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EPT Deauville – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-01-24 10:29
The second day of the
EPT’s Deauville stop was the scene of some radical provisional leader board changes. 395 players survived day 1A and Day 1B of the poker tournament, and although PokerStars’ Luca Pagano finished Day 1B in the chip lead, the player with the most chips was still Robert Cezarescu, the chip leader of Day 1A.
Ludovic Lacay was one of the players who made nice progress through Day 2. The Frenchman chipped up steadily until he hit the 400,000 chip mark and suddenly found himself in contention for the chip lead. It was then that the largest pot of the day developed, with Lacay involved neck deep in it of course. At the $2,000/$4,000 blinds level, Ricardo Mazzitelli got trapped by Lacay and the two put all their chips into the middle. Lacay held Ah,Kh against Mazzitelli’s As, 10s. The board gave both players a pair of As but Lacay’s superior kicker made the difference and he chipped up to 600k. He dropped around 100k till the end of the day, but his remaining stack was still enough for 3rd overall.
The end of the day chip lead went to Nicholas Levi, who hung on to a medium stack for most of the day. It was a sudden end of the day thrust that propelled him into the chip lead, past Lacay, and with 648,500 chips in his stack, over 100,000 chips ahead of second place man George Secara.
Team
PokerStars Pro was well represented at the start of Day2, and despite some of its players being bounced, things still looked solid for the online poker representatives.
Arnaud Mattern and Vlad Zguba were two of the unlucky Team PokerStars members who didn’t make it past the day. Others, like Jude Ainsworth and Vadim Markushevski, did much better and survived somewhere in the middle of the pack.
Still others, like Dario Minieri and Luca Pagano, did even better than that and finished with more than healthy stacks.
Peter Eastgate finished near the top, with 294,000 chips so he is excellently positioned for a deep run or even for the win.
With the money bubble tantalizingly close, 133 players bagged their chips, having earned the right to belly up to the tables of the Barriere Casino on Day 3.
