Adrian State shoved his last 13,000 into the middle and Jen Shahade looked him up from the button. The blinds got out of the way and action was heads up with State at risk.
Adrian State:
Jen Shahade:
The board ran out and Shahade held on with jacks to send State to the rail.
Basile Yaiche raised to 2,500 from the button before Johan Guilbert shoved for around 20,000 from the small blind. The big blind got out of the way and Yaiche called quickly to put him at risk.
Johan Guilbert:
Basile Yaiche:
The board ran out and Guilbert turned a pair of aces to secure the double in late Day 1a action.
Alejandro Lococo was all in for his last 25,000 and Antoine Vranken was the one to put him at risk. The cards were already turned over and the dealer was ready to go.
Alejandro Lococo:
Antoine Vranken:
The board ran out and Vranken turned a queen to eliminate Lococo in the last level of the night.
Patrik Jaros has been building a steady stack all day and mentioned earlier that he's "running hot" and that people keep betting into him despite him saying so. That form has continued into the last level of the day.
He opened to 3,000 from middle position before Kyung Sik Jung made it 8,500 from the hijack. Jaros jammed and Jung, who had around 22,000 behind, called.
Kyung Sik Jung:
Patrik Jaros:
Jaros stayed true to his earlier words and paired up on the flop to take the lead, and he held out to eliminate Jung following the turn and river.
The opening flight of the €5,300 Main Event at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Paris has come to an end, and Omar Gonzalez is the chip leader after a field of 661 entries turned out for the first of two opening flights in the flagship event of the series.
The Day 1a field generated a prize pool of €3,172,800, and a total of 221 players will return for Wednesday’s Day 2.
Gerard Carbo held the top stack for the latter portion of the night, and he finished the evening with 302,000 and the second most chips, while Patrik Jaros bagged 260,000 for the third spot on the leaderboard. Martin Merz and Gorki Oliveira round out the top five chip counts with 255,000 and 251,000, respectively.
2023 EPT Paris Main Event Top 10 Day 1a Chip Counts
Rank
Name
Country
Chips
Day 2 Big Blinds
1
Omar Gonzalez
Spain
317,000
211
2
Gerard Carbo
Spain
302,000
201
3
Patrik Jaros
Czech Republic
260,000
173
4
Martin Merz
Germany
255,000
170
5
Gorki Oliveira
Brazil
251,000
167
6
Silius Moll
Norway
245,000
163
7
Timo Kamphues
Germany
227,000
151
8
Majid Ejlal Noubarian
Iran
225,500
150
9
Sacha Zaffran
France
225,500
150
10
Adrian Mateos
Spain
222,000
148
Day 1a Highlights
Gonzalez was a factor in big hands all day, and his turning point came when Quentin Roussey tried to bluff him out of a big pot, but Gonzalez called after a long tank and turned over two pair to take his entire stack. A short time later, Gonzalez took another big pot from Ori Hasson with another two pair. Gonzalez will return with 317,000 in the bag for Day 2 and the chance to go on a magical run.
Big players on Day 1a included Adrian Mateos, Johan Guilbert, and PokerStars Team Pro Laurie Tournier. Tournier finished with 42,000, which includes chips from a clash with Jan Bednar where Tournier beat Bednar’s pocket fours with pocket tens. Tournier is looking for her first win on the EPT and her previous best finish is a run to fourth place in the 2022 Women’s Event at EPT Barcelona.
Lali Tournier
Guilbert was in trouble earlier on in the day, but he doubled through Basile Yaiche’s pocket kings when his ace-nine improved on the all-in runout. Guilbert bounced back and he will return for Day 2 with 115,000. He previously won the €10,200 6-Handed event, also at EPT Barcelona.
Mateos will return with a top-ten chip stack and a chance to continue his EPT dominance. Mateos won two EPT tournaments last year, including a €100,000 High Roller in Monte Carlo and a €25,000 High Roller in the winter edition of Prague.
Other players to bag for Day 2 include Boris Kolev, Mike Watson, Victoria Livschitz, Harry Lodge, Jonathan Jaffe, and Paulina Loeliger.
Gerard Carbo
Among the familiar faces that turned out for Day 1a but did not make survive are PokerStars Ambassadors Jen Shahade, Parker Talbot, Ramon Colillas, Andre Akkari, Rafael Moraes, Lex Veldhuis, and Alejandro Lococo, who made it to the late stages of the night but hit the rail when his short stack couldn’t double with pocket sevens.
Day 1b will kick off at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, and players will once again play 10 levels. The surviving players from both flights will combine on Wednesday for Day 2.
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team all week long for live updates from the floor of the €5,300 EPT Paris Main Event at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile.
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