EPT DEAUVILLE: SULTAN CLOSES OUT DEAUVILLE

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That's it, another successful PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville is behind us!

We close out EPT Deauville with a look at the 1K France Poker Series Event...


Ludovic Sultan had a little over 40K in live tournament winnings heading into the 1K tourney. Sultan can now add a cool, crisp, 82K Euro after his victory.

Sultan defeated Joep Van Den Bijgaart heads up. Van Den Bijgaart (2011 PTPR Rank: 405th) won a Master Classics of Poker Side Event last season.

Yury Gulyy (2011 PTPR Rank: 2703rd) picked up his second set of points at Deauville while Raymond Santucci (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th) earned his first PTPR Points of 2012 - Santucci won the Partouche Poker Tour Nice Main Event last season.

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (in EURO) Ludovic Sultan FRA € 82,000 Joep Van den Bijgaart NED € 43,500 Yury Gulyy RUS € 28,000 Raymond Santucci FRA € 21,500 Aliaksei Vesialou BLR € 17,000 Artem Metalidi UKR € 14,000 Andrey Veselov RUS € 10,700 Omar Karib FRA € 7,500 Sebastien Decamps FRA € 5,700 Jiachen Gong CAN € 5,700 RELATED POSTS >> GOOD START FOR VISSER >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL BACK AT IT >> DE MEULDER WINS TURBO NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH High Rollers February 4, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $1,455 | Prizepool: $418,520 Entries: 329 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION LUDOVIC SULTAN 75 JOEP VAN DEN BIJGAART 40 YURY GULYY 25 RAYMOND SANTUCCI 15 ALIAKSEI VESIALOU 10 ARTEM METALIDI 8 ANDREY VESELOV 5 OMAR KARIB 5 SEBASTIEN DECAMPS 5

EPT DEAUVILLE: GOOD START TO THE YEAR CONTINUES FOR VISSER

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It's been a good start to 2012 for Ruben Visser. Visser has accumulated over 400K in winnings in the first few weeks of the poker season. After finishing eighth at the PCA Main Event, Visser collected the win here in Deauville last week - in the 1K NLH Random Bounty Event.

Now Visser just picked up a huge chunk of change finishing second in the PokerStars.fr 10K NLH High Rollers Event. That cash out puts Visser (2011 PTPR Rank: 2090th) over the 1M mark for live tournament cashes on his career - very impressive!

The winner of the event was Eric Sfez (2011 PTPR Rank: NR). Sfez picked up the first win of his live tournament poker career - his first live cash dating back to 2005.

Samuel Chartier earned his second PTPR Score in as many days. Chartier (2011 PTPR Rank: 106th) now has 33 PTPR Points on the season, he finished 2011 with 141.

Finally, Mikhail Lakhitov also collected PTPR Points in this event. Lakhitov (2011 PTPR Rank: 52nd) won a braclet last summer in WSOP Event 36 - No Limit Holdem.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (in EURO) Eric Sfez, France € 242,000 Ruben Visser, Netherlands € 152,000 David Sonelin, Sweden € 90,000 Sam Chartier, Canada € 65,600 Ami Alibay, Canada € 48,400 Christophe Benzimra, France € 34,500 Mikhail Lakhitov, Russia € 31,100 Paul Berende, Netherlands € 27,600 RELATED POSTS >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL BACK AT IT >> DE MEULDER WINS TURBO DEFENDING CHAMPION Jonathan Duhamel (2011 PTPR Rank: 71st) NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH High Rollers February 4, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $13,645 | Prizepool: $915,700 Entries: 72 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ERIC SFEZ 100 RUBEN VISSER 60 DAVID SONELIN 35 SAMUEL CHARTIER 25 AMI ALIBAY 18 CHRISTOPHE BENZIMRA 10 MIKHAIL LAKHITOV 8 PAUL BERENDE 5

EPT DEAUVILLE: DE MEULDER WINS DE TURBO

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Matthias de Meulder wins the 1.5K NLH Turbo Event at the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville.

de Meulder (2011 PTPR Rank: 1483rd) had a deep run at EPT Barcelona last season. de Meulder defeated 377 other participants to win the second event of his live tournament poker career - he first won in 2009; winning the Main Event at the Mini WSOP in Ireland that November.

Canada's Samuel Chartier finished sixth in the event. Chartier (2011 PTPR Rank: 106th) already had a bunch of points at this point last season, he had won the PLO 8-Max Championship at the PCA a month earlier. See Chartier in next post as he posted another score at Deauville.

Christian Tardea (2011 PTPR Rank: 1843rd), Yury Gulyy (2011 PTPR Rank: 2703rd) and Viacheslav Igin (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th) also collected points in the event.

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FINAL NINE PAYOUTS (in EURO) Matthias de Meulder, Belgium € 136,000 Michel Kirchner, France € 73,000 Dimitry Shchepkin, Russia € 45,700 Christian Tardea, Romania € 36,500 Craig McCorkell, UK € 28,850 Samuel Chartier, Canada € 23,400 Salvatore Crapanzano, Belgium € 17,950 Yury Gulyy, Russia € 12,500 Viacheslav Igin, Russia € 9,800 RELATED POSTS >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL BACK AT IT NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH 1.5K Turbo February 2-3, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $2,185 | Prizepool: $721,115 Entries: 378 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION MATTHIAS DE MEULDER 75 MICHAEL KIRCHNER 40 DIMITRY SHCHEPKIN 25 CHRISTIAN TARDEA 15 CRAIG MCCORKELL 10 SAMUEL CHARTIER 8 SALVATORE CRAPAZANO 5 YURY GULYY 5 VIACHESLAV IGIN 5

EPT DEAUVILLE: DUHAMEL BACK AT IT, COLLECTS FOURTH SCORE OF 2012!

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What do you do when you just had a great month of January on the poker circuit? You get right back at it in February.

That's what our #1 ranked PTPR Player decided to do. 2010 WSOP World Champion Jonathan Duhamel has been white hot to start the poker season - and he's continued that streak by finishing eighth in the Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville 2K NLH Side Event over the weekend.

Duhamel (2011 PTPR Rank: 71st) has collected a total of nine PTPR Scores in a little over a year - he's already one off his five earned in 2011 - it certainly looks like Duhamel is here to stay, proving that his 2010 Main Event title was no fluke.

Ukrainian Roman Romanovsky won the event, defeating the UK's Ben Vinson (2011 PTPR Rank: 1748th) heads up.

Tome Moreira (2011 PTPR Rank: 1901st), 2011 Mazagan Deepstack Winner Jean-Paul Pierre Pasqualini (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th), Andrey Danilyuk (2011 PTPR Rank: 304th) (who finished in the Top 5 at the 2011 EPT Grand Final) and Mohamed Aissani (2011 PTPR Rank: 2090th) were other notables at the final table.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in EURO) Roman Romanovsky € 144,300 Ben Vinson € 77,700 Paul Chapelle € 50,000 Tome Moreira € 38,800 Cesar Garcia Dominguez € 30,500 Jean Pasqualini € 25,000 Andrey Danilyuk € 19,400 Jonathan Duhamel € 13,900 Mohamed Aissani € 10,500 RELATED POSTS >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL SECOND AT PCA HR >> DUHAMEL DOMINATES PCA SIDE >> DUHAMEL WINS DEAUVILLE HR DEFENDING CHAMPION Ronan Collet, (2011 PTPR Rank: 269th) NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH 2K Side Event February 3-4, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $2,885 | Prizepool: $727,945 Entries: 289 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ROMAN ROMANOVSKY 75 BEN VINSON 40 PAUL CHAPELLE 25 TOME MOREIRA 15 CESAR GARCIA DOMINGUEZ 10 JEAN-PAUL PIERRE PASQUALINI "JEAN" 8 ANDREY DANILYUK 5 JONATHAN DUHAMEL 5 MOHAMED AISSANI 5

EPT DEAUVILLE: KURSEVICH WINS BIG IN DEAUVILLE MAIN EVENT

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It looks like Vadzim Kursevich got himself an early birthday present on Monday. Turning 25 on Wednesday, Kursevich collected the first title of his young poker career on the circuit - along with cashing in a monster €875,000 paycheque, happy birthday, Vadzim!

Kursevich (2011 PTPR Rank: 259th) enjoyed some success in 2011 but, despite (2) third place finishes good for a combined +500K US, he had not been able to pickup that first major victory - that all changed for the Belarsian on Monday.

It was yet another EPT Final Table for Luca Pagano. But, what looked like a tournament for him and only him to win a few days ago, slipped out of his hands during Sunday's play - and Pagano (2011 PTPR Rank: 201st) was unable to get things done during final table play. Pagano finished seventh in the event.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in EURO) 1- Vadzim Kursevich, € 875,000 2- Paul Gichard, € 557,000 3- Vuong Than Throng, € 328,000 4- Yorane Kerignard, € 260,000 5- Bruno Jais, € 200,000 6- Olivier Rogez, € 155,000 7- Luca Pagano, € 110,000 8- Mick Graydon, € 67,200 RELATED POSTS >> GUICHARD TOP FT STACK >> PAGANO IN CONTROL >> ADENIYA LEADS AFTER DAY 2 >> COHEN WINS DEAUVILLE >> DUHAMEL WINS DEAUVILLE HR >> KOOL SHEN WINS EFOP DIAMOND >> KANIT WINS IPT NOVA GORICA >> DEMPSEY CLAWS WAY TO WPT TITLE DEFENDING CHAMPION Lucien Cohen, (2011 PTPR Rank: 80th) NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH Main Event January 31-February 6, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $6,960 | Prizepool: $5,605,390 Entries: 889 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION VADZIM KURSEVICH 133 PAUL GUICHARD 83 VUONG THAN TRONG 53 YORANE KERIGNARD 43 BRUNO JAIS 38 OLIVIER ROGEZ 33 LUCA PAGANO 33 MICK GRAYDON 18 SERGEY BABURIN 18 ETIENNE MOUDARESSS 18 NIKOLAUS TEICHERT 18 IGNAT LIVIU 16 ROBERT STAIN "ROB" 16 CHRIS BRAMMER 16 DENIS CHEREMISIN 16 ARTEM LITVINOV 13 CHRISTIAN TOGSVERD 13 RUMEN NANEV 13

EPT DEAUVILLE: GICHARD, KURSEVICH ATOP FINAL TABLE CHIP COUNTS

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We have reached the final table at the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville Main Event.

PokerStars online qualifier Paul Gichard leads the Final 8 but Belarus pro Vadzim Kursevich is right behind him. Add to the fact that Kursevich (2011 PTPR Rank: 259th) has deep run experience on the circuit with three of them in 2011 alone, and the Belarusian looks to be the odds on favourite to take this down.

The chip leader coming into Sunday's play was Italian pro Luca Pagano. The defending IPT San Remo Champion, Pagano (2011 PTPR Rank: 201st) had a tough go at it on Sunday and now finds himself sixth in chips, but, we would not count Pagano out just yet.

Frenchman Yorane Kerignard is one of the short stacks at the table. Kerignard (2011 PTPR Rank: 569th) had deep runs at a EPT Madrid Side Event and at EPT San Remo.

FINAL TABLE CHIP STACKS
Paul Guichard, France 5,955,000
Vadzim Kursevich, Belarus 5,670,000
Olivier Rogez, France 4,415,000
Bruno Jais, France 3,450,000
Vuong Than Trong, France 2,570,000
Luca Pagano, Italy 2,010,000
Yorane Kerignard, France 1,680,000
Mick Graydon, 960,000

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in EURO) 1- € 875,000 2- € 557,000 3- € 328,000 4- € 260,000 5- € 200,000 6- € 155,000 7- € 110,000 8- € 67,200 RELATED POSTS >> PAGANO IN CONTROL >> ADENIYA LEADS AFTER DAY 2 >> COHEN WINS DEAUVILLE >> DUHAMEL WINS DEAUVILLE HIGH ROLLERS >> KOOL SHEN WINS EFOP DIAMOND >> KANIT WINS IPT NOVA GORICA >> DEMPSEY CLAWS WAY TO WPT TITLE LIVE EVENT COVERAGE POKERSTARS.TV DEFENDING CHAMPION Lucien Cohen, (2011 PTPR Rank: 80th) NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH Main Event January 31-February 6, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $6,960 | Prizepool: $5,605,390 Entries: 889 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 133 2nd place 83 3rd place 53 4th place 43 5th place 38 6-7th place 33 8th place 18 SERGEY BABURIN 18 ETIENNE MOUDARESSS 18 NIKOLAUS TEICHERT 18 IGNAT LIVIU 16 ROBERT STAIN "ROB" 16 CHRIS BRAMMER 16 DENIS CHEREMISIN 16 ARTEM LITVINOV 13 CHRISTIAN TOGSVERD 13 RUMEN NANEV 13

EPT DEAUVILLE: PAGANO IN CONTROL OF TOP 24

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Luca Pagano leads the charge as the Final 24 is set in Deauville. The 2011 IPT San Remo Champion gained control of the chip during the day and he looked unbeatable during some stretches on Saturday.



Pagano (2011 PTPR Rank: 201st) enters Day 5 play with almost 1M more chips than his second place opponent.

Well known poker professional Kevin Vandersmissen had two second place finishes on the circuit in 2011. Vandersmissen (2011 PTPR Rank: 162nd) is looking for his first title since December 2010.

Frenchman Marc Inizan is currently 20th in chips and will be looking to add to his stack early on Sunday. Inizan (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th) finished third in the France Poker Series High Roller Event last February.

FINAL 24 CHIP COUNTS
Luca Pagano Italy 3,561,000
Olivier Rogez France 2,668,000
Vadzim Kursevich Belarus 1,815,000
Paul Guichard France 1,700,000
Andre Corredoira Spain 1,310,000
Ignat Liviu Romania 1,303,000
Christian Togsverd Denmark 1,271,000
Christopher Brammer UK 1,262,000
Artem Litvinov Russia 1,193,000
Yorane Kerignard France 1,124,000
Denis Cheremisin Russia 1,117,000
Rumen Nanev Bulgaria 1,052,000
Bruno Jais France 970,000
Vuong Than Trong France 871,000
Rob Stain UK 816,000
Kevin Vandersmissen Belgium 737,000
Mick Graydon Ireland 723,000
Etienne Moudaress France 650,000
Antonio Guerrero France 519,000
Marc Inizan France 481,000
Nikolaus Teichert Germany 471,000
Sergey Baburin Russia 438,000
Karim Lehoussine France 382,000
Patrick Nataf France 360,000

NOTABLE DAY 4 ELIMINATIONS
Mikhail Lakhitov, Jason Hallee, Martins Adeniya, Andre Andrade.

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TOP 24 PAYOUTS (in EURO) 1- € 875,000 2- € 557,000 3- € 328,000 4- € 260,000 5- € 200,000 6- € 155,000 7- € 110,000 8- € 67,200 9-10- € 50,000 11-12- € 37,500 13-14- € 30,000 15-16- € 26,000 17-24- € 23,000 RELATED POSTS >> ADENIYA LEADS AFTER DAY 2 >> COHEN WINS DEAUVILLE >> DUHAMEL WINS DEAUVILLE HIGH ROLLERS >> KOOL SHEN WINS EFOP DIAMOND >> KANIT WINS IPT NOVA GORICA >> DEMPSEY CLAWS WAY TO WPT TITLE EVENT COVERAGE POKERSTARS BLOG

PTPR PREMIER EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH Main Event January 31-February 6, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $6,960 | Prizepool: $5,605,390 Entries: 889 DEFENDING CHAMPION Lucien Cohen, (2011 PTPR Rank: 80th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 133 2nd place 83 3rd place 53 4th place 43 5th place 38 6-7th place 33 8-11th place 18 12-15th place 16 16-18th place 13 NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen Main Event: February 20-25, 2012