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The EPT's annual return to the elegant seaside resort of Deauville in Normandy is now well-established and will be taking place in Season 8 from January 31 - February 6, 2012. Last season, the event broke its own record, attracting 891 players to the Casino de Deauville and generating a €4,276,800 prize pool.

This season, the event will again be taking place in the spacious new tournament area located in an annexe of Casino Barriere at The Deauville International Centre - located right on Deauville's beautiful beach and close to the town's premier hotels, shops, bars and restaurants.

Frenchman Lucien Cohen won the Season 7 event on home soil, taking the title for a first prize of €880,000 after besting the record-breaking field. The result was a disappointment for Swedish PokerStars qualifier Martin Jacobson however who was beaten heads-up, giving him his second runner-up finish of the season. Jacobson went on to win the EPT7 Online Qualifier of the Year title, amassing total earnings in Season 7 of more than €1.1 million.

January 31 - Tuesday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 1A    €5,000 + €300
16:00    8    NL - One Rebuy Super Satellite to Main Event    €500 + €50
19:00    9    NL - Turbo - Bounty    €500 + €500 + €100
21:00    10    NL - Turbo    €300 + €30
February 1 - Wednesday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 1B    €5,000 + €300
16:00    11    NL - Turbo - Random Bounty    €800 + €200 + €100
20:00    12    NL - Double Rebuy + Addon Super Satellite to €1.5K (Event #19)    €150 + 25
22:00    13    NL - Turbo - Bounty    €400 + €40
February 2 - Thursday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 2    €5,000 + €300
16:00    14    NL - Holdem - Day 1    €1,500 + €150
18:00    15    PLO - Day 1    €1,000 + €100
20:00    16    NL - Double Rebuy + Addon Super Satellite to €2K (Event #25)    €200 + €25
21:00    17    NL - Turbo - Bounty    €300 + €100 + €40
22:00    18    NL - Double Rebuy + Addon Super Satellite to €10K (Event #29)    €500 + €50
February 3 - Friday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 3    €5,000 + €300
12:00    19    NL - Heads Up - 32 Player Cap - Day 1    €5,000 + €300
13:00    14    NL - Holdem - Final Day    €1,500 + €150
14:00    15    PLO - Final Day    €1,000 + €100
15:00    20    NL - Holdem - Day 1    €2,000 + €200
18:00    21    NL - Turbo - MEN ONLY    €300 + €30
21:00    22    NL - Super Satellite to €10K (Event #29)    €1,500 + €150
21:00    23    NL - Turbo Super Satellite to Women's Event (Event #30)    €50 + €15
February 4 - Saturday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 4 - play down to 24 players    €5,000 + €300
12:00    24    NL - Holdem - Day 1    €10,000 + €300
12:00    19    NL - Heads Up - 32 Player Cap - Final Day    €5,000 + €300
13:00    25    NL - Holdem - Women Only    €300 + €30
13:00    20    NL - Holdem - Final Day    €2,000 + €200
14:00    26    NL - Holdem - Day 1 - France Poker Series*    €1,000 + €100
18:00    27    NL - Turbo - Bounty    €300 + €100 + €40
20:00    28    NL - Double Rebuy + Addon Super Satellite to DeepStack (Event #34)    €80 + €20
February 5 - Sunday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 5 - play down to 8 players    €5,000 + €300
12:00    24    NL - Holdem - Day 2    €10,000 + €300
12:00    29    NL - Holdem - "DeepStack" - Day 1    €800 + €80
13:00    26    NL - Holdem - Final Day    €1,000 + €100
13:00    30    PLO    €500 + €50
16:00    31    NL - Heads Up Challenge - Womens Winner vs. Mens Winner    Invitation
21:00    32    NL - Turbo       €300 + €30
February 6 - Monday
12:00    7    Main Event Day 6 - Final Table    €5,000 + €300
12:00    24    NL - Holdem - Final Day    €10,000 + €300
12:00    29    NL - Holdem - "DeepStack" - Final Day    €800 + €80
13:00    33    NL - Holdem    €500 + €50
14:00    34    NL - High Roller - Turbo - "6 Max"    €5,000 + €250
18:00    35    NL - Hyper Turbo - 10K Stack / 10 Min Levels    €100 + €20



News, chips, stories on this thread please

221 of 339 made it through 1a

chip leaders were

Kristijonas Andrulis   162,600   
Philippe Ma   162,200   
Elie Payan   141,800   
Julien Claudepierre   128,200   
Marchel Masaladzhiu   114,600   
Yoann Amaudry   111,600   
Denis Patout   102,500   
Pavel Perfilov   100,300   
Pierre Barthelemy   99,800


Christopher Brammer   80,700   
James Mitchell   80,000
James Dempsey   50,900

As reported by liv Boeree on social media this morning

In level 1 of Day 1b today a player is all in with A-K and accidentally exposes his hand

A second player ( with 9-9 as it happens ) can call or fold, and effectively have a €5,000 + €300 flip early doors

Do we go for this?

(results follow!?)

Of course, if we are Liv Boeree we aren't going to have a big edge in this tournament.  Assuming the AK isn't suited, won't this be 57/43 and not a flip?

no, shes a nit

Assuming the 99 had already put some chips in the pot, meaning there was dead money + AK's chips to win, it's a no brain call surely?

Here is what she said on twitter


Great table. So far witnessed a spectacle where 99 got it in preflop 1st level vs an EXPOSED AK suited, who snapped. €5k flip? No big deal.

Sounds like the AK snap called the 99 shove despite exposing his hand previously. 

Assuming the AK off 3 bet and exposed, surely calling is best with 99?  AK9 flop would be fun.  I think you are actually 55/56% depending on suits with 99.  EIther way I don't think 99 made an error here.

As an aside we had a hand at GUKPT Manchester.  UTG raised to 400 at 50/100.  BB had just sat down and shipped 20K in.  UTG said he couldn't fold QQ and called.  Other fella had AK off.   

It went player A opens player B calls, C then decides to 3bet and expose AK. A flats and now B decided to 4bet which is obviously stupid. C then piles it in and now B tanks which is even funnier almost as if he didn't expect AK to get it in.

889 played EPT Deauville

550 are left


Day1b chip leaders

Amir Salhani   191,100   
Joakim Lofgren   173,000   
Toufik Ouirini   166,800   
Bartosz Kocinski   142,000   
Aurelien Guiglini   133,700   
Raphael Kroll   132,000   
Jannik Moser   131,400   
Saul Berdugo   130,900   
Xavier Detournel   128,800   
Leandre Omeir   125,900


Brits

Martins Adeniya   115,200   
Toby Lewis   93,200   
Jake Cody   78,400   
John Gale   47,400   
Praz Bansi   46,400   
Zimnan Ziyard   39,200   
Liv Boeree   34,700   
Max Silver   32,300   
Benjamin Martin   11,400   

Rich,

I have not seen the Blog or "overnights", but was there no mention of Dan Carter? (see http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56629.15 )

my mistake. I blame not expecting to see him....

Dan Carter   76,700

Happy days!

Thanks Rich.

lol im sure its one huge level.

current leaderboard....fingers crossed!


averge is 82k

300 left, 122 paid

Christopher Brammer   360000   
Martins Adeniya   -35000   
Chris Karagulleyan   350000      
Brahim Oubella   348000      
Sergey Baburin   310000      
Jannik Moser   303200      
Toby Lewis   300000      
Frederick De Vis   300000      
Fehmi Cherif   300000      
James Dempsey   295000


Toby opened AQ, was met by shove and reshove by two smallish stacks both with AK, spiked a Q and wnt up to 380k a short while ago

178 remain, 122 paid

Martins Adeniya   512,200   
Brahim Oubella   452,000
Artem Litvinov   397,100   
Ludovic Lacay   377,300
Jason Hallee   375,900   
Julien Ehrhardt   363,600   
Chris Karagulleyan   360,700   
Andre Vieira Andrade   345,000   
Fehmi Cherif   338,400   
Samphane Phomveha   334,800   
Sergey Baburin   327,900   17,900
Mihai Manole   323,200   
Christopher Brammer   321,900   
Christian Togsverd   321,500   
Paul Guichard   320,800   
Niclas Martinsson   315,300   
Pierre Barthelemy   306,900   
Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes   304,600   
Koen De Visscher   301,800   
Marc Inizan   295,500   
Mustapha Kanit   289,000   
David Lichentin   279,000   
Toby Lewis   278,000   
Marko Neumann   277,700   
James Dempsey   274,600   

Average is 150,000

The PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event played down from 178 players to the final 54 on Friday night.

EPT London finalist Martins Adeniya came into play as the clear chip leader and a steady day kept him near the top of the counts throughout. A massive 1.5 million chip pot nearing the end of the night however, handed France’s Samphane Phomveha the overnight lead.

The 128-player money bubble was reached midway through the day’s third level and the only thing building faster than the line-up at the cash out cage following the bubble appeared to be Ondrej Vinklarek’s stack. The Czech national, who crushed the side events at EPT Prague in October, quickly became the first player over the one-million chip mark using an aggressive style of play and a little run-good. In the closing moments, he shoved king-five off-suit preflop into Phomveha’s pocket kings to hand him 1.471 million chips and the overnight chip lead.

Vinklarek wasn’t the only one with an up and down day. Frenchman Ludovic Lacay seemed to take the same line. At one point, he shot up to 950,000 and the top of the leaderboard by picking up aces against two shorter stacks with jacks and tens. But after Adeniya was moved to his table and took a chunk out of his stack, pushing him off a 200,000 pot on a four-flush board, Lacay seemed to spend the rest of the day hovering around the half million mark. That is until the late stages when Christopher Brammer rivered an ace against his pocket jacks to send him home.

Notables joining Lacay in cashing, but busting throughout the day included 2010 EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis, WPT and WSOP title holder James Dempsey, French rap mogul Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, and Lucille Cailly.

Making the money certainly meant something to that group, and to the handful of PokerStars qualifiers still in when the bubble burst, but it also marked another big occasion for the final Team PokerStars Pro left standing. Luca Pagano guaranteed a record 20th EPT cash by making the money here, but picked up aces to double up soon after the bubble burst to stay alive and ended with a 344,000 stack heading into Saturday’s Day 4.

Big stacks also still in contention for the €875,000 first-place prize include Brammer, France’s Olivier Rogez, and 2011 EPT San Remo sixth-place finisher Yorane Kerignard.

Top 10 Stacks Heading into Day 4
Place   Player   Chip Count
1   Samphane Phomveha   1,471,000
2   Olivier Rogez   1,098,500
3   Christopher Brammer   1,090,000
4   Yorane Kerignard   979,000
5   Martins Adeniya   893,000
6   Koen De Visscher   880,000
7   Gereon Sowa   787,000
8   Kevin Vandersmissen   759,000
9   Julien Ehrhardt   748,000
10   Rob Stain   740,000


all the best to Bram tomorrow

Bramtastic. gogogogogooooooo

GL Chris, win it all.

http://www.pokerstarslive.fr/news/webcast-ept-tout-le-week-end_95

if any one wants to watch live . all in french though  : )

une fois une fois !

wonder if he still getting stick on AWOP in that com thread.

24 go back today

again, good luck to Bram

Luca Pagano   3561000   111000   PokerStars Team Pro
Olivier Rogez   2668000   
Vadzim Kursevich   1815000   
Paul Guichard   1700000
Andre Corredoira   1316000      
Ignat Liviu   1303000   -117000   
Christian Togsverd   1271000   9   
Chris Brammer   1262000
Artem Litvinov   1193000      
Yorane Kerignard   1124000      
Denis Cheremisin   1117000      
Rumen Nanev   1052000   
Bruno Jais   970000   
Vuong Than Trong   871000      
Rob Stain   816000   176000   
Kevin Vandersmissen   737000      
Mick Graydon   723000   
Etienne Moudaress   650000      
Antonio Guerrero   519000      
Marc Inizan   481000   
Nikolaus Teichert   471000      
Sergey Baburin   438000      
Karim Lehoussine   382000      
Patrick Nataf   360000   



also good luck to ben Vinson, chip leader with 5 left in the high roller

How has Luca Pagano managed to stay as Team Pokerstars player?

They are dropping far better players right, left and centre and Luca hasn't won anything since Tikay didn't have a bus pass.

Yet, like a dog with a well worn bone, he clings on.

Over 20 EPT cashes or similar?


very well connected in Italian Poker, an important market for them...whereas impressions seem to be they are less enthused about the UK in the last 9-12 months

The biggest and richest tournament in all of Europe is on its way back to Monaco. After a one-year hiatus, the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final is returning to Monaco.

As Season 8 of the EPT draws to a close, the EPT will pack its bags April 23-May 1 for the shores of Monaco. Like all EPT events, the festival will include a wide range of tournaments for all buy-in levels from the recreational player to the big-bankrolled professionals. Highlighting it all will be the €10,000 main event.

The PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, to be staged at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino, will cap off another successful season of the EPT. Season 8 has already taken players all over Europe, from London, to Barcelona, to Prague, to San Remo, and to Loutraki, Greece. As players enter the second half of the season, they now know where they'll be ending up for season-ending final.

EPT President Edgar Stuchly said, "This will be the biggest and best EPT festival ever held, and we're putting together an incredible tournament."

For the first time in history, the EPT will host a €100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event on European soil. Running April 23-25, the Super High Roller event should attract the cream of the world's poker crop. It's only been a few weeks since Team PokerStars Pro Viktor Blom took down the Super High Roller at the PCA for more than a million bucks. He's already made plans to show up in Monaco for the High Roller there.

If you happen to be heading in that direction for the tournaments, you can make a full month of it in Monaco. In the weeks before and after the poker festival, Monaco is hosting the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters ATP Tennis (April 13-22), the Monaco Historic Grand Prix (May 11-13) and the famous Grand Prix of Monaco (May 24-27) Formula 1 race.

Pagano leads the field not just in EPT cashes (this is his 20th) or in EPT finals (he's reached six) but also in experience. Since the first ever EPT in Barcelona (in which Pagano finished third) all the way to now, the Team PokerStars Pro has amassed nearly $2 million in live tournament winnings. The next best player in that respect is Marc Inizan of France.

But it has never been about the money, or at least it isn't any more to the poker playing businessman. It's that first EPT title that matters to him, which, after seven and a half seasons of looking, remains difficult to find. It's a point not lost on Pagano but not something keeping him awake at night.

"I won an IPT this summer," said Pagano. "Let's say the drama is over. I will keep trying. It means a lot but it's not going to change my life. I wouldn't change any of my previous results with just one win. I'm happy on the way it went in the past. If it comes in Deauville I'll be happy but if it doesn't happen I'll keep trying next season and for the next 25 seasons."

Pagano, and his Father, basically run the Italian poker industry (I'm sure there is a mafia joke in here somewhere).

Pretty much, yep. His Dad is a perfectly lovely chap, very very likeable, who has been very kind to me, especially back in the day. Luca, I get on just fine with him, too. He wears size 14 shoes, you know.

gl bram!

Ignat Liviu is 0human0 on stars. Hes up over $2million in recorded cash games and thought to be the biggest winner on stars for the past few years.

2nd behind you surely?!?!

:) i just thank god everyday George2loose doesnt play cash!!!

Final table today

Paul Guichard   5955000   
Vadzim Kursevich   5670000      
Olivier Rogez   4415000
Bruno Jais   3450000      
Vuong Than Trong   2570000      
Luca Pagano   2010000   
Yorane Kerignard   1680000      
Mick Graydon   960000   

EPT Live on PokerstarsTV from 12pm CET

1      875,000   
2      557,000   
3      328,000   
4      260,000   
5      200,000   
6      155,000   
7      110,000   
8      67,200

Brammer finished 14th for 30k

Good luck to Big Mick G. I am a massive fan

24-year-old Belarusian Vadzim Kursevich has won the 2012 PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville Main Event.

After a slow start , Kursevich absolutely dominated play in the latter half of the day and despite a change in momentum heads-up, the 2011 WCOOP Main Event finalist and EPT Berlin thrid-place finisher, held on to grab the €875,000 first-place prize and his first EPT title.

The day began with Paul Guichard leading, but Kursevich doubled through him with ace-king versus ace-queen early on to move above the 7 million chip mark and knock Guichard down to size.

A rather wild ride followed for Kursevich, as he spent the next few hours moving up and down the leaderboard as easily the most active player at the final table.

Vuong Than Trong busted Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano to get things started for him, and appeared to be making a run, picking up a number of pots without showdown to move up to the top of the leaderboard.

He then traded several blows with Kursevich as the two became embroiled in a dead heat for the chip lead. Trong picked up kings and picked off Bruno Jais' ace-queen to send him to the rail soon after and take the outright lead. But after a dinner break, everything changed.

Trong four-bet shoved ace-queen into Kursevich's kings to hand Kursevich the biggest pot of the tournament so far and a 2:1 chip lead on the rest of the table. Kursevich busted Yorane Kerignard next to increase that lead and went into heads-up with better than a 6:1 advantage, after sending Trong out third with ace-jack holding against king-ten.

A handicapped Guichard got lucky double up when his jack-high connected against king-high and the Frenchman suddenly stole all the momentum, winning pot after pot until he pulled almost even. But finally, after Guichard flopped a set and Kursevich turned a flush draw and double gutter, all the money went in the middle and Kursevich rivered a straight to end it all.

Congratulations to Vadzim Kursevich, who can now be called an EPT Champion, as the PokerNews crew says au revoir from Deauville.

Here's how the final table finished up:
Place   Player   Prize
1   Vadzim Kursevich   €875,000
2   Paul Guichard   €557,000
3   Vuong Than Trong   €328,000
4   Yorane Kerignard   €260,000
5   Bruno Jais   €200,000
6   Olivier Rogez   €155,000
7   Luca Pagano   €110,000
8   Mick Graydon   € 67,200


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-pokerstars-com-ept-deauville/main-event/