Grand Prix De Paris: Day 1B - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Greetings poker enthusiasts. 

Play for Day 1B starts at 4pm (3pm UK time), and once again, we're expecting a field of around 70 with hopefully a few bigger names.

I can tell you that Freddie Deeb and WPT winner Jon Hennigan have made the trip across the pond, so at least we should experience a little more 'big name' flair for Pool 2. Hopefully they brought a few other American stars along for the ride in order to spice things up.

Either way, Jen (yes she's back after her excellent performance in the Ladies' European Open) and I will be doing our very best to bring you the best coverage on the net.

Please do join us, even if it's just to join in with the banter. It gets lonely over here sometimes. 


If you haven't time for the banter just now - visit the no-pics at-a-glance version:  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23296.0

[b4matt]

Great updates yesterday mate. Just caught up.

Wish Paul all the best for me please, i'll be on later to rail.

[quantify]

good luck to gourlay ................... hope he hasnt got that cr4p jacket on again snoops ,, the one you slagged of in ireland...........................


buy the way it was mineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee;)

[The Sweeney]

Likewise, just caught up.  Excellent updates as always, the best on the web.

[Djinn]

Snoopy clearly doesn't need me using up a precious power outlet and the Wifi, he's doing such a good job, but either way I am fresh off the Eurostar and ready to, if not add to the updates, at least think of some new tangents. 

Our poker table/press work surface was up until literally minutes ago being used for a single table satellite, but just as we got here the short stack was all in with Kings against A-J.  One Ace smacked later and we're up and running.  Snoopy just brings a cloud of dodgy luck wherever he lurks...

Day 1B's players are sat (well, most of them) and gently sweating in the familiar mugginess of the Aviation Club, waiting for the order to Shuffle Up and Deal...

[snoopy1239]

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

[snoopy1239]

Again 90 minute levels and a starting stack of 20,000. No official number or player list as of yet, but we live in hope...

[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.

Stephane Krausz 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...

[dalzini]

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.

I guess that's what the former Lyon and Milan player is doing these days after getting sacked from PSG!!

[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 ...

Pictured below: Sorel Mizzi, confident even before this confrontation gave him a nice chip advantage on his table...

[snoopy1239]

There may not be any WPT cameras here, but there are still a few stars present.

From across the pond, Jason Lester former bracelet winner a WSOP Main Event finalist.

[snoopy1239]

Ram Vaswani, one of Europe's finest tournament players...

[snoopy1239]

Pascal Perrault, regarded as one, if not THE, best player in France. Finished second to Mickey Wernick in the European rankings a couple of years back...

[snoopy1239]

Freddie Deeb, one of the true stars over in America and a regular on Series 1 of High Stakes Poker...