WPTDeepStacks Paris

WPTDS Brussels champion Omar Lakhdari returns on Day 2b with a healthy stack of 130,000

Par Frank Op de Woerd

After eleven levels of 40-minutes each on Day 1b, Éric Souvay mène le peloton dans le Main Event WPTDeepStacks Paris. The Frenchman turned his 30,000 pile de départ dans 268,300, more than anyone else in the beautiful Club Pierre Charron salle de poker du Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile.

Grâce à 74 players surviving from a massive field of 205 entrées, Jour 1b transcended the standard set by Day 1a in every fashion as both more players entered and fewer survived.

"Omar comin'!" one might have heard as WPTDS Brussels Main Event winner Omar Lakhdari was the life of the party all day. The WPTDS title defender - he picked up €92,000 winning the Main Event in Belgium's capital earlier this month - closed out the day with a stack of 130,000.

WPTDS Paris Day 1b Haut 5 Nombre de jetons :

Jour 1b of the WPTDS Paris Main Event got underway at 9 pm local time with over seventy players registered, far ahead of the pace set by the thirty that started Day 1un à 10 am. The number of entries snowballed with over a hundred players in their seats by the time the second level started.

Many familiar French poker players made their debut in Paris, with Antonin "The Pavarotti of Poker" Teisseire and Eric Sfez just two of the many longtime poker players showing up. Both those legendary players busted before the end of the day, with many more joining them before the day came to a close.

Erwann Pecheux, un peu plus jeune que Teisseire et Sfez mais tout aussi reconnaissable, démarre fort mais se retrouve finalement court. Dans l'un des derniers niveaux de la journée, il a réussi à entrer avec une paire ouverte contre une top paire, et il n'a pas réussi à toucher au tournant ou à la rivière.

Maybe not as experienced but seemingly just as excited was Simon Touil. He doubled early with a lucky jack on the river saving his tournament life. While he started the day with good fortune, he suffered a beat later on and sat out for numerous levels. When he returned, he came to create order and quickly gained chips. The levels missed didn't hurt him too much, and he returns for Day 2b with a slightly below average stack.

Antoine Labat busted late on Day 1b but can reenter on Day 1c or Day 1d if he so pleases

Antoine Labat, who made the final table of the world's biggest poker tournament for a score of $1,000,000 de retour 2018, didn't have much luck today. He first got short, calling someone down in a three-bet pot. Labat a perdu le reste de ses jetons face à Milad Oghabian, en jouant avec des deux contre une paire de dix.

Oghabian did survive the day, albeit with a below-average stack of 65,600. Oghabian and the other 71 survivors return on Saturday, February 29que 8 pm heure locale pour la journée 2b, where the goal is to play down to the money.

But first Day 1c et jour 1d await, getting started on Friday, February 28 at 10 je suis et 9 pm, respectively. They are scheduled to do it all over again with another 11 les niveaux de 40 minutes each awaiting those signing up. This event is held in a single reentry format so those who busted once on Day 1un ou 1b, can try again on Day 1c or Day 1d.

Check back soon with the live updates on WPT.com as we see just how big this massive event gets. With 180 le jour 1a et 205 le jour 1b, things are off to an excellent start for the WPTDS Paris Main Event that returned to France's capital after a seven-year hiatus!

Découvrez tous les Photos du WPTDS Paris sur Flickr. Photos du WPT Paris gracieuseté de Tomas Stacha.

Eric Souvay - 268,300
Giuseppe Zarbo - 260,000
Donovan Baer - 216,200
Miguel Neves - 192,700
Mourad Falfoul - 139,000
Omar Lakhdari - 130,000
Sam Benoliel - 103,300
Kacper Pyzara - 96,000
Milad Oghabian - 65,600
Matthieu Sustrac - 16,000

Alors qu'il ne reste que quelques mains dans la journée, Paul van Oort se lève de la table et se dirige vers le rail. Il nous dit qu'il a réussi avec une double paire contre une sur-paire d'as. Malheureusement pour Van Oort, la rivière a associé le board à un quatre pour contrefaire sa double paire et donner à son adversaire la meilleure main.

Van Oort: "Oh well, there's always tomorrow I guess."

The tournament director just announced there are four more hands to be played for the day. Once those are done, the seal-bags come out and players will be asked to bag and tag. We return to you shortly with assorted end-of-day chip counts and an extensive recap of today's action.

Giuseppe Zarbo - 230,000
Eric Laurent Souvay - 190,000
Hugo Jacques Baudry - 160,000
Patrick Samir Kallas - 160,000
Benjamin Olivier Souriau - 135,000
Omar Lakhdari - 130,000

Il ya encore 20 minutes remaining in for the day, but we can already say that more players entered on Day 1b compared to Day 1a, and fewer survived. Day 1une scie 180 entrées avec 86 surviving. With half a level left in the day on Day 1b, 205 entries are registered on the clock with currently 84 restant.

As we arrive, Erwann Pecheux shoves for his remaining 8,000 ou alors sur un flop de . Son seul adversaire dans la main, Jean Luc Antoine Voyer suit instantanément.

Erwann Pécheux : Jean-Luc Antoine Voyer :

Pécheux cherche de l'aide mais ne parvient pas à frapper avec le au tournant et sur la rivière.

Erwann Pêcheux - éliminée
Jean Luc Antoine Voyer - 53,000

The last level of the day starts now, with blinds of 600/1,200 et 1,200-grosse blinde ante.

Samuel Touil, who was sitting out for some time, returns to the table and now sits on a stack of 60,000, just under average. Eric Sfez, meanwhile, is eliminated sitting on the rail. Here are some more assorted chip counts:

Samuel Touil - 60,000
Thi Xoa Nguyen - 53,000
Matthieu Sustrac - 42,000
Erwann Pêcheux - 14,000
Éric Sfez - éliminée

D'un champ de 205 entries, currently, 92 players remain. Giuseppe Zarbo leads with 230,000 in chips, almost eight times the starting stack of 30,000.

When we arrive at the table, WPTDS Brussels winner Omar Lakhdari in middle position bets 2,500 blind. With Lakhdari's blind bet already in the middle, the dealer fans the flop of . Lakhdari's opponent Benjamin Bohbot calls from the cutoff.

Votre on the turn sees Lakhdari bet 7,000. Bohbot wastes little time and calls again.

Les deux joueurs vérifient le sur la rivière et Bohbot montre son first. It isn't enough, though, as Lakhdari tables pour le fullhouse riverain.

Omar Lakhdari - 142,000
Benjamin Bohbot - 80,000

WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam est de retour !

Après une pause d'un an, l'étape néerlandaise de la tournée est presque arrivée. De retour à la demande générale, la série revient au Holland Casino Amsterdam Centre pour 2020.

Pour la nouvelle décennie, quelques changements ont été introduits : premièrement, la série aura lieu fin mars, plutôt que début avril ; Deuxièmement, l’événement DeepStacks sera l’événement phare du festival cette année.

In 2018, Christos Economides a remporté le WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam, en remportant un74,760 partie de l'€325,375 généré pour la cagnotte.

Pour 2020, le buy-in sera de €1,200 et la dotation n'avait pas encore été confirmée au moment de la mise sous presse.

L'événement WPTDS n'est qu'un des nombreux événements au programme, la tournée s'étalant sur neuf jours à partir de mars 7-15, culminant avec le WPTDS Main Event de mars 12-15.

Festival WPTDeepstacks d'Amsterdam
Mars 7-15, 2020

Ouvreur WPTDeepStacks
Dates : Mars 7-8, 2020
Buy-in: €500 + €60 =€560

Événement principal WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam
Dates : Mars 12-15, 2020
Buy-in: €1,100 + €100 =€1,200

WPTDeepStacks High Roller
Dates : Mars 14-15, 2020
Buy-in: €2,000 + €200 =€2,200

Paul van Oort

In the break, Paul van Oort walks by the media desk and tells us how he just won a big pot.

Van Oort opens under the gun for 1,700 tenue and Julien Stropoli behind him three-bets to 5,100. The action folds back to Van Oort and he calls. The Dutchman check-calls a bet of 3,600 on and leads for 9,800 sur le tourner. Stropoli appelle.

Votre on the river pairs the board and brings in Van Oort's flush and he bets 16,400. Stropoli shoves for 32,800 and Van Oort, who tells us he initially wanted to bet-fold the river, decides to call. Stropoli shows and Van Oort takes down the big pot avec sa couleur.

Paul van Oort- 131,700
Julien Stropoli - éliminée

Play is back underway with the blinds at 500 ainsi que 1,000 et 1,000 big blind ante. Late registration is closed for the day so the earliest one can renter, would be tomorrow's Day 1c.

The last remaining break just got underway. Players return in 15 minutes and play two more levels for the day.

Kacper Pyzara - 53,000
Matthieu Sustrac - 36,500
Sandrine Rousseau - 30,000
Jakub Michalak - 29,000
Éric Sfez - 23,000
Erwann Pêcheux - 20,000

Samuel Touille, qui plus tôt dans la journée doublé dans une grosse main contre Romain Serge Piraux, has been missing from the table for quite a while now. According to a player at the table, Touil left after a hand where he lost some chips. He hasn't returned since.

With still 36,100 in chips - 45 big blinds - it's likely he'll make Day 2 even if he decides to sit the remainder of the day out.

Samuel Touil - 36,100

Luis Miguel De Sousa Neves - 155,000
Giuseppe Zarbo - 141,000
Geloul Bendib - 130,000
Sebastien Kassubeck - 100,000
Omar Lakhdari - 100,000

The ninth level of the day just started; 400-800 peut comprendre un atténuateur. 800 big blind ante. This is the last level that players have the option to reenter. Once this level is done, two more are on the schedule for Day 1b with the day ending upon the completion of Level 11.

Vincent Julien Klingbeil boite sous le coup du pistolet pour 600 et son voisin Eric Sfez relance à 1,500. Le détournement et le gros call blind et maintenant Klingbeil transforme son limp en un limp-shove pour 6,200. Sfez perd peu de temps à appeler, le hijack et le big blind finissent par abandonner.

Vincent Julien Klingbeil : Éric Sfez :

Le tableau arrive et Klingbeil et Sfez se serrent la main avant que le premier ne parte tandis que le second est occupé 47,100.

Vincent Julien Klingbeil - éliminée
Éric Sfez - 47,100