Grand Prix De Paris: Day 2 - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Well, Ramzi Jelassi posted above, and someone has already donked off his table, Mats Iremark in fact, his failing to outdraw Eric Koskas's , the board bringing down an emphatic which led to the Swede exiting before the turn of the River.

84 down to 83.

[Djinn]

Flurry of early action - Pascal Perrault moves in on the cutoff with and the short stacked big blind, Yuri Kerzhapkin, calls with . 
Flop: 
Turn:    (and we're probably all thinking it now, I just can't help it any more, unhealthy though it is)...
River:      Double through for straightened Yuri, and everyone's opinion on live poker is confirmed. 

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Well, Britian may not have invaded with the World's biggest army, but we're fairing well, Day 1 seemingly a piece of cake for the homegrown crew.

Of course, our biggest threat made the cut, Mr Dave Colclough, looking Burns-like as ever...

[Djinn]

As mentioned earlier by Mr. Gourlay:  Table Gourlay In Pictures -

David Redlin, Alexander Kuzmin, Jeffrey Lisandro
Mark Teltscher, Ryad Abour, Turgut Guner
Freddy Deeb, Mad Derwich, Paul Gourlay

Noel Gaens doesn't appear to be there...either an early mover or an early exit...

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Of course, equally capable of taking this one down is the Brummie Pimp, Mark 'MrCool' Goodwin, hoping to perform a shortstack miracle after being down to 3k near the end of Day 1A.

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And let's not forget Mr Elton John himself, Paul 'Tiny Dancer' Gourlay.

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Sometimes forgotten but always a danger is John 'Large' Kabbaj, often regarding as one of our most underrated players.

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Lacking the usual flashy attire and so in seemingly serious mood is Peter Gould.

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Last AND least (just kidding) is London residing Brian Johnson, fresh off being stolen from across the pond in true Greg Rusedski manner.

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Guillaume Darcourt is OUT.

Raised to 2k with Jacks, Alain Layani re-raised to 8k with Kings, Guillaume pushed for 17k total and Alain, of course, called, although Ramzi pretended he dwelt up as he was retelling the tale.

No help arrived.

[snoopy1239]

And let's not forget Mr Elton John himself, Paul 'Tiny Dancer' Gourlay.

And here's another shot of Paul with his new shades.

[Djinn]

A big pot builds up preflop between Pier Paolo Ruscalla and Eric Larcheveque (pictured below)... 30k is in there already as button Eric thinks about calling PPR's pre-flop re-raise all-in, at least another 20something000.  Eventually he passes - you can see the resulting look the loser gives the stacker - "You used to be in my stack, yellow chips..."

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Marc Goodwin is OUT, leaving without a parting thought.

Oh, except for the phrase, "The French are f-ing muppets, and you can quote me on that." I don't think I will though... oh, oops. 

Probably not the best of places to make that observation with an exclamation, but although a slight generalistation, it's hard not to sympathise.

Under the gun, Marc made it 2.1k to play with only for his French ami (or en-ami) to raise another 4k. Marc pushed for 23k and Frenchieboy made an incredible call with J-To, leaving himself with just 2k behind.

Of course, the A-Q went bust, to a salt-in-wound-rubbing full house, leaving MrCool with a somewhat bitter taste in his mouth.

Bad news for MrCool, but great news for the nearest bar.

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Remi Biechel is OUT.

Down to 7k, Remi pushed all-in with , but was picked off by which caught two emphatic Aces.

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Pascal Perrault and his technicoloured dreamshirt is OUT, crushed by a Tens vs. Fives on a 7-A-2-4-3 board (ouch!) before moving his shortstack in with the next half decent hand, but running into Aces. Not a good day at the office.