€5,300 Main Event Dia 1b | 2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville

€5,300 Main Event

Dia 1b Iniciado

2014-01-27 12:36 UTC+2

Day 1B About to Start

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At noon the tournament will start its second starting day. Yesterday was a rather easy going day with just 234 players in action. Exactly a hundred wouldn't make it through the eight 75-minute levels and had to forfeit their chips early.

Today should be a lot busier. Last year Remi Castaignon triumphed over a 782 other players, if this years PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Main Event wants to beat those numbers we'll need at least 548 players today. The tournament room can handle those numbers, but will the players be here?

A lot of familiar names are in attendance here in Deauville today. Team PokerStars Pro's Jake Cody and Luca Pagano will play today, last years runner up Walid Bou Habib (2nd for €475,000) will start with 30,000 in chips and Niels Van Leeuwen, yesterdays French Poker Series winner, will start. And then there's Patrick Bruel, the accomplished French singer, actor, and professional poker player will make his appearance today. Not to sing a nice little intro song, but to gather all of the chips in the room.

PokerNews' live reporting starts in just under half an hour. Follow the action right here, from start to finish - what should be around midnight.

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	50	100	-
2	75	150	-
	20 minute break
3	100	200	-
4	100	200	25
	20 minute break
5	150	300	25
6	200	400	50
	75 minute dinner break
7	250	500	50
8	300	600	75

Nível: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

2014-01-27 13:21 UTC+2

Some Familiar Faces

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There are still a lot of empty spots, but also a lot of familiar faces already. Some of the players arriving right on time:

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Steven Watts	30,000	30,000
Jamila Von Perger	30,000	30,000
Jake Cody	30,000	30,000
JP Kelly	30,000	30,000
Manig Loeser	30,000	30,000
Luca Pagano	30,000	30,000
Noel Gaens	30,000	30,000
Stephen Chidwick	30,000	30,000
Antonio Matias	30,000	30,000
Govert Metaal	30,000	30,000
Walid Bou Habib	30,000	30,000
Konstantin Puchkov	30,000	30,000
Sofia Lövgren	30,000	30,000
Martin Staszko	30,000	30,000

2014-01-27 13:22 UTC+2

More Notables

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Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jan Heitmann	30,000	30,000
Natalie Hof	30,000	30,000
Jon Spinks	30,000	30,000
Kevin MacPhee	30,000	30,000
Mat Frankland	30,000	30,000

Tags: Jan Heitmann Kevin MacPhee

2014-01-27 13:28 UTC+2

I Want to Play Too

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PokerStars Tournament rules state that at least three players must have their stacks in play before the dealer can start dealing. This means that some of the early risers might as well have stayed in bed. Whilst most tables meet this requirement there's quite a few tables where only one or two players have shown up. At one particular table the solitary arrival looked on forlornly as a hand went on at an adjacent table.

2014-01-27 13:34 UTC+2

Who is Sitting with Who?

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Many of the tables haven't quite filled up yet but that hasn't stopped some of them being filled with a few interesting draws.

Mat Frankland, who has had two deep runs in this event in the last three years, is sitting next to EPT London finalist Ludovic Geilich. Elsewhere Jamila Von Perger, who won the Ladies' Event last night is sharing a table with Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano. Von Perger's other half, Manig Loeser is sitting on the same table as Bulgarian bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jamila Von Perger	30,000
Luca Pagano	30,000
Simeon Naydenov	30,000
Manig Loeser	30,000
Mat Frankland	30,000
Ludovic Geilich	30,000

2014-01-27 13:38 UTC+2

The Room Is Getting Busier

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Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Michael Tureniec	30,000	30,000
Praz Bansi	30,000	30,000
Ignat Liviu	30,000	30,000
Sylvain Loosli	30,000	30,000
Jan Collado	30,000
Jasper Wetemans	30,000	30,000
Gaëlle Baumann	30,000	30,000
Toby Lewis	30,000	30,000

2014-01-27 13:40 UTC+2

Early Action

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It’s very early in the day and a lot of hands are being played quite cautiously as the tables fill up and players begin to suss out their opponents tendencies, playing styles and, as overheard already, “Your range.” But where there are poker players there will always be action and for the short time we observed one table it seems that PokerStars Qualifier Jack Melki from France doesn’t want to hang around.

Melki took a decent 10k pot from another PokerStars Qualifier, Ukrainian Albert Mykhaylyuta. On a final board of Mykhaylyuta had flopped two pair with but was out flopped by Melki who held . Not long after Melki took another pot from the same player when running sixes on the turn and river counterfeited Mykhaylyuta’s flopped two pair. He was not amused.