With just 35 minutes left in the day Yerai Iribarren has taken the chip lead, the Frenchman is up to 170,000 after eliminating Ben Jones in a hand that Mat Frankland said took over 10 minutes.
By the time I arrived at the felt the flop was already out but Frankland told me after the hand had finished that Iribarren (cut-off) had opened Jones had three-bet from the small blind, Iribarren had four-bet to 11,000, Jones had clicked it back to 16,100 and Iribarren had called.
So there was over 32,000 in the pot by the time the flop came down, Jones, who only had around 24,000 back took his time and then bet 5,500, Iribarren needed far less time to make the call. On the turn Jones again went into the tank before moving all-in for what looked like just under 20,000. Iribarren snap called and rolled over for flopped quads, Jones had and was drawing dead.
Now, stick with this because this involves some serious plot action and enough twists to tire out a professional salsa dancer.
*deep breath*
Omar Lakhdari limped from under the gun and FPS Deauville winner Niels van Leeuwen limped behind him. Pierre Antona then made it 2,000 and was called by Ludovic Geilich (EPT London finalist).
Jeremy Nock then moved all-in for not too much more and it was passed back around to Lakhdari who made the call. Van Leeuwen then came in with a backraise to 8,100 but Antona reraised all in for about 27,000. Geilich folded, as did Lakhdari but van Leeuwen instantly called.
Nock:
Antona:
van Leeuwen:
The flop was , Nock flopped a set but Antona had picked up a straight flush draw. The turn was the and Antona gained another three outs to win the entire pot. The on the river meant Nock picked up the main pot, more than trebling up while van Leeuwen eliminated Antona in the larger side pot.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here. Best French player? Erwann Pecheux in the number 92 spot.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard (last updated Jan. 27, 2014):
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
781.39
2
Vanessa Selbst
736.22
3
Thomas Muhlocker
594.30
4
Georgios Karakousis
512.31
5
Mike McDonald
490.74
6
Jonathan Little
480.01
7
Kenny Hallaert
416.40
8
Andrew Chen
414.18
9
Max Silver
412.50
10
Jeff Rossiter
408.43
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Jon Spinks shoved all in with and got called by the bigger stack Sebastian Gohr who had . Spinks was in great shape. Was. Gohr binked straight away. was the final board and Gohr took all his chips.
An event like EPT Deauville is the perfect place to go hunting for a title, especially if you're a front-runner for the coveted "first double champion" crown. But after Mike McDonald's near miss at the PCA, who is your favourite now to be the first player to show two trophies on their mantle? PokerStars blog investigates.
Hadrien Gallois doesn’t have a whole lot of chips left, starting with around 10,000, and he opened this pot for 1,200. Sat to his left with a rather larger stack, Patrick Bruel made the call and the blinds folded. A flop of and Gallois continued for 2,100. Bruel called. The turn was the and when Gallois checked, Bruel bet 6,000, Gallois looked glum and mucked. To ease his mind Bruel showed him the . To be honest I’m not sure it helped much.
In terms of making Day 2 it's a case of so close but yet so far for: Kevin Abecassis, Padraig O'Neill, Roman Korenev, Tomasz Kowalski, Elfad Mammadov, Zeien Thibaud, Walter Beckmann, Mokrane Boukedim, Erwann Pecheux, Lawrence Andreys and Paul Testud.