EPT Deauville thread

[TightEnd]

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

[titaniumbean]

Bramtastic. gogogogogooooooo

[mondatoo]

GL Chris, win it all.

[treefella]

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 !

[action man]

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

[TightEnd]

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

[The Camel]

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.

[TightEnd]

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

[TightEnd]

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.

[TightEnd]

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."

[DaveShoelace]

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.

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

[tikay]

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.

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.

[Whollyflush]

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.

[George2Loose]

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?!?!

[Whollyflush]

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!!!