€8,500 Cannes Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes
€8,500 Cannes Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes
Buy-in
$12,300
Entries
480
Level
31
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
15,000
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1.) Fabrice Nkoa - 121,700
2.) James 'Flushy' Dempsey - 107,400
3.) Mohamed El Berrak - 102,000
4.) Jean Luc Angleraud - 91,400
5.) Pierre Eugene Charil - 86,300
Some of the notable names who made it through the first day include Juha Helppi, Gus Hansen, Arnaud Mattern, James "Flushy" Dempsey, and the lone woman in the Day 1a field, Julie Donnaz. Some of the pros were not so lucky though. Among the casualties of today's action were pros Chris Ferguson, Theo Jorgensen, Ramzi Jelassi, Fabrice Soulier, Dario Minieri, Anthony Lellouche, and Jason Mercier.
Tomorrow will bring a fresh set of faces for Day 1b, including all of the Poker Battle crew. We expect to have approximately the same number of players tomorrow as we did today, which should bring the total number of entrants well over the 400 mark. Play begins again at 3:00pm sharp, and we hope you'll join us then. Goodnight from Cannes!
The flop came
before the small blind player open-shoved for 15,500. Zaicik snap-called with 
. The small-blind player looked very sheepish as he revealed 
for king high!Running queens confirmed the pot was heading Zaicik's way as his opponent headed out of the room, afer lasting all but ten minutes of the day.
Zaicik on 65,000 now.
and moved all in over the top of an opponent's 2,000 pre-flop raise. His opponent made the call and tabled a pocket pair of jacks, leaving Torrent drawing quite slim. Unable to improve, Torrent was eliminated from the Main Event and headed straight for the bar.
On a flop of
the action checked around to a player in late position who made it 1,200 to go. Four players made the call including Ferguson and Jacques Zaicik. The
fell on the turn and a player in the small blind passed the first action to Ferguson who moved all in for a total of 10,825. The player to Chris' immediate left then quickly put in a raise in an effort to try and isolate Ferguson. The player who bet the flop folded as did Zaicik, which brought the action to the small blind who surprised practically everyone at the table when he shoved all in over the top, having both Chris and the player to his left covered. The call was made and at the showdown the following hands were revealed:Ferguson:
Small blind:
Unknown:
Needing a spade to stay alive, Ferguson rapped the table conceding defeat when the
fell on the river, enabling his opponents to take back their all-in bets and split the main pot.
Five people limp into this particular pot, and they see the dealer spread the flop:
. Testud puts out a bet of 5,000, approximately the size of the pot. Action folds all the way back around to the player on his right, who makes the call.Heads up, the turn brings the
. Testud again fires away, pushing out 20,000 chips. His opponent check-raises him all in, and Testud makes the call. With his tournament life on the line, Testud and his opponent show down their hands:Testud:
Opponent:
It is bad news for Testud as he is drawing dead to the river, which is a meaningless
. He is eliminated from the field in the closing minutes of Day 1a.
.It was checked to Dempsey who continued his aggression with a 3,050 bet. His opponent promptly made this 7,000 to play. Not deterred by this move, Dempsey re-raised up to 23,000 signaling his intent to play for his whole stack. The message must have beamed across loud and clear as the big blind player duly folded.
Dempsey told me after wards that he was holding
. So, not a bad flop to play back at an opponent!
The board runs out
with the two live players check-checking the whole way. When all is said and done, Dymling turns over the and the one at a time. His full house is good, as the original raiser open-mucks his 
. The third player in the hand does not show his cards, but it clearly can't beat a full house.With that timely win, Nichlas Dymling triples himself up just over 18,000.
Was Ygborn making a move and did Zaicik spot that? No cards were exposed so we'll never know.
Ygborn sitting on 63,000 whereas Zaicik has 48,000.