Who Can Stop Dany Parlafes?

"It's the year of Romania" said Dany Parlafes multiple times yesterday. Even before he was the biggest stack in the house, he was foreseeing a good future for his country. He's in a great position to start that year off greatly poker wise, as he has 44 percent of the chips in play with just six players remaining in the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville Main Event.

With 126 big blinds, he has twice the amount of chips of any one else on the final table. But it's not a lock just yet, there are five hungry competitors all eying that €543,700 first prize as well. If not Romania, than France has the biggest chance. Not only half the players are from there, with Benjamin Buhr they have the number two in chips and with Benjamin Pollak they have the most experienced player. And what about Joseph Carlino? The singing, taekwondo chopping Frenchman would be without a doubt the most flamboyant EPT champion of all 11 seasons. Or it might just become the year of Bulgaria (Ognyan Dimov) or Lituania (Andrius Bielskis), don't overlook these solid players either.

There will be enough rail fun this afternoon, so much is clear. There will be drama, there will be suck outs, and there will be singing most likely. PokerNews.com will be there to report on it all. All indeed, as we'll be doing hand for hand coverage so you won't have to miss a thing. Play starts at noon, but coverage will start an hour later, so we can include hole card information from the live stream and won't spoiler you if you're keeping track of both the stream and the live reporting blog.

There are 19 minutes left in level 28, with blinds at 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante. Stay tuned, reporting starts in 3 hours from now!

Final Table Draw

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	BB's in level 28	BB's in level 29
1	Benjamin Pollak	France	1,670,000	28	21
2	Andrius Bielskis	Lituania	1,680,000	28	21
3	Dany Parlafes	Romania	7,580,000	126	95
4	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	3,405,000	57	43
5	Benjamin Buhr	France	2,575,000	43	32
6	Joseph Carlino	France	875,000	15	11

Pay Out

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1			€543,700
2			€338,700
3			€242,390
4			€187,550
5			€147,760
6			€115,650
7	Massou Cohen	France	€85,530
8	Matas Cimbolas	Lituania	€58,820

Blind Structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante	Duration
28	30,000	60,000	10,000	18 minutes
29	40,000	80,000	10,000	90 minutes
30	50,000	100,000	10,000	90 minutes
31	60,000	120,000	20,000	90 minutes
32	80,000	160,000	20,000	90 minutes
33	100,000	200,000	30,000	90 minutes
34	120,000	240,000	30,000	90 minutes
35	150,000	300,000	40,000	90 minutes
36	200,000	400,000	50,000	90 minutes