Today the last 10 players left in the WPT National Series Paris by ACFPoker.fr came back to play down until 8 players.
Sam Trickett from Team Titan was 2nd in chips at the start of the day but spent a hard hour and a half losing a big part of his stack. He qualified for the Final Table which will be played on Tuesday at 4:00 pm local time.
88 players qualified for Day 2 action at the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Series Paris by ACFPoker.fr in the Aviation Club de France. We saw ahead of us a long day until we ended up with 27 players for Day 3.
The pace of eliminations was really fast. Unfortunately one of the first victims of the day was our German member of Team Titan, Marvin Rettenmaier.
We’re following our players at the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Series Paris by ACFPoker.fr in the Aviation Club de France on the Champs-Elysées. The buy-in to this event is: €5,000.
91 players started on Day 1A and 37 players survived and qualified for Day 2. Now we join the action on Day 1B with 97 players registered. Team Titan mates Sam Trickett and Marvin Rettenmaier have started on Day 1B.
Team Titan captain Sorel Mizzi has finished in the top ten places at his last two World Poker Tour events, but in both cases, he just missed appearing at the televised Final Table.
Competing in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic this week at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Sorel was eliminated in ninth place by the current chipleader, Vanessa Rousso. He won $59,123.
Team Titan captain Sorel Mizzi is currently ranked in 14th place in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event taking place at the Bellagio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.
Buy-ins at the tournament were $10,000+$300, and first prize is guaranteed $870,124. 54 players, all of them in the money, will resume action in Day 4 play later today.
Welcome to Amnéville in the northeast of France. We’ll be spending a passionate week of poker on the latest stage of the World Poker Tour circuit in France.
This is the second stop of the famous poker tournament in France this year after the Parisian edition which took place last May at the Aviation Club de France on the Champs-Elysées where Danish player Theo Jorgensen triumphed.
We are at the Seven 7 Casino in Amnéville and the €3200 + €300 Main Event will start at 2 pm local time.
Some of the members of Team Titan willl be playing this event and we cross our fingers for great results.
At this precise moment more than 400 players are already registered for the tournament and probably a lot more will still sign up later today and tomorrow morning.
Good Luck All !
Finally, 192 players paid the 3,200 € + 300 buy-in and entered into play at Day 1B of the tournament.
It is 3 o’clock in the morning here in Paris at the Aviation Club de France and Day 1A of the WPT Paris 2010 is over.
Sorel Mizzi finished the day with 8,150. He put up an excellent resistance for 2 hours and will return the day after tomorrow and try to make a come-back.
At the moment, the chip leader is Fabrice Tuil with a huge stack of 175,000 chips for an average of 60,000 chips.
Good night everybody !!!
On the blinds 200/400 Ante 50 and on the flop 9-4-4. Sorel in a middle position is the first to act and he bet 2,600.
Just after him, Manuel Bévand made the call and his friend Vikash Dhorasoo did the same.
Turn: 9 Check-check-check
River: 7 Sorel opened at 6,5 K and both French Winamax’s players called. Mizzi mucked his hand when he discovered the hands of his opponents commenting “Nice turn guys !”.
Manuel Bévand: 9-Q
Vikash Dhorasoo: 9-4
Total of the prizepool is €133,754 .
18 players will be paid out.
Winner: €42,789 + a ticket for the WPT Main Event
2nd: €22,740
3rd: €16,050
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