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EPT Deauville High Roller: Day 2 under way, Kevin Vandersmissen leads
The €10,000 High Roller has resumed and with all entries and rebuys measured close to one million Euros has been collected (a prize pool will be put online when it gets released). EPT Snowfest...
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EPT9 Deauville High Roller: Life on the other side of the tracks
The EPT tournament room in Deauville today was split down the middle with almost perfect symmetry. On the one side were the excitable, unreliable pretenders of the €5,000 Main Event, attempting...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 5: Unstoppable Remi Castaignon takes massive lead into final
If it's ever appropriate to say that this might not have been the final table line up we were expecting, now might be the time to say it. Of the 23 players who returned to the Casino Deauville this...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: The main event finalists
The field of 782 is now down to a final eight, competing for a first prize of €770,000 today. It will bring to an end a week-long main event that started last Sunday at Casino Deauville and which will...
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EPT9 Deauville: Michel Leibgorin wins the €1k PLO for €20,815
Michel Leibgorin has been grinding longer than some of you have been alive: the Frenchman's maiden recorded cash was back in 1995. Leibgorin's 18-year poker career (it's quite possibly longer) peaked...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: Where have these jokers come from?
On final table day of any EPT tournament, we are often asked: "Who the hell are these jokers?" I tend to reply, "Stephen Bartley and Rick Dacey," until the inquisitor clarifies their question and...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: Jeffrey Hakim's run ends in eighth place
A lot of people watching will consider the departure of Jeffrey Hakim from the final table a big loss to the quality of the field. Hakim was out of the main event within the first few minutes of play...
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EPT9 Deauville: Introducing The EPT Quote Board
Over breakfast this morning (two boiled eggs, large coffee, several French pastries) the PokerStars Blog team discussed how much flavour of an event is lost due to great quotes having no home in an...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: Country-by-country, day-by-day
Whoever from our final four wins EPT9 Deauville this week, there can be little doubt which two countries can rejoice their nation's performances most jubilantly. Our hosts France demonstrated the...
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Women of the Women's Sunday: Final Table Regulars
Each week, more than 200 players come together for the $55 Women's Sunday tournament on PokerStars. Its $10K guarantee is certainly a draw, as is the $50 bounty on any member of Team PokerStars Pro....
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EPT9 Deauville: Tim Reilly heads-up for the High Roller and gaining respect
Tim Reilly wasn't a known face on the European Poker Tour before the start of EPT Deauville but, after some fine performances on the EPTLive webcast and the small matter of being heads-up in the...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: Long may this place stay the same
In a few hours all this will be over. The poker tables will be packed up, the players will make their way to the station to catch trains or to Paris to connect with flights home, and the European Poker...
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EPT9 Deauville High Roller: Vojtech Ruzicka makes good on potential, bests...
When six players returned to play down to a winner of the €10,300 High Roller event today, the two biggest stacks were known predominantly for their great aptitude at finishing second. Martin Jacobson...
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EPT9 Deauville: Benjamin Juhasz takes down the €2k to book a €57,800 win
Every stop on the EPT is jam-packed full of events and sometimes chunky scores can sail by almost without notice. Just take a look at Benjamin Juhasz who notched up the first win of his live poker...
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EPT9 Deauville: Alexander Dovzhenko gets the trophy and €5,600 in the €330 turbo
lexander Dovzhenko turbo'd his way through the €330 to win €5,600, a lovely return on investment for a very quick event and a nice top up to the €19,000 he won for his 26th place finish in the Main...
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EPT9 Deauville Day 6: A tale of two pocket pairs as Remi Castaignon enjoys...
An enormous chip lead coming into an EPT final table can be both a blessing and a burden. It brings with it great responsibility. Of course it is expected that you will mop up the short stacks to...
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Rafa Nadal back on the clay, takes second at VTR Open in Chile
"I'm preparing to play God," Argentine tennis pro Horacio Zeballos was heard to say this morning. No one argued with him, because Zeballos' task on Sunday was to play a man named Rafa at the VTR Open...
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Women's Sunday: Second time's the charm for tenteli19
Only yesterday, we turned the spotlight on a few of our final table regulars in Jen Newell's piece, Women of the Women's Sunday, so it's only fitting that a few familiar screen names turned up in this...
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Sunday Warm-Up: Icy road to victory and $108K for SLips713
While snow and sleet cover the terrain outside, like most of the 3,693 players in tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, this scribe decided to remain indoors during the duration of the...
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Parmupill halts KJulius10's run at a second Sunday Million title
One year ago, nearly to the day, Kyle "KJulius10" Julius won the Sunday Million and over $177,000. Back then, he was only about a month removed from the life-changing score he made at the 2012 PCA,...
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