Niveau: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Niveau: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The last short 20 minute break of the day has just begun. After Level 10 will be the dinner break.
The next 20 minute break is about 5 minutes away. The tournament director announced that the 25 denomination chips will be removed from play before Level 9 begins with blinds at 400/800 and an ante of 100.
Winamax VIP and footballer Bernard Mendy appeared all but out of the tournament. With a short-stack of around 10,000 chips, Mendy got it all in with and was well behind his opponent's . Things looked worse for Mendy when there was no ace on the flop of . The on the turn added four more outs with a gutshot straight draw. The completed the straight giving Mendy some hope.
Team Winamax players Pierre Calamusa (100,000 chips) and Alexandre Luneau (45,000 chips) appear to be also holding their own today on separate tables, while Leo Margets (25,000 chips) is also still alive to make Day 2.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Pierre Calamusa |
100,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
||
Alexandre Luneau |
45,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Leo Margets |
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
||
Bernard Mendy
|
21,500
14,500
|
14,500 |
With 415 players today, not only is today's Day 1c bigger than last year's, the field for the entire Main Event is as well. So far we have 888 entrants or 16 more than last year's 872. Late registration is still open for another 25 minutes, so we should expect the final entry count for the tournament to get slightly bigger.
With blinds at 250/500 and an ante of 50, Gaëlle Baumann opens from late position with . The button and small blind both call creating a pot of around 4,000 heading into the flop.
The appear on the flop giving Baumann two over cards and a nut-flush draw. She leads out for 2,500, the player from the button calls with the third player check-folding.
The on the turn is of no help to Baumann, however, she keeps the aggression on betting 5,500. Her opponent raised to 14,500 which she called. The river didn't help either player with both checking. Baumann was down to about 12,000 chips after he opponent showed top-pair with .
Shortly afterwards, Baumann doubled up to around 25,000 after she got it all-in with which help against her opponents .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Gaëlle Baumann
|
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Niveau: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
For the past few days, Mathieu Bouthier has been busy working at the pool getting the masses to dance. It appears this is behind him, as he is now in the field sitting at a table with Guillaume Darcourt.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Guillaume Darcourt |
50,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
Mathieu Bouthier
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
The Day 1c field has passed 400 entrants. It should be close to see whether the 411 mark from last year will beat with a little more than an hour left in the late registration period.
Here is a look at chip counts from some of the more notable players in the Day 1c field as of last break.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Quang Dai Le
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Pierre Calamusa |
73,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
||
Sylvain Loosli |
65,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
Saber Harrazi |
59,000
59,000
|
59,000 |
Matthieu Laurent |
51,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
Anas Tadini |
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Guillaume Darcourt |
45,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
||
Flavien Guenan |
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Timothée Marlin
|
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
Romain Chauvassagne |
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Aurélie Quélain
|
35,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Sylvain Roullet |
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Leo Margets |
30,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
||
Benjamin Nicault
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Ludovic Riehl |
23,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Davidi Kitai |
20,000
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
||
Brian Benhamou |
14,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Joel Benzinou |
11,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Ivan Deyra |
9,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
Bernard Mendy
|
7,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |