Ben Warrington is feeling quite comfy right now, but that isn't based on his chip stack but rather the jacket he is wearing. Alexander Reard must feel even better as he stormed off his seat after knocking out Bruno Fitoussi with pocket aces versus pocket kings. There were three spades on the flop and Fitoussi had the , but the best starting hand in No Limit Hold'em didn't get cracked.
The clock indicates there are 365 players who started today on Day 1b. Registration will be open the entire day. In fact, players are able to register up till the start of Day 2 for this tournament.
Here's a look at the number of entrants. PokerNews has been covering this event since 2010 and so we know the entrants per starting days for these editions of the Deauville stop.
* In some years Day 1a and 1b don't add up to the number under total, as players were able to register before Day 2 without having played one of the two starting days.
Ruben Visser, champion of the Master Classics of Poker this past November, and Christopher Frank have both entered the competition. While Visser is still around starting stack, Frank just paid off a 2,000-value bet of an opponent on the river of a board.
The German was still all smiles when he joked "that was a pretty good turn card for you", mucking to the of his opponent. It may be a strange coincidence though, but Frank was also on the final table when Visser took down the EPT 10 London Main Event for £595,000.
On a board of Nikolaus Teichert from Germany had a bet of 3,500 in front of him. Teichert, seated in middle position, was facing a raise to 13,500 from EPT Grand Final winner Antonio Buonanno in the hijack.
The clock ticked away slowly, but Teichert wasn't moving. Eventually a player at the table called the clock. The floor came over and gave Teichert one minute of time to think. At the 30 second mark, Teichert tossed in two 5,000 chips to call.
Buonanno rolled over for not much of anything. Teichert didn't quite grasped he had won yet, but after a couple of seconds tabled for the winner. Buonanno frowned and counted his own stack. The Italian EPT champion has about 26,000.
There was a preflop raising war between Bart Lybaert and Vasili Firsau with another 2,850 chips going into the pot by both players on the flop. Virsau then bet 5,000 on the turn and his opponent from Belgian let go. Lybaert is still up for the day though whereas Virsau is below starting stack and now also faces the opposition on EPT champion Jannick Wrang.
Jan Heitmann is tearing up the tables thus far and won yet another big pot before we spotted the PokerStars Team Pro betting 3,700 into a pot of 6,000. His opponent was sent into the think tank on the turn of a board and then eventually said a simple "no" before mucking the cards.
A middle positioned player opened to 500 and action folded around to 2013 World Series of Poker November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis on the button. He made it 1,300 to go and the small blind folded. Konstantinos Nanos called from the big blind and the original raiser came along as well.
The flop came down and action checked to Brummelhuis. He continued for 1,450, Nanos called, and the original raiser folded. The on the turn prompted checks from both players, allowing the to finish the board. Nanos bet 3,775 on the river and action was back on Brummelhuis. He thought for a moment before moving all in over the top for what looked to be around 8,000 total. Nanos immediately dropped calling chips past the betting line.
Brummelhuis showed but was ultimately bested by Nanos' for a turned full house. Brummelhuis hit the rail and Nanos boosted his stack up to 43,000.
As predicted it didn’t take long for Ludovic Geilich and Artem Litvinov to tangle in a hand which led Geilich to recall one of his favourite hands involving Litvinov.
We joined the action in this hand with a flop of . Johnny Nedved bet 900 and Geilich bumped it up to 2,100. Litvinov was next to act and he cold four-bet to 5,300.
Nedved quickly folded and Geilich checked how much Litvinov had behind, which was around 16,000. Geilich waited for a while before checking his cards twice and pushing them forward.
Geilich then said to Litvinov, “I was waiting for you to say, If you want, go all in I call. Please don’t slow roll me if you go all in.” In reference to a notorious hand he had played against David Vamplew at EPT 9 Monte Carlo.
Litvinov did recall the hand and Geilich said that if ever feels a bit down he watches that and it cheers him up.
, but the best starting hand in No Limit Hold'em didn't get cracked.
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of his opponent. It may be a strange coincidence though, but Frank was also on the final table when Visser took down the EPT 10 London Main Event for £595,000.
for the winner. Buonanno frowned and counted his own stack. The Italian EPT champion has about 26,000.
flop. Virsau then bet 5,000 on the 
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and action checked to Brummelhuis. He continued for 1,450, Nanos called, and the original raiser folded. The 
. Johnny Nedved bet 900 and Geilich bumped it up to 2,100. Litvinov was next to act and he cold four-bet to 5,300.
