We learned yesterday how Bahram Chobineh only came to play the EPT Deauville Main Event — his first EPT ever — after losing a bet with his home game buddies. He was as surprised as anyone to have made the cash yesterday. And with 24 left he's still in, having folded queens to aces preflop in an eyebrow-raising hand during the first level of Day 4. Chobineh chatted with the PokerStars blog today, still insisting "I don't know what I'm doing."
Ole Schemion and Toby Lewis scooped top honors at the GPI European Poker Awards last night at EPT Deauville. Schemion was decorated for his incredible year playing live, while Lewis’ online antics were given the nod. Other winners included Barny Boatman (Lifetime Achievement), Adrian Mateos Diaz (Rookie of the Year), and Philipp Gruissem (Tournament Performance of the Year). Find out who won what by clicking through to the PokerStars Blog.
Jose Carlos Garcia open shoved for 176,000 and found one interested party. Chun Ho Law dared to call the all in holding and was up against Garcia's .
The wasn't even all that bad for Garcia, he now had four outs to a straight. The on the turn killed those outs though, he could now split it with a jack or win it with another eight. The on the river was a complete blank however and Garcia made his way to the pay out desk.
That means there are 24 players left and the tournament is on hold to redraw the tables.
At the start of the hand Miha Gabric had roughly 300,000 and made it 25,000 to go. He got calls from Chun Ho Law and Alain Alezra and Rustem Muratov then moved all-in from the small blind for roughly 400,000. Back on Gabric he called and the other two players got out the way.
Gabric:
Muratov:
The board meant Muratov spiked a queen on the turn to eliminate Gabric.
We earlier saw Bahram Chobineh fold pocket queens pre-flop but we've just found out that he doesn't like to fold kings. He opened to 24,000 from under-the-gun+1 with , Jose Carlos Garcia three-bet to 59,000 from the small-blind, Chobineh moved all-in for 290,000 and Garcia made the call.
The flop gave Chobineh a set, but Garcia a flush draw. The turn and river were both blanks as far a Garcia was concerned and he was knocked down to 145,000.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here. Best French player? Erwann Pecheux in the number 92 spot.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard (last updated Jan. 30, 2014):
Ole Schemion
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
781.39
2
Vanessa Selbst
736.22
3
Thomas Muhlocker
594.30
4
Georgios Karakousis
512.31
5
Mike McDonald
490.74
6
Jonathan Little
480.01
7
Kenny Hallaert
416.40
8
Andrew Chen
414.18
9
Max Silver
412.50
10
Jeff Rossiter
408.43
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Chun Ho Law lost a couple of pots in a row and found himself rather short. It was time for open shoving and he did just so from the cutoff position. Rustem Muratov in the small blind instantly called and Jeffrey Hakim gave up his big blind.
Ho Law tabled while Muratov had to show for. on the flop and Ho Law was in front. That stayed like that with the on the turn and on the river.
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and was up against Garcia's 
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wasn't even all that bad for Garcia, he now had four outs to a straight. The 
on the turn killed those outs though, he could now split it with a jack or win it with another eight. The 
on the river was a complete blank however and Garcia made his way to the pay out desk.
board meant Muratov spiked a queen on the turn to eliminate Gabric.
flop gave Chobineh a set, but Garcia a flush draw. The 
turn and 
river were both blanks as far a Garcia was concerned and he was knocked down to 145,000.
while Muratov had 
to show for. 
on the turn and 
on the river.