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EPT Deauville – Day 1B Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2014-01-29 05:54
The second Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event was expected to be much larger than the first one, and indeed, that’s exactly how it turned out to be. Although the exact number of participants is quite impossible to determine at this stage, given that registration will remain open until the beginning of Day 2, at the end of Day 1b, a total of 433 players had been registered by the system.
Not only were there more players at the tables on Day 1B, there were more professionals among them too. While Day 1A only saw Marcin Horecki and Eugene Katchalov play and advance, on Day 1B, scores of
PokerStars pros joined the action.
Bertrand Grospellier was among these players, dressed as a video game character from Assassin’s Creed no less. He didn’t do well at all poker-wise though, although he did draw a lot of attention otherwise. He finished the day with 9.9k chips to his name, and while his day 2 ticket had indeed been punched, he failed to secure a proper lease on his tournament life.
Guillaume Diaz bought into the dress-up idea as well: he showed up as a shark, but he was soon eaten up by all the smaller fish around him, and unlike Grospellier, he failed to advance.
The defending champion of the event, Remi Castaignon, played on Day 1B too. His title defense fell short, as he bit the dust relatively early in the running.
Down to his last few chips, Castaignon put his
poker tournament life onto the line against a player who had made a 4-card flush on the flop. The player filled his flush on a later street and Castaignon was done.
Steve O’Dwyer followed him to the rail, sent there by Luca Pagano. Ayman Zbib finished the day with the largest stack, having amassed 181.4k chips.
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