The €5,000 buy PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Deauville attracted a fiercely competitive 343 players to the Casino Barriere on the Normandy coast in France. Included in their number were scores of some of the biggest winners in the game including Dario Minieri, Gavin Griffin, Luca Pagano, Noah Boeken, Peter Eastgate, Antony Lellouche, Thomas Fougeron, Bruno Fitoussi, Fabrice Soulier, Freddy Deeb, and former EPT Deauville champion Mats Iremark.
It was English raider Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, who is on a roll after his recent €152,000 victory at the Euro Finals of Poker, who made all the right moves from the get go despite getting quite short stacked early in the game.
Holding K-J, and with Q-10 on the board, Devilfish hit a straight on the turn but this also gave his opponent, who had A-K, two pair. All the money went in but Devilfish stayed ahead and kicked on.
He got very busy, picking up blinds and bullying with his large stack at every available opportunity, confidence clearly oozing with a relaxed demeanor before picking up ahuge pot at the end of the day.
As the dust settled the in-form Devilfish was chip leader of the 248 strong field. The top 10 going into day 2 are:
David Ulliott (UK) — 120,000
Jonathan Abdellatif (Belgium) —105,000
Anonymous —104,500
Joep van den Bijgaart (Holland) — 80,800
Guillaume De La Gorce (France) —79,800
Manuel Bevand (France) — 72,500
Arnaud Vicente (France) — 65,000
Olivier Da Silva (Portugal) — 64,700
Conor Crilly (UK) — 64,000
Otto Richard (France) — 62,500
In total 645 players hit the felt at the European Poker Tour Deauville creating a total prize pool of €3,096,000. As usual, 10 percent of the field —64 players — will get paid, and the final table payouts are:
First — €851,400
Second — €495,400
Third — €284,800
Fourth — €219,800
Fifth — €182,700
Sixth — €142,400
Seventh — €108,300
Eighth — €77,400
Today sees day 1A survivors join day 1B’s for a battle of the brave, here at the EPT Deauville, so join CardPlayer.com at noon (11 a.m. GMT) for more action.
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