Beyond the early eliminations, it's difficult to seek out really significant action during Day 1. Age old poker cliche provide you with a warning: can't wwithin the tournament in the opening stages, you'll only lose it.
Thankfully, EPT festivals in this day and age never start and end with the principle Event and there'll likely be no less than two other tournaments playing through a more significant phase on any given day.
Here in Deauville, the 2 flagship events of the France Poker Series (FPS) have both reached their business end - the £2,000 FPS High Roller event and £1,000 Main Event were both as a result of finish today.
That's fine for one and hard for the opposite. The principle Event has just wrapped, with the Dutch player Niels Van Leeuwen emerging triumphant. However the High Roller still has 11 players across two tables, and lots of of them with some mighty stacks. It might easily last another ten hours.
The "problem" is how popular these events have now become. They're the victims in their own success. High Roller tournaments will always attract fewer entrants than Main Events, but if 303 people happen for a tournament scheduled to last two days, you will always run into trouble.
Such was the case for this High Roller: quite a lot of top names arrived early to EPT Deauville and played the FPS High Roller as if it was an extremely juicy side event. After a lengthy opening day, there have been still 56 of them involved when it resumed today, including ElkY, Bruno Fitoussi, Michael Tureniec and Dario Sammartino.
We will likely must wait until tomorrow to find who emerged triumphant and took the €131,000 first prize. Or even then, the strong likelihood is that that there'll was a deal.
Back, though, to the FPS Main Event, which also boasted a huge field. Indeed, it was greater than thrice the scale of the High Roller, with 1,095 players and a primary prize of €175,000.
It was a largely local affair, befitting a neighborhood series, and the general table boasted seven Frenchmen surrounding Van Leeuwen. The 2 chip leaders were from within about 20 miles of Deauville: Christophe Leroux from neighbouring Trouville and Jean-Paul Vasseur from a town called Louviers.
Leroux went out in fifth, earning €45,000, but Vasseur was the overall French hope when he went heads up with Van Leeuwen. However despite a rail of greater than 40 people cheering him on (that may be about ten times the number that watched the overall stages of the PCA), Van Leeuwen prevailed and took the title back to the Netherlands.
A full wrap, in French, will appear on PokerStars Blog's French wing. But here's the result:
FPS Main EventBuy-in: €1,100Players: 1,095
1 - Niels van Leeuwen - €175,0002 - Jean-Paul Vasseur - €115,0003 - Yehoram Houri - €82,1004 - Corentin Ropert - €60,1005 - Christophe Leroux - €45,0006 - Erwann pecheux - €33,0007 - Mathieu Mariani - €25,0008 - Fahd Kaabat - €21,580
Follow our coverage from EPT Deauville by heading to the primary EPT Deauville page. There's hand-by-hand coverage within the top panel, plus chip counts, and have pieces below.
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