€2,200 FPS Paris High Roller | 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris

2023-02-20 17:04 UTC+2

Alexandridis Eliminated by Bianchetti

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Nível 23 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Following an open raise by Brazil's Saint Yves Braulio Bianchetti, Symeon Alexandridis pushed all-in for 280,000 from one seat over.

Symeon Alexandridis:
Saint Yves Braulio Bianchetti:

The board delivered no help to Alexandridis, who was knocked out just prior to the final five tables.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Ladislao Dalfo Batlle	1,125,000 205,000	205,000
Saint Yves Braulio Bianchetti	1,000,000 601,000	601,000
Tetsuma Ishizu	760,000 532,000	532,000
Hugo Machado	700,000 -50,000	-50,000
Michael Ferrer	560,000 312,000	312,000
Julien Rouxel	475,000 -325,000	-325,000
Sylvain Loosli	250,000 -230,000	-230,000
Symeon Alexandridis	Eliminado

Tags: Symeon Alexandridis Saint Yves Braulio Bianchetti

2023-02-20 16:35 UTC+2

Naves Gets Tens Cracked and is Eliminated

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Nível 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Georgios Vrakas raised to 40,000 and Dorian Melchers reraised to 110,000. Tauan Naves shoved all in for 400,000. Vrakas called and, after asking the dealer for chip counts, Melchers also got it in.

Tauan Naves:
Georgios Vrakas :
Dorian Melchers:

Naves was looking strong with his pair of tens, with Vrakas and Melchers blocking each other's outs. Then, the flop came to give both Vrakas and Melchers a pair of aces. They split the pot and Naves was eliminated from the tournament.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Dorian Melchers	750,000 125,000	125,000
Georgios Vrakas	330,000 55,000	55,000
Tauan Naves	Eliminado

Tags: Dorian Melchers Georgios Vrakas Tauan Naves

2023-02-20 15:59 UTC+2

Ha Has the Last Laugh

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Nível 21 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Nariman Yaghmai and Mauricio Ferreira Pais were all-in and at risk preflop with the latter being the slightly bigger stack on around 250,000. They were both looked up by Woojong Ha, who entered the showdown with the worst pocket pair.

Nariman Yaghmai:
Mauricio Ferreira Pais:
Woojong Ha:

As the Germans keep on saying especially after the 2014 EPT Barcelona Main Event, "it is always coming seven".

Both shorter stacks remained ahead on the flop and turn. However, the river improved Ha to a full house and that ensured a double knockout.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Woojong Ha	925,000 325,000	325,000
Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Eliminado
Nariman Yaghmai	Eliminado

Tags: Mauricio Ferreira Pais Nariman Yaghmai Woojong Ha

2023-02-20 15:05 UTC+2

One Double-Up and Two Eliminations on Table Three

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Nível 20 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Maxim Bevers was all-in with the and clashed with another jack-ten suited, as Yury Masliankou revealed the . The flop left Bevers with zero equity, making the turn and river a formality.

Frederic Delval then flopped the nut flush with against the of Nariman Yaghmai on a board of for the double.

Last but not least, table chip leader Manuel Labous added to the "I flopped a flush collection" by dispatching Masliankou. On a board, the of the Belorussian stood no chance versus .

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Manuel Labous	1,600,000 600,000	600,000

Frederic Delval	260,000 80,000	80,000
Nariman Yaghmai	100,000 -30,000	-30,000
Maxim Bevers	Eliminado
Yury Masliankou	Eliminado

Tags: Frederic Delval Manuel Labous Maxim Bevers Nariman Yaghmai Yury Masliankou

2023-02-20 14:54 UTC+2

Veldhuis Eliminated in Spectacular Three-Way All-In

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Nível 20 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Soon after his last two all-in clashes, Lex Veldhuis was all-in once more and Mehdi Chaoui also got a shorter stack into the middle from the next seat. Maxim Bevers looked them both up and had the best pocket pair of the trio involved.

Lex Veldhuis:
Mehdi Chaoui:
Maxim Bevers:

The flop kept Bevers on track for a double elimination. After the turn, Chaoui picked up a gutshot and asked for a six. Instead, he hit the on the river to improve to a winning set. His 245,000 ensured a triple up while Veldhuis was sent to the payout desk.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Mehdi Chaoui	800,000 564,000	564,000
Maxim Bevers	110,000 -210,000	-210,000
Lex Veldhuis	Eliminado

Tags: Lex Veldhuis Maxim Bevers Mehdi Chaoui

2023-02-20 14:35 UTC+2

Batlle's Aces Hold to Eliminate Cinca and Szabo

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Nível 20 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Ladislao Dalfo Batlle raised and Alexandru Cinca went all in for 104,000. Levente Szabo came over the top with a shove and Batlle called. Three players flipped their cards for the all in.

Alexandru Cinca:
Levente Szabo:
Ladislao Dalfo Batlle:

The board ran out . Batlle's aces held up to eliminate both Cinca and Szabo.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Ladislao Dalfo Batlle	920,000 843,000	843,000
Alexandru Cinca	Eliminado
Levente Szabo	Eliminado

Tags: Alexandru Cinca Ladislao Dalfo Batlle Levente Szabo

2023-02-20 13:55 UTC+2

Tajiou Busts Wakil; Doubles Mokrani

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Nível 19 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Jamil Wakil nursed the last few big blinds for a couple of minutes before they went into the middle against Mounir Tajiou.

Jamil Wakil:
Mounir Tajiou:

The flop instantly left Wakil drawing dead, which made the turn and river a formality.

Soon after on the same table, Tajiou raised, Mohamed Mokrani three-bet and then called the four-bet shove for the 185,000 he had behind.

Mohamed Mokrani:
Mounir Tajiou:

The aces prevailed thanks to the board and Tajiou had to fork over a big portion of his stack.

"No ace king one time?" Tajiou inquired and Mokrani replied "ace-king I just call".

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Mohamed Mokrani	390,000 196,000	196,000
Mounir Tajiou	130,000 -135,000	-135,000
Jamil Wakil	Eliminado

Tags: Jamil Wakil Mohamed Mokrani Mounir Tajiou

2023-02-20 13:38 UTC+2

Jordon Hits Quads to Beat Dijkkamp's Full House

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Nível 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

In an all in confrontation that ran out in spectacular fashion, Lennart Dijkkamp made an early position raise to 16,000 and Terry Jordon shoved his stack in the middle from the button. Dijkkamp called.

Terry Jordon:
Lennart Dijkkamp:

The flop ran out to give Jordon a set of sevens and Dijkkamp a set of queens.

It looked like Jordon was all set to bust and he was stood up behind his chair before the turn came the . That gave Jordon quad sevens and left Dijkkamp looking for a single queen to bring it back. The river was the and Jordon scooped the pot for a double up.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Terry Jordon	200,000 101,000	101,000
Lennart Dijkkamp	170,000 -71,000	-71,000

Tags: Lennart Dijkkamp Terry Jordon

2023-02-20 13:17 UTC+2

Lybaert Doubles; Hasson Busts

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Nível 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Bart Lybaert was all-in with a very short stack and his faced an uphill battle in showdown against the of Shimizu Nozomu.

The runout gave the Belgian two pair to survive.

One table over, two shorter stacks got their chips into the middle in Dorian Melchers and Gary Hasson with the latter at risk.

Gary Hasson:
Dorian Melchers:

The dominated ace got there thanks to four diamonds on the runout and Hasson was the next to bow out.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Shimizu Nozomu	290,000 -9,000	-9,000
Dorian Melchers	190,000 82,000	82,000
Bart Lybaert	100,000 64,000	64,000
Gary Hasson	Eliminado

Tags: Bart Lybaert Dorian Melchers Shimizu Nozomu Gary Hasson

2023-02-20 12:00 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 2 of the €2,100 French Poker Series High Roller at EPT Prague

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Welcome to Day 2 of the €2,100 French Poker Series High Roller at PokerStars European Poker Tour Paris. Cards go in the air at 12:00 p.m. local time and will play down to a winner.

A total of 910 entries were turned in at Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, which made for a total prize pool of €1,747,200. Of those, 134 players will return for the second day, each guaranteed to cash for at least the minimum of €3,350. The player who comes out on top is set to walk away with €305,300.

Manuel Labous of France topped the leaderboard with 1,106,000 chips and is the only player with over one million. Behind him is Luis Machado of Portugal, who has 702,000. Currently in third place is Julien Rouxel, followed by Alexandru Papazian in fourth, and Daewoong Song sits in fifth place. Most PokerStars ambassadors have already been eliminated, the exception being Lex Veldhuis who sits on 131,000 chips.

€2,100 FPS High Roller Top 10 Chip Counts

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Manuel Labous	France	1,106,000	184
2	Luis Machado	Portugal	702,000	117
3	Julien Rouxel	France	573,000	96
4	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	569,000	95
5	Daewoong Song	South Korea	563,000	94
6	Toivo Rinne	Finland	506,000	84
7	Quentin Roussey	France	469,000	78
8	Darko Svesko	Serbia	468,000	78
9	Jon Kyte	Norway	451,000	75
10	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	424,000	71

Day 2 commences at 12:00 p.m. local time and will start with just a few minutes to go on blind level 17. Blinds will be at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 big blind ante. The tournament is expected to play to its finale tonight, meaning a winner will be crowned.

PokerNews are here to bring you the action live from the tournament floor. Stay tuned for updates.

Tags: Alexandru Papazian Daewoong Song Darko Svesko Jon Kyte Julien Rouxel Lex Veldhuis Luis Machado Manuel Labous Quentin Roussey Silviu Baltateanu Toivo Rinne