Grand Prix De Paris: Day 1B - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Play starts at 4pm (3pm UK time).

Already spotted:

Mark Teltscher
Steve Zolotow
Sorel Mizzi
Jason Lester
Paul Gourlay
Mats Iremark
Ram Vaswani
Peter Gould
Pascal Perrault
Daniel Smits Bertelson
Jan Boubli

For interactive coverage, with the addition of pictures click:  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23297.0

[snoopy1239]

Incredibly (well, not so over here I guess), we've had an all-in already, the two players pictured below somehow doing battle in a 30k+ pot.

I joined the action with the board reading and a chunk of chips scattered in the middle, plenty of yellow thousands too.

Runasson Runar was all-in for 7,500 and the decision was down to the other chappy, Vikash Dhorasso, who didn't look too confident at all.

As expected, he folded, but it's quite remarkable to see such action at such and early stage.

[Djinn]

Hope fulfilled - a list has arrived, and today it's my pleasure to type it in for you:

Table 5

Carlos Da Silva
Michel Cohen
Mark Teltscher
Alain Layani
Adolfo Vaeza
Herve Schoukroun
Yuri Kerzhapkin
Xavier Detournel
Eric Larcheveque

Table 6

Noel Gleans
Jason Lester
Guillaume Delta Gorce
Steve Zolotow
Patrick Schull
Sorel Mizzi
Henri Boutboul
Remy Biechel

Table 7

Clement Amagat
Farouk Bensalem
Benjamin Scampini
Karim Massoud
Christophe Cabras
Ray Coburn
Guillaume Darcourt
Antoine Chuzeville
Leo Poly

Table 8

Ramzi Jelassi
Runar Runarsson
Szawomir Rypiniski
Mats Iremark
Stephane Lering
Peter Gould
Paul Gourlay
E. Sfez
Patrick Bueno

Table 9

Eric Koskas
Stephane Krausz
Vivian Anseline
Karsten Johansen
Vikash Dhorasso
JB Bot
Pascal Perrault
Alexandre Broca
Jonathan Fhal

Table 10

Ahmed Debabeche
John Hennigan
Patric Martensson
V. Troyanovskiy
Erik Cajelais
Daniel Bertelsen
Jan Boubli
Nikolas Liakos
Peter Politis

Table 11

Jeff Wallace
Matthias Poppel
Carson Russell
Jean Paul Pasqualini
Adrien Gavile
Ram Vaswani
Remi Marrale
H. Kakoun
Will Ma

Table 12

David Redlin
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Freddy Deeb
James Witkowski
Didier Pitchot
Massaah Kagawa
Georges Teboul
Imad Derwich
Fabrice Toil

There are odd spellings aplenty (e.g. Marc Teltschir) so please be lenient if we get your friends' names wrong...

[Djinn]

Thanks to Benjo for spotting this one - it's pretty good - Sorel Mizzi (who seems to be everywhere nowadays) against Fabrice Thuil... They see a flop which Fabrice check-raises... Sorel calls.  The turn and river are , so this is what gets the of Fabrice interested in paying off Sorel's ahead-all-the-way ...

[Djinn]

Reasonably big pot attracts the journalists (of whom there are just a handful, for a change) like big note-taking moths:

On the turn V. Troyanovskiy dwells after being check-raised to 3,100 by Nikolas Liakos (pictured, the one with cards in front of him) with the board standing .  Eventually he calls.  The river is the .  Nikolas checks, and there follows a very lengthy dwell from his in-position opponent, who eventually decides not to bet, effectively giving it up to Nikolas' .

[Djinn]

Yesterday's full chip counts, written up with special attention by Rolf Slotboom, and pinched with equal care by me:

   1. Ryad Abour 71,750
   2. Nikolai Evdakov 70,550
   3. Alexander Kuzmin 64,200
   4. Samir Shakhtoor 63,100
   5. Atanas Gueorguieu 62,250
   6. Kirill Rabtsov 61,175
   7. Gilbert Chahine 61,050
   8. Nasrodin Pirmamod 58,475
   9. Janne Lamsa 56,200
  10. Antoine Nouel 47,550
  11. Michel Akrich 46,465
  12. Csaba Kuremszki 45,350
  13. Paul Testud 43,300
  14. Istuan Pelyhe 42,225
  15. Nichlas Saarisilta 39,600
  16. Tor Gammelgard 35,350
  17. Jeff Lisandro 35,325
  18. John Kabbaj 35,075
  19. Brian Johnson 34,850
  20. Pier Paolo Ruscalla 34,775
  21. Alaksandr Dzianisau 34,675
  22. Wasek Lukasz 29,975
  23. Brad Libson 29,725
  24. Jason Lee 28,700
  25. Thomas Belleuvre 23,475
  26. Otto Richard 22,500
  27. Daniel Donnabedian 22,325
  28. Dave Colclough 21,925
  29. Pascal Barrau 21,100
  30. Marc Goodwin 21,050
  31. Philippe Narboni 16,875
  32. Johan Storakers 15,950
  33. Mads Andersen 14,150
  34. Francois Demoly 13,850
  35. Nikolai Losev 8,975
  36. Walid Bouhabib 7,700
  37. Turgut Guner 7,200
  38. Elie Marciano 6,500
  39. Stephane Gouverneur 6,200

[snoopy1239]

Down to 69, which means we've lost our first player of the day, and that unfortunate man is...

Stephane Krausz 

The opponent sending him to an early bath appears to be Vikash Dhorasso, as he now has just under 35k in front of him.

[snoopy1239]

Mark Teltscher -- 18,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 31.075
Jason Lester -- 20,375
Ramzi Jelassi -- 19,925
Paul Gourlay -- 19,875
Peter Gould -- 24,225
Ram Vaswani -- 18,200
Pascal Perrault -- 20,125
Patric Martensson -- 21,350

[Djinn]

Down to 68, and judging from the empty seat formerly occupied by V. Troyanovskiy, and the mountain of chips in front of Peter Politis he must have met his demise in the last ten minutes.  Peter's stack:  42,500, and the blinds are still only 50/100.  That's 425 big blinds he has there.

[Djinn]

With one minute left of this level, I thought I'd get out of the way before they all head out to the bar etc.  This means that I only had time to count two tables this level, so preoccupied was I with photoshopping Snoopy etc.  Sorry.

Here are two, anyway:

Table 5

Carlos Da Silva           19.650
Michel Cohen            15,925
Mark Teltscher          16,325
Alain Layani               19,100
Adolfo Vaeza             20,325
Herve Schoukroun     17,800
Yuri Kerzhapkin          24,700
Xavier Detournel        18,650
Eric Larcheveque       22,000

Table 6

Noel Gleans              33,800
Jason Lester             18,100
Guillaume Delta Gorce  15,600
Steve Zolotow           22,250
Patrick Schull             22,500
Sorel Mizzi                 29,775
Henri Boutboul          12,600
Remy Biechel            1,950
Fabrice Touil              20,575

[snoopy1239]

Alexandre Broca is gone, which means that we're down to 67 with blinds of 100/200.

[snoopy1239]

Guillaume Darcourt has just eliminated Benjamin Scampini, vs. on a Flop.

The heart-unfriendy 4 Turn and 3 River were of no use and Benjamin was understandably gutted.

[Djinn]

More chip counts:

Table 7

Clement Amagat      27,650
Farouk Bensalem      19,325
Benjamin Scampini    14,175
Karim Massoud         17,775
Christophe Cabras     33,600
Ray Coburn              19,450
Guillaume Darcourt    20,500
Antoine Chuzeville     23,050
Leo Poly                    ?  Missing presumed OUT

Table 8

Ramzi Jelassi             17,775
Runar Runarsson       29,250
Szawomir Rypiniski     12,175
Mats Iremark            12,900
Stephane Lering       20,000
Peter Gould             27,500
Paul Gourlay             19,800
E. Sfez                    14,600
Patrick Bueno           30,100

Table 9

Eric Koskas               38,900
Peter Politis              51,000
Vivian Anseline          26,700
Karsten Johansen      15,700
Vikash Dhorasso         36,800
JB Bot                      9,750
Pascal Perrault           36,950
Alexandre Broca         OUT
Jonathan Fhal             8,075

Table 12

David Redlin                   22,900
Yevgeniy Timoshenko      10,200
Freddy Deeb                  39,800
James Witkowski             8,800
Didier Pitchot                  25,775
Masaki Kagawa                14,900
Georges Teboul              23,650
Imad Derwich                 16,500

[snoopy1239]

Fabrice Touil is OUT.

All-in pre-flop with vs. Guillaume Delta Gorce's .

Board =

[Djinn]

And the rest of the counts;

Table 10     - they were just breaking this table as I hovered around - getting in everyone's way until I gave up.  '?' means 'No count,' not 'Out.'

Ahmed Debabeche    16,350
John Hennigan           20,200
Patric Martensson            ?
V. Troyanovskiy           OUT
Erik Cajelais                  ?
Daniel Bertelsen         17,150
Jan Boubli                    ?
Nikolas Liakos               12,800

Table 11

Jeff Wallace            17,300
Matthias Poppel       20,625
Carson Russell           22,000
Jean Paul Pasqualini   23,450
Adrien Gavile            24,400
Ram Vaswani             9,700
Remi Marrale             33,000
H. Kakoun                9,550
Will Ma                      Not there