Last Year's Day 1b Field Size Matched
The field for Day 1b has grown to 269 players of which 197 remain in action.
The field for Day 1b has grown to 269 players of which 197 remain in action.
Spain now has one less person in the field after Leo Margets was just eliminated.
France's Gregory Cometto opened the action from the button to 1,300. Margets three-bet to 3,100 from the blinds which Cometto called.
Both players check the action on the flop with Margets leading out for a bet of 3,200 on the turn which Cometto calls. Margets checked when the completed the board on the river. Cometto goes all in, and Margets calls off the rest of her stack of around 12,000 chips.
Cometto turns over for a full-house easily beating Margets' two-pair holding . Cometto is now among the chipleaders with 70,000 chips while Margets hits the rail before the second break. While she quickly left the tournament arena, she may still decide to re-enter with a couple of more blind levels open for her to do so today along with the possibility of joining the field tomorrow for Day 1c.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Gregory Cometto |
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Leo Margets | Eliminado | |
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Players are now on their second 20 minute break for the day. 189 of the 280 players that entered today remain.
Nível: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
With 284 entrants joining in on the action so far today bringing the tournament to 463 entrants thus far during the first two opening days, the Day 1a/1b combination is bigger this year than last year.
Team Winamax pro Aurélie Quélain was down to 4,000 chips and worked her way back up to 11,000. She was just eliminated now on a bad beat when she shoved her stack with blinds at 200/400 and an ante of 25 from under-the-gun with . The big-blind called with . It looks like Quélain had a good chance of doubling up until the spiked the river.
Quélain shared that she plans to take the rest of the day off and re-enter tomorrow when blinds are smaller. She said she would re-enter twice tomorrow if eliminated, but wanted to give it another chance first with blinds still at 50/100.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Aurélie Quélain
|
Eliminado |
Team WInamax pro Gaëlle Baumann is hoping that patience pays off. Baumann shared that she played a bunch of hands early, but now that her stack is down to 23 big blinds, she shared that her strategy is to remain patient and that she is waiting for a spot to make a move.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Gaëlle Baumann
|
12,500
-17,500
|
-17,500 |
Among those to leave the field before the second break were footballers Bernard Mendy and Léo Dubois.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Bernard Mendy
|
Eliminado | |
Léo Dubois
|
Eliminado |
France's Guillaume Darcourt is near the top of the field with 75,000 chips. Darcourt dominating a field isn't anything new as he has almost $1.4 million in live tournament cashes placing him in 30th place according to The Hendon Mob. Darcourt also has been known to dominate online poker. According to PocketFives, the French player was once ranked in the top 1,000 online poker tournament players in the world before the French online market became segregated.
On a separate note, some of the members of the media covering the tournament are secretly (or maybe not so secretly anymore) rooting for Guillaume Darcourt as he is the husband of the official photographer covering the tournament Caroline Darcourt.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Guillaume Darcourt |
75,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
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Another popular female player has exited the tournament. Baumann, who was down to 10 big blinds, shoved all-in with and was called by . What seemed like a good spot to double - or at a minimum split a pot - wound up instead sending Baumann to the rails when a appeared on the board.
Baumann left the tournament arena putting to rest any doubts about her potentially re-entering today. Late registration closes after Level 8 which is about to begin in a couple of minutes.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Gaëlle Baumann
|
Eliminado |