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EPT Deuville – Day 1A report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-01-21 11:19
Day 1A of the
EPT Deuville stop saw a huge field of 339 players show up at the tables. The nasty weather could’ve been partly responsible for the massive turn-out, but it’s far more likely that the temptation of the huge prize-pool was rather to be blamed. And what a prize-pool it will be. With this many players bellying up to the tables on Day 1A, last year’s 645 player starting field will probably be swept aside, together with the prize-pool record.
Team PokerStars pros Peter Eastgate and Dario Minieri were confirmed for the poker tournament, but they will obviously only get rolling on Day 1B. Their PokerStars teammates, Katja Thater, Arnaud Mattern and Vlad Zhuba were present though.
Mike McDonald was also among the starters, and so was an extremely strong French contingent, which included Antoine Saout, Remy Biechel and Paul Testud.
Adam Lounis was the first victim of the day. He was eliminated by no fault of his own though. He got his chips into the middle on pocket rockets and got called by a player with J,J. The underdog then proceeded to hit a set on the flop to bounce him.
Being as numerous as it was, the home contingent hit the rail in great numbers. Guillaume de la Gorce was among those eliminated too, as the field whittled to 190 players by the end of the hostilities.
Arnaud Mattern had a much better, albeit bumpy day. He began well and shot up to 60k chips without problems. He got hit by a series of losses though and soon found himself back at 20k. Close to the end of the day, his A,K beat a player’s pocket 10s and another guy’s pocket Js to earn him a triple-up and to send him to bed on a 60k chip stack.
The 9th level of the day was marked by the presentation of the French Poker Awards. Antoine Saout, Ludovic Lacay and Julien Brecard picked up some trophies, while Phil Ivey was not present to pick up his award for being the best international player.
Vladimir Geshkenbein had an excellent run and hovered around the top of the provisional leader board almost all day. When the dust settled though, it was Robert Cazarescu who emerged the chip leader with more than 219,000 chips.
