PARIS WPT - LIVE UPDATE

[Gamblor21]

i'm a smoggy! i've told you this before tikay, mackems are between us and the geordies... teesside is a whole accent in itself!

great reporting tho, ur to opposite styles compliment each other, like 'rice n pea'

Ian

[tikay]

OOps, 1.15pm Paris & just out of bed, so better be brief, lots to do.

Why, Ironside asks, two Day ones?

They had 220 runners last year. The expectation this year, given Poker's booming growth, had to be 300-400. A WPT with 150 runners? Not possible.

So we had the oddity of a WPT Day One with 70 runners. All very strange.

Any clues as to why?

We will start a new Thread for today, the second Day One.

Before we do, though, a big thanks to Bruno Fituoissi for his help yesterday. He was magnifique. Merci le Bruno.

And I know I am not supposed to say this - but that Jen really does have a lovely way with words, eh?, she makes my Updates look positively pedestrian. I think I will leave her to do all the Updates today - so sit back & enjoy.

[Karabiner]

Can you still enter the tourney Tikay ?

If so get in there !

A chance to win a WPT tourney with 150 runners.

Only wsop in06 to beat too.

 

[tikay]

Don't tempt me Karabiner - I really am aching to play it. Julian made it worse too, he called this morning & offered to buy a piece of me, there's a good mate, eh?.

But I have decided to play the big one at The Vic next week, I cant really afford to do both, & I have "things to do" this week - I have committed myself to some things I cannot reasonably get out of, so that's that. But thanks for the comment, I appreciate it.

[tikay]

Here are the Close of Play Chip counts from Day One. Rolf Slotboom, sat right next to me, kindly said we could take these off his blog. which can be found at www.pokerpages.com. Thanks Rolf!

Didier Leroy, 3/5, 32,725
Vladimir Troyanovsky, 23/5, 5,775
Jean-Louis Perez, 6/4, 24,950
Ilya Buliechev, 21/5, 18,125
J.J. Liu, 24/1, 39,800
Dan Alspach, 21/3, 40,350
Peter Heighway, 5/6, 19,325
Tor Gammelgard, 24/2, 51,150
Oskar Hornell, 2/9, 22,100
Isabelle Mercier, 3/7, 9,975
Francis Cagney, 4/8, 17,475
Narciso Baldo, 4/1, 10,425
Rick Chase, 3/6, 35,650
Jani Sointula, 24/5, 17,850
Imraan Ladak, 23/3, 29,150
Sergey Altbregin, 21/6, 5,625
Peter Fischer, 21/8, 42,700
Tim Anders, 4/7, 5,025
Carl Buckland, 22/7, 37,425
Dan Pedersen, 3/2, 19,075
Casey Kastle, 23/6, 37,500
Rory Liffey, 4/9, 25,725
Frank Callaghan, 21/7, 92,325 (chipleader)
Jason Strasser, 2/5, 83,825 (2nd chipleader)
Juha Helppi, 2/6, 20,250
Roland De Wolfe, 6/2, 46,675
J. Yves Chicheportiche, 23/8, 21,950
Rahal, 5/4, 24,050
Noah Boeken, 5/5, 61,425
David Tavernier, 2/7, 27,975
Mikael Thuritz, 22/8, 59,000
Eugene Todd, 5/7, 20,550
Alexander Kravchenko, 4/6, 8,875
Jean-Francois Guay, 22/1, 11,175
Nicolae Simcelescu, 23/4, 60,650
Ray Sanchez, 3/8, 24,925
Bruce Atkinson, 6/5, 20,825
Alan Goehring, 21/9, 37,500
Chad Hicks, 6/1, 24,975