the next few minutes however and Lunkin soon returned to his seat where he was on the button, looked at his cards, and mucked in mock disgust having bled a few blinds.
Cohen to Make His Mark
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The vast majority of poker players are quiet, thoughtful types, generally trying to avoid showing a glimpse of their personality at the table for fear of giving away information to their opponents.
Lucien Cohen is not one of these people.
The Frenchman who won this event back in Season 7 (and finished 28th here last year) is well known for his loud, somewhat abrasive, style - that and the fact he tends to bring a stuffed rat with him to tournaments.
Expect, either today or some point this week, some mass gesticulating and shouting in French after a huge pot, usually culminating with Cohen scooping the chips.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 |