Wednesday, January 26, 2011

BIG NUMBERS SHOW UP AT EPT DEAUVILLE: ISILDUR1, BRUEL IN TOP 12


PHOTO CREDIT: POKERCOACH.fr

We continue with monster fields at Main Events around the whole world! This time, we stop in France for EPT Deauville ... almost 900 runners in this event!!

Amongst the leaders as we head into Day 2 are "the former man of mystery" Viktor Blom (otherwise known as Isildur1) and one of my idols growing up - French singer/actor Patrick Bruel. I was a kid when I found out that Bruel would spend time in Vegas and had won big tournaments - this was the first I had ever heard of poker tournaments ... we're talking in the late 80's, early 90's folks, pre-internet, pre-ESPN airing 400 episodes a year, pre-Rounders, pre-Annette even being born!

Bruel won a bracelet in Limit Hold'em at the 1998 World Series.


Unofficial chip counts available at the end of this post...

The winner of the event will receive 133 PTPR Points.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
EPT Deauville
European Poker Tour Main Event
January 25-31, 2011

Casino Barriere
Deauville, France

Buy-in: $6,690
Prizepool: $5,624,883
Entries: 891

POINTS AT STAKE
1st place 133
2nd place 83
3rd place 53
4th place 43
5th place 38
6th place 33
7th place 33
8th place 18
9th place 18
10th place 18
11th place 18
12th place 16
13th place 16
14th place 16
15th place 16
16th place 13
17th place 13
18th place 13


UNOFFICIAL CHIP COUNTS - NOTABLE PLAYERS (END OF DAY 1A AND 1B)

1 Guillaume de la Gorce 196,800
2 Bruno Launais 185,900
3 Julien Muel 183,100
4 Philippe Massias 175,600
5 Gerome Guitteau 168,600
6 Pedro Mendes Muller 166,300
7 Nicolas Babel 164,100
8 Pierre Calamusa 154,300
9 Patrick Bruel 153,100
10 Chamoun Lioui 147,600
11 Mikael Oestreicher 146,400
12 Viktor Blom 144,700
13 Jose Furtado 143,600
14 Rafal Arendt 142,900
15 Petr Targa 142,800
16 Mathew Ernest Frankland 141,800
17 Sacha Ordeheide 135,900
18 Benjamin Carpenter 129,800
19 Ancil Faiwel Dickstein 128,300
20 Jonas Ferrut 125,700
21 Eric Gambararo 125,400
22 Patrice Poujade 125,000
23 Basil Yaiche 124,100
24 Cyril Hanouna 120,800
25 Jerome Zerbib 119,900

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