Miroslav Alilovic opened for 2,000 and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier shoved his remaining sub 9,000 stack over the top. The blinds folded and Alilovic made the call. ElkY had and was racing for his tournament life against the of Alilovic. The dealer dealt his fate and the cards fell the river card counterfeiting ElkY’s pair and ending his participation in the main event. Elky stormed away from the table in a rage and was in no mood for any consoling words as he headed for the exit.
When we arrived at the table, Alex Kravchenko was already all in and a call had followed. Kravchenko was seated in the cutoff position and his opponent, Bastian Fischer, was handling things from the big blind.
Kravchenko was all in for 29,600 with . Fischer held and flopped a queen: . Fischer would not improve more with the on the turn and on the river though.
Kravchenko doubled his stack, Fischer has to continue with just about 15,000 in chips.
There are a number of shoving stacks around the room as is to be expected. Sophie Tayeb and Roland Van Den Ent are two players who have made the move and found no callers to pick up those precious blinds and antes.
Two players had reached the turn and the board read and from the big blind Eric Sfez bet 1,120. Allan Tirel moved all in from the cut-off. At that moment Sfez’s phone went off in his pocket, he fumbled to locate it and the ringing stopped. He mucked his cards and muttered a few terse words into his phone and hung up.
On top of the regular competition here in Deauville, namely a huge Main Event tournament, there's a second layer for some of the players.
A total of 98 players (40 for day1A and 58 for day1B) got patched up for the Skrill Last Longer, a good 14% of the total field. Starting day 2 59 "Skrillees" are still fighting for their buy-in back. The last player standing from those who signed up, will receive it's buy-in back into him or her's Skrill account.
A nice little bonus for just wearing a patch. The following players are still in the running:
The PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event will get underway in about 35 minutes. Registration is still open so we can't give you any definite numbers yet. At the end of yesterdays Day 1B there were 385 players left from 667 registrants. Those numbers can thus still increase, forty more minutes to hand over €5,300 for those interested.
Eight levels of play are in the book and six more 75 minute levels awaits the players today. There will be no dinner break, just a 20 minute break after every second level:
Level
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
9
400
800
100
10
500
1,000
100
20 minute break
11
600
1,200
200
12
800
1,600
200
20 minute break
13
1,000
2,000
300
14
1,200
2,400
300
Levels will be 90 minutes from then on, but that's stuff to worry about on Day 3. First it's surviving business for the players still in it.
Lebanese player Ayman Zbib is the top dog with 181,400 in chips (226 big blinds). Dutch player [Removed:39] is the shortest stack with just 3,800 (4.7 big blinds), so he'll have to make quite the comeback to win it.
Watch this space; from 12 o' clock local time it will be filled with blog updates, photos and video interviews with your favorite players.
and was racing for his tournament life against the 
of Alilovic. The dealer dealt his fate and the cards fell 
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. Fischer held 
and flopped a queen: 
. Fischer would not improve more with the 
on the turn and 
on the river though.
and from the big blind Eric Sfez bet 1,120. Allan Tirel moved all in from the cut-off. At that moment Sfez’s phone went off in his pocket, he fumbled to locate it and the ringing stopped. He mucked his cards and muttered a few terse words into his phone and hung up.
