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WPT Grand Prix de Paris – Day 1A Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2012-09-11 13:52
The renowned Aviation Club de France played host to the first day 1 flight of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris on Monday. A total of 96 players showed up at the tables of the
NL Holdem event, each of them paying a €7.5k buy-in. A total of 7 levels of action were squeezed into the day, at the end of which Jacques Enjoubault emerged with the largest stack. He managed to build a stack of 225.2k chips.
Most of Enjoubault’s chips came at the end of the day, when he took down a massive pot from Mickael Layani.
The hand started out as a 3-way one: besides Layani and Enjoubault, Tony G was involved in it as well. The flop fell Qh,8d,10d and Tony G wasted little time trying to assert control over the pot. He fired out a 5k bet, in response to which Layani shoved all-in. Enjoubault was quick to make the call and Tony G promptly got out of the way.
It turned out that Layani had a Q,8 for the two pair and Enjoubault had a 9h, 7h for the open-ended straight draw. A 6 on the turn filled his straight and the A which fell on the river pretty much sealed the deal.
Needless to say, tons of ‘name’ pros found the way to the rail on Day 1A. Among them were Vanessa Selbst, Roberto Romanello, David Benyamine, Guillaume Darcourt and Will Failla. Failla was eliminated on a massive bad beat: he had a full house against Jason Mercier’s quads. Obviously, he couldn’t get away from the hand, but he will still get a chance to re-buy on Day 1B, so he may not be completely out of the books yet.
Local player Antony Lellouche had a good day too: he finished with 178k chips to his name. Kara Scott and Tristan Wade made the cut too, albeit on much smaller stacks.
