€5,300 Main Event
Dia 5 Iniciado
2014 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville
€5,300 Main Event
Dias: 5
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
Day 5: The Race to the Final Table
The 16 players who've navigated their way through a field of 671 to make Day 5 of the PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Deauville have already outlasted over 96% of the field. But for 50% of them Day 5 will be as far as they go, for today 16 become eight. Amongst those 16 we have chip leader Sotirios Koutoupas (2.695.000), the Greek player will be hoping to go one better than his runner-up finish at EPT9 Prague. Then there's Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov, he enters the day 10th in chips with a below average 1,002,000 but with above average talent most would expect him to make the final table.
Above Katchalov, but below Koutoupas, you'll find five Brits, two Frenchman and a Finn. Chun Ho Law (2,579,000) leads the British charge, but is ably backed up by two-time bracelet winner JP Kelly (1,801,000) Alex Goulder (1,365,000), Oliver Price (1,275,000) and Eli Heath (1,191,000). Finnish player Tatu Maenpaa won the biggest pot of the tournament so far and will start the day with 1,921,000, whilst France's best chance of a home win lies with Florian Ribouchon (1,719,000) and Alexandre Amiel (1,174,000).
Everyone left in has already locked up €27,680, for a reminder of the entire payout structure click here. This is how the 16 remaining players will start the day, the average stack is 52.5 big blinds.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tatu Maenpaa | Finland | 1.921.000 |
| 1 | 2 | Eli Heath | UK | 1.191.000 |
| 1 | 3 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 1.002.000 |
| 1 | 4 | Bahram Chobineh | Iran | 327.000 |
| 1 | 5 | Anthony Lerust | France | 839.000 |
| 1 | 6 | JP Kelly | UK | 1.807.000 |
| 1 | 7 | Rustem Muratov | Russia | 548.000 |
| 1 | 8 | Chun Ho Law | UK | 2.679.000 |
| 2 | 1 | Alexandre Amiel | France | 1.174.000 |
| 2 | 2 | Sotirios Koutoupas | Greece | 2.695.000 |
| 2 | 3 | Carlo De Benedittis | Italy | 417.000 |
| 2 | 4 | Dimitri Holdeew | Germany | 637.000 |
| 2 | 5 | Jean-Yves Malherbe | Belgium | 476.000 |
| 2 | 6 | Florian Ribouchon | France | 1.719.000 |
| 2 | 7 | Alex Goulder | UK | 1.365.000 |
| 2 | 8 | Oliver Price | UK | 1.275.000 |
And what a day it could be, some of the key storylines we'll be keeping an eye on include:
- Can Eugene Katchalov keep his Triple Crown bid alive?
- Will the curse of the chip leader strike again? On Day 2 and Day 4 the start of day chip leader failed to make it through the opening two levels of the day.
- Can Dimitri Holdeew, the Eureka Prague champion and EPT Prague 15th place finisher keep his amazing live run going and make the final table?
- Can Bahram Chobineh, who lost a bet to be here, turn that loss into even more gain and make the final table? He may be short on chips but he's big on heart.
- Will the penultimate day last longer than Prague where it took just two hours to go from 16 to 8? Surely it can't be quicker?
Almost Ready
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Nível: 24
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000
Background Check
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
A little bit of background about some of the players still in the field:
Alex Goulder, 25
Grew up near Cambridge, former poker dealer at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and also the WSOP-E in London.
Mainly live cash game player but a string of live results. Talented musician, spent much of his childhood studying music and playing in orchestras. Studied Economics at Nottingham University but after a break and return, dropped out altogether to play poker.
Sotirios Koutoupas, 31, Thessaloniki, Greece
Sotirios Koutoupas, 31, already has nearly $750,000 in lifetime tournament winnings – a large chunk of which he earned with his runner-up finish to Ramzi Jelassi at EPT Prague for € 510,000 in Season 9. Yesterday, Koutoupas told the PokerStars blog: “"I want to be the first Greek player who wins the EPT. I'll do my best.” Koutoupas, currently ranked third on the Greece all time money list, is one of a troop of Greek players who are clocking up big cashes on the tour: Georgios Karakousis was runner-up at EPT London in October and and George Manousos Sotiropoulos snagged €700,000 for his runner-up finish at EPT Prague. Koutoupas is not a pro or a full-time player – he helps run his family’s wholesale businesss - but has started picking up results and stacks that some tour pros would be pretty jealous of, including 56th at EPT9 Berlin for €15,000 and 25th at the recent EPT Prague for €24,900.
Bahram Chobineh, 37, Iran
Bahram Chobineh only came to play the EPT Deauville Main Event — his first EPT ever — after *losing* a bet with his home game buddies. He was as surprised as anyone to have cashed yesterday – and has now made it to the final 16. He’s here thanks to some great hands, including folding queens to aces preflop in an eyebrow-raising hand during the first level of Day 4 and an all-in late today when he had KT against JQ and there was a ten on the turn. Chobineh still insists: "I don't know what I'm doing” but is having a great time and is now being railed by his friend Amir who flew in Wednesday night.
JP Kelly, 27, UK
This is British pro JP Kelly’s first EPT this season but he's planning to play a lot more going forward. Kelly’s lifetime tournament winnings already total more than $2.5 million. He is already a two-time WSOP bracelet winner - the 2009 WSOP $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event and the 2009 WSOp-E £1k tourney in London later that year. However his biggest live cashes were his 12th place in the 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller for $587,778, and a deep run in the 2011 WSOP Main Event when came 26th for $302,005. His most recent big score was third in the €5k PLO side event at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final for €22,400. Kelly said that online, he mainly plays PLO cash games – his reported online tourney winnings (on the Hendon Mob) amount to more than $1 million.
Alexandre Amiel, 39, Paris, France
Journalist and TV producer Alexandre Amiel is a recreational player who took up poker around five years ago. Alexandre Amiel spent almost all of his 20s as a news reporter for Canal+ investigating the biggest stories in the country for France's equivalent of 60 Minutes. And, after moving on, he set up his own company producing documentaries, magazine programmes and talk shows, focusing on current affairs, culture and politics.
"I'll be more happy if I win, like everybody, but this is a game," Amiel said. "People have to know it's nothing but a game. If you don't think that, you're going to have a hard time playing poker." Amiel only took up poker about five years ago, by which point he was successful enough in business, and had a young family, for him not to allow the game to take over his life. Among the numerous programs produced by Amiel is Mon Plus Beau Coup de Poker, which loosely translates as My Best Poker Coup and screens on France's TF1. Perhaps surprisingly for a "poker" show, there are neither cards nor chips involved. Instead, a series of French celebrities (artists, designers and the like) are asked to describe a moment in their career where they took a calculated risk and won.
Holdeew Getting Short on Chips
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Florian Ribouchon raised the first two hands in a row and on the second Dimitri Holdeew played back at him by three-betting to 120,000 from the small blind. Back on Ribouchon he moved all-in and Holdeew immediately mucked. He's down to roughly 500,000 whilst Ribouchon is up to 1,850,000
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
1,850,000 | 131,000 |
|
500,000 | -137,000 |
Bahram Chobineh Eliminated in 16th Place (€27,680)
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
From the hijack position the likable Bahram Chobineh wanted to shove all in. That didn't go as planned as some chips fell of in the proces and it was declared a raise to 60,000. Chun Ho Law made the call from the big blind and check called the all in for 216,000 more on 
.
Law had outflopped the Iranian player with 
up against 
. The 
on the turn was no good for Chobineh and neither was the 
on the river.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminado |
Tácticas de Poker:
Price Makes Goulder Green at the Gills
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
A big pot just went the way of Oliver Price, who put Alex Goulder in the hurt locker on the river.
Pre-flop Price made it 48,000 from under-the-gun and Goulder flatted from the big blind. On the 
flop Goulder check-called a bet of 54,000 and the 
hit the turn. First to act Goulder led for 110,000 and Price smooth called. The 
hit the river, Goulder bet 225,000 only for Price to raise to 525,000. "This is so sick," said Goulder as he lent back in his chair. After a couple of minutes he mucked leaving himself with 900,000 whilst Price is up to 1,750,000.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
1,750,000 | 475,000 |
|
900,000 | -465,000 |
Muratov Doubles Through Maenpaa
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
In a button versus big blind situation the other short stacked player just doubled. It was Rustem Muratov who pushed all in and Tatu Maenpaa in the big blind snap called.
Maenpaa had found a more than decent hand with 
but it was no good as Muratov tabled 
.
The 
board didn't improve anybody except for adding a pair to both hands. Muratov doubled to little over a million.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
1,400,000 | -521,000 |
|
1,021,000 | 473,000 |
Jean-Yves Malherbe Eliminated in 15th Place (€31,000)
Nível 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
From under-the-gun Jean-Yves Malherbe moved all-in for 363,000, Alex Goulder requested a count, but passed, Sotirios Koutoupas moved all-in from the button and the blinds left them to it.
Koutoupas: 
Malherbe: 
It was looking grim for the Belgian and it didn't get any better on the 
board. With that coup Koutoupas increases his chip lead.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
3,095,000 | 400,000 |
|
Eliminado |