Guillaume Darcourt Tops Day 1B To Lead Into Day 2 Of Deauville Main Event

The Deauville leg of the Season 11 European Poker Tour sponsored by PokerStars.fr continued Monday with the second Day 1 flight, and many of the big names on the circuit participated in what would eventually be a total of 390 entrants. After eight levels of play it was Guillaume Darcourt from France who bested the remaining 227 players with 167,800 chips.

Alessandro Valli from Italy finished the day in second place with 154,800, closely followed by Andrius Bielskis with 150,200. Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann from Germany bagged up a top 10 stack of 126,100 chips.

There were several former EPT Main Event winners competing on Day 1b including four former Deauville champions. Defending champion Sotirios Koutoupas just failed to make it through when he ran pocket threes into kings in the last level. Remi Castaignon, who won EPT Deaville in 2013, and Lucien Cohen, who won in 2011, ended up on the same table towards the end of play and both managed to bag up chips with 91,800 and 85,600, respectively. Jake Cody entered after the dinner break and ran up that stack to 53,000 chips in the last two levels.

Last season’s EPT Grand Final winner Sylvain Loosli was eliminated shortly before the end of Level 8 when he shoved his short stack holding but ran into and couldn’t improve. Vicky Coren-Mitchell, the only two-time EPT winner, managed to hold on with 22,200 when the day closed.

2008 PCA Main Event champion and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier outshined the other previous champions, putting in a strong performance by finishing the day on 123,500. Grospellier proved a master of extracting maximum value several times when he flopped a big hand with an unexpected holding against opponents with strong hands, and he would do the same when he finally cracked the 100k mark. Holding on the turn of a board reading Grospellier bet 6,600 into a pot of 12,000 and picked up one caller in Stephan Faig. The hit the river and a bet of 9,200 again got called before Faig’s hand hit the muck.

Some other notables who navigated the Day 1b minefield include Sergio Aido (97,600), Ilan Boujenah (90,900), Michael Tureniec (90,600), Thomas Butzhammer (87,400), Kevin MacPhee (86,300), Govert Metaal (81,600), Marcin Wydrowski (79,500), PokerStars Team Online's Gabriel Nassif (74,700), PokerStars Team Pro Julien Brecard (61,800) and Vladimir Troyanovskiy (54,300).

While those players can look forward to another day in the Main Event with their dreams of a big pay-day still alive, some of those who failed to make it through and go home empty handed include Sofia Lovgren, Georgios Karakousis, Jean-Noel Thorel, Alex Goulder, Davidi Kitai and Artem Litvinov.

Day 1a saw Nathan Gozlan top the leaderboard with 148,500 heading a field of 199, and with the board showing 392 entrants Monday it created a total of 591 entrants. Gozlan will return second in chips, giving France the top two spots. Registration remains open until the start of Day 2, but that number still represents a slight downward trend since the peak of 2011 when 891 players entered.

Action resumes Tuesay at 12 p.m. local time when the two starting flights will combine and the remaining 335 players continue the battle it out to be crowned EPT Deauville Champion 2015. The PokerNews reporting team will be there to bring you all the live updates from the tournament floor as well as exclusive videos and interviews from Remko Rinkema and details on the feature table live stream.

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	2	Gilles Huet	France	40,100
1	3	Jose Quintas	Portugal	68,700
1	4	Arvydas Merfeldas	Lithuania	60,900
1	5	Yannick Chevrier	France	45,500
1	6	Didier Pitcho	France	49,400
1	7	Ronan Monfort	France	47,500
1	8	Benjamin Buhr	France	106,500
1	9	Sanid Alicic	Netherlands	39,200

2	1	Gaelle Baumann	France	13,700
2	2	Dan Furnival	USA	34,500
2	3	Matti Konttinen	Finland	53,800
2	4	Lucas Monnier	France	37,000
2	5	Andrey Bondar	Russia	24,000
2	6	Nicolau Villa-Lobos	Brazil	47,100
2	7	Marcello Miniucchi	Italy	66,700
2	8	Mercedes Osti	France	23,300
2	9	Ivan Gabrieli	Italy	47,700

3	1	Rony Halimi	France	47,000
3	2	Brian Benhamou	France	38,200
3	4	Rob Strong	Netherlands	115,500
3	5	Joseph El Khoury	Lebanon	45,800
3	6	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	39,200
3	7	Omar Dahmani	France	55,500
3	8	Robin Ylitalo	Sweden	63,400
3	9	Jeremy Dosseul	France	30,800

4	2	Owain Carey	UK	94,000
4	3	Pasquale Grimaldi	Italy	55,800
4	4	Bartolomeo-Fulvio Tato	Italy	63,900
4	5	Ruben Visser	Netherlands	31,000
4	6	Carlos Mora Alvarez	Mexico	36,100
4	7	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	90,600
4	8	Rhys Jones	UK	13,800
4	9	Floris Payraudeau	France	37,900

5	1	Ibrahim ghassan	Lebanon	34,200
5	2	Rasmus Vogt	Denmark	47,500
5	3	Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	France	123,500
5	4	Olof Haglund	Sweden	10,400
5	6	Jeffrey Lawrence	Canada	18,400
5	7	Bastien Panciarola	France	98,950
5	8	Nathan Gozlan	France	148,500
5	9	Jan-Eric Schwippert	Germany	100,600

6	1	Eric Qu	France	55,100
6	2	Steven Moreau	France	26,700
6	3	Sebastien Lebaron	France	70,100
6	4	Maxime Chilaud	France	19,500
6	5	Joffrey Baillieu	France	54,500
6	6	Aurelie Quelain	France	34,000
6	7	Miguel Use	Belgium	27,800
6	8	Tomasz Cybulski	Poland	45,900
6	9	Luca Giovannone	Italy	34,100

7	1	Fabrice Soulier	France	17,000
7	2	Bart Moens	Belgium	26,400
7	3	Patrice Brandt	Germany	86,700
7	5	Fatih Aydin	Netherlands	56,200
7	6	Daniel Carlsson	Sweden	42,800
7	7	Raffaele Sorrentino	Italy	30,100
7	8	Lucien Cohen	France	85,600
7	9	Patryk Slusarek	Poland	123,300

8	1	Benjamin Pollak	France	67,800
8	2	Nicolas Proust	France	79,500
8	3	John Eames	UK	24,000
8	4	Matthias Rohrer	Switzerland	46,400
8	5	Paul Berende	Netherlands	18,400
8	6	Vladimir Novitckii	Russia	12,800
8	7	Luca Moschitta	Italy	33,000
8	8	Anton Bertilsson	Sweden	58,000
8	9	Michael Clifford HIll	UK	86,200

9	1	Sören Ingwart Vöhrs	Germany	88,200
9	2	Yves Soussan	France	59,500
9	3	Christopher Frank	Germany	34,700
9	4	Marina Razuvaeva	Russia	87,400
9	5	Clement Genon-Catalot	France	88,600
9	6	Oleksandr Zhyrnov	Ukraine	35,800
9	8	Florian Ravier	France	6,700
9	9	Filip Bedzinski	Poland	27,500

10	1	Sergio Aido	Spain	97,600
10	2	Alexander Perevorukha	Russia	74,200
10	3	Eros Nastasi	Italy	21,600
10	4	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	105,700
10	6	Vlad Lache	Romania	17,200
10	7	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	44,500
10	8	Martins Adeniya	UK	74,400
10	9	Emin Aghayev	Monaco	50,800

11	1	Arnaud Peyroles	France	84,000
11	2	Marcin Horecki	Poland	92,900
11	3	Bernd Vogelhuber	Germany	41,800
11	4	Nandor Solyom	Romania	106,200
11	5	David Balazuc	France	26,400
11	6	Benjamin Souriau	France	88,000
11	7	Jeronen Vaneenoo	Belgium	55,100
11	8	Remi Castaignon	France	91,800
11	9	Joseph Carlino	France	14,200

12	2	Lionel Rozenberg	France	20,600
12	3	Jesper Feddersen	Germany	78,200
12	4	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	101,300
12	5	Filippo Lazzaretto	Italy	73,700
12	6	Michel Pomaret	France	49,300
12	7	Jannick Wrang	Denmark	58,900
12	8	Frederic Fabron	France	50,900
12	9	Gennady Menshikov	Russia	16,200

13	1	David Van Den Berg	Netherlands	72,000
13	2	Roman Korenev	Russia	47,700
13	3	Mikhail Mazunin	Russia	20,300
13	4	Evangelos Tsaris	Greece	100,800
13	5	Jean Pierre Didier	France	100,400
13	6	Francois Evard	Switzerland	29,800
13	7	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	79,500
13	8	Emile Petit	France	10,400
13	9	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	33,400

14	1	Artur Koren	Germany	62,100
14	2	Kevin MacPhee	USA	86,300
14	3	Stephan Fajg	France	77,800
14	4	Jessy Darthenay	France	44,300
14	5	Fabrice Maltez	France	11,600
14	6	Emil Ekvardt	Sweden	133,600
14	7	Aurelien Guiglini	France	44,000
14	8	Fernand Michelet	France	29,600
14	9	Alexander Ivarsson	Sweden	145,800

15	1	Cyril Ben Soussan	France	18,400
15	2	Olivier Brousse	France	18,300
15	3	Vicente Delgado	Portugal	33,300
15	4	Espen Solaas	Norway	39,000
15	5	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	61,500
15	6	Marius Pospiech	Germany	8,600
15	7	Jonatan Hellman	Sweden	27,900
15	8	Marc Isman	France	58,800
15	9	Moundir Zoughari	France	42,500

16	1	Dawid Kuliberda	Poland	12,500
16	2	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	37,100
16	3	Adrien Guyon	France	58,700
16	4	Soenke Jahn	Germany	44,500
16	5	Jacques Vergnaud	France	23,500
16	6	Franck Kalfon	France	109,000
16	7	David Vamplew	UK	18,400
16	8	Cedric Angosto	France	9,400
16	9	Anthony Picault	France	54,400

17	1	Sameer Khurana	Poland	41,500
17	2	Ilan Boujenah	Israel	90,900
17	3	Olivier Piechaczyk	France	50,900
17	4	Georgy Filippovich	Russia	9,000
17	5	Philippe Ktorza	France	28,200
17	6	Laurent Strouk	France	18,800
17	7	Patrick Nataf	France	49,200
17	8	David Gutfreund	USA	76,900
17	9	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	78,600

18	1	Gabriel Nassif	France	74,700
18	2	Pablo Gordillo	Spain	65,700
18	3	Pascal Aznar	France	48,400
18	4	Anton Astapau	Belarus	31,200
18	5	Vadim Shlez	USA	67,300
18	7	Bouali Saiah	France	49,000
18	8	[Removed:4]	Germany	120,500
18	9	Jouny Hanna	Sweden	118,700

19	1	Maurice Medioni	France	39,800
19	2	Jimmy Vasseur	France	20,600
19	3	Luuk Gieles	Netherlands	63,800
19	4	Dan Charlton	UK	41,300
19	5	Jacques Guenni	France	26,200
19	6	Garcia Rivera	Spain	29,900
19	7	Roberto Gomez Ruiz	Spain	44,300
19	8	Guillaume Diaz	France	69,800
19	9	Stephane Gojon	France	40,900

20	1	Hoi Hoo Leung	Netherlands	40,900
20	2	Stefano Garbarino	Italy	20,000
20	3	Pierre Morin	France	77,000
20	5	Diogo Cardoso	Portugal	58,500
20	6	Sandrine Zeitoun	France	7,800
20	7	Micha Hoedemaker	Netherlands	50,200
20	8	Tomas Pleticha	Czech Republic	46,400
20	9	Claude Metais	France	56,700

21	1	Alexander Tikhoniouk	Ireland	77,100
21	2	Alfie Adam	UK	86,300
21	3	Gareth Teatum	UK	41,700
21	4	Sebastien Boyard	France	31,100
21	5	Firas Nassar	Lebanon	51,400
21	6	Erwann Pecheux	France	47,600
21	7	Georgios Kapalas	Greece	53,300
21	8	Manuel Andrees Sadornil	Spain	85,000
21	9	Sebastien Feron	France	13,500

22	1	Yannick Autaa	France	46,200
22	3	Hamed Sedini	France	35,000
22	4	Jean-Philippe Rohr	France	57,600
22	5	Pierre Peretti	France	82,100
22	6	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	126,300
22	7	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	31,600
22	8	Alex Lindop	UK	12,000
22	9	Dominik Panka	Poland	48,800

23	1	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	35,300
23	2	Jimmy Guerrero	France	70,000
23	3	Jessy Gabison	France	61,600
23	4	Alessandro Valli	Italy	154,800
23	5	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	35,000
23	6	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	20,000
23	7	Sylvain Mousnier	France	77,600
23	8	Jerome Arnould	France	106,100
23	9	Daniel Wilson	Ireland	47,400

24	1	Amir Mozaffarian	Germany	80,700
24	2	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	16,000
24	3	Mike Neuens	Luxembourg	36,900
24	4	Yury Gulyy	Russia	49,400
24	6	Edouard Mignot	France	74,000
24	7	Oleh Okhotskyi	Ukraine	78,800
24	8	Alexander Reard	France	36,500
24	9	Marco Leonzio	Italy	54,700

25	1	Giuseppe Di Stasio	Italy	64,600
25	2	Andrea Dato	Italy	34,600
25	3	Xilong Lin	China	43,500
25	4	Luciano Santos De Hollanda	Brazil	80,100
25	5	Miroslav Alilovic	France	64,600
25	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	45,600
25	7	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	54,300
25	8	Pierre Husson	France	26,700
25	9	Patrick Sonigo	France	65,400

26	1	Gilbert Diaz	France	105,500
26	2	Candido Goncalves	France	20,100
26	3	Michal Mrakes	Czech Republic	135,900
26	4	Saoud Mnahi	Kuwait	74,500
26	5	Andrius Bielskis	Lithuania	150,200
26	6	Pierrick Burban	France	48,400
26	7	Walter Buss	Belgium	85,200
26	8	Jean Wang	France	41,300
26	9	Stavros Kalfas	Greece	116,100

27	1	Matthieu Lamagnere	France	82,500
27	2	Patrick Renkers	Netherlands	37,300
27	3	Charbel Salloum	Lebanon	43,500
27	4	Eric Sadoun	France	45,800
27	5	Viacheslav Goryachev	Russia	18,600
27	6	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	43,300
27	7	Konstantinos Nanos	Germany	27,900
27	8	Zhikang Dai	China	36,200
27	9	Ognjen Sekularac	Serbia	36,700

28	1	Vasili Firsau	Belarus	59,500
28	2	Cyril Pusset	France	11,500
28	4	Javier Rodriguez	Spain	93,300
28	5	Jean-Louis Perez	France	32,100
28	6	Robert Schulz	Germany	109,700
28	7	Mark Muehlhaus	Germany	20,600
28	8	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	47,000
28	9	Maxence Dupont	France	26,000

29	1	Kent Roed	Norway	69,600
29	2	Frans Claesson	Sweden	25,400
29	3	Guy Tomaselli	France	41,200
29	4	Massou Cohen	France	61,500
29	5	Ben Dobson	UK	61,300
29	6	Rui Ferreira	Portugal	17,100
29	7	Nicolas Fraioli	France	21,800
29	8	Thomas Butzhammer	Germany	87,400
29	9	Konstantin Tolokno	Russia	47,300

30	1	Julien Brecard	France	61,800
30	2	Berdugo Saul	France	98,200
30	3	David Mercier	France	33,700
30	4	Jeremy Ciup	France	38,200
30	5	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	81,600
30	6	Frederic Brunet	France	31,100
30	8	Guillaume Darcourt	France	167,800
30	9	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	42,000

31	1	Pierre Sakr	Lebanon	113,300
31	2	Jan Heitmann	Germany	126,100
31	3	Jan Boubli	France	40,700
31	4	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	33,000
31	5	Jacques Der Megreditchian	France	35,100
31	6	Thomas Sobolewski	France	36,500
31	7	Olivier Douce	France	41,300
31	8	Drisse El Ouaret	France	55,200
31	9	Milan Tomasz Rabsz	Poland	101,700

32	2	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	21,700
32	3	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	131,400
32	4	Tatiana Barausova	Russia	24,500
32	5	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	28,300
32	6	Justas Semaska	Lithuania	30,400
32	7	Pavel Gonchakov	Russia	86,500
32	8	Jean Pierre Besancon	France	91,400
32	9	Dany Parlafes	Romania	62,500

33	1	Philippe Barouk	France	49,800
33	3	Jin Haijing	China	74,100
33	4	Kamel Tir	France	51,600
33	5	Jean-Francois Rial	France	42,400
33	6	Stepas Tindziulis	Lithuania	87,800
33	7	Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	Greece	60,800
33	8	Amerigo Santoro	Italy	52,100
33	9	Valdemar Kwaysser	Hungary	72,500

34	1	Anton Wigg	Sweden	84,500
34	2	Christophe Benzimra	France	27,400
34	3	Olivier Temam	France	12,900
34	4	Jerome Zerbib	France	64,400
34	5	Eric Meissonnier	France	102,100
34	6	Ivan Luca	Argentina	53,000
34	7	Artur Yarovoy	Russia	26,900
34	8	Philippe Gellman	France	52,400
34	9	Jake Cody	UK	53,000

35	1	Jeremy Routier	France	18,400
35	2	Julien Duveau	France	32,600
35	3	Marc Trijaud	France	12,700
35	4	Romain Baert	France	28,900
35	5	Nicolas Gredy	France	33,600
35	6	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	18,000
35	7	Damien Lhommeau	France	85,700
35	8	Jacob Ohlund	Sweden	96,200
35	9	Pierre Chevalier	France	24,000

36	1	Alexandre Amiel	France	15,300
36	2	Gregoire Boissenot	France	36,400
36	3	Paul Bertrac	France	44,000
36	4	Mindaugas Jonuskis	Lithuania	62,400
36	5	Ihar Soika	Belarus	30,000
36	6	Dennis Berglin	Sweden	35,700
36	7	Charles Vidal	France	6,600
36	8	Dario Sammartino	Italy	28,800
36	9	Ludovic Geilich	UK	21,200

37	1	Emmanuel Nakache	France	28,700
37	2	Boutros Naim	Lebanon	39,000
37	3	Hyunwoo Kang	Korea	61,000
37	4	Michael Aron	USA	102,100
37	5	David Jaoui	France	88,500
37	6	Niki Rositi	Italy	40,600
37	7	Clyde Tjauw Foe	Netherlands	30,100
37	8	Dimitrios Ballas	Greece	48,400
37	9	Shaun Suller	USA	38,100

38	1	Simon Appleby	UK	36,200
38	2	Todd Jatras	Czech Republic	52,800
38	3	Nichiei Hicks	UK	24,700
38	4	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	43,200
38	5	Sophie Tayeb	France	12,100
38	6	Vincent Verdickt	Belgium	24,900
38	7	David Haroune	France	56,000
38	8	Jeffrey Brouwer	Netherlands	16,400
38	9	Isaac [Removed:250]	France	5,500

39	1	Patrice Biton	France	39,300
39	2	Jan Przysucha	Poland	52,300
39	3	Antonin Duda	Czech Republic	33,600
39	4	[Removed:2]	Lebanon	50,500
39	5	Albert Mercier	France	54,500
39	6	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	18,600
39	7	Gangzhou Hu	France	60,700
39	8	Petr Jelinek	Czech Republic	46,500
39	9	Vicky Coren-Mitchell	UK	22,200