Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
Players are going on a 20-minute break, the last one of Day 1B play.
Bernard Mendy bet 10,000 into a pot of 30,000 on a flop and watched Tomas Soderstrom raise to 42,000.
Mendy went into the tank and thought for a long while. "I'm curious," he said, before putting in the chips to make the call.
Soderstrom showed for a pair of sixes, while Mendy had that beat with .
After the hand Mendy told us how he raised from the small blind pre-flop and Soderstrom defended his big blind. Mendy bet the flop and Soderstrom called. The two checked the river before Mendy got put in a difficult situation on the river.
Mendy is now up to around 300,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bernard Mendy
|
300,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Tomas Soderstrom |
68,000
-47,000
|
-47,000 |
Here are some of the latest chip counts. They include former French international footballer Bernard Mendy, who played 189 times for Paris Saint-[Removed:361] between 2000 and 2008.
Dara O'Kearney has picked up where he left off before the dinner break, and is closing in on 200,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bernard Mendy
|
270,000 | |
Dara O'Kearney |
180,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
Gael Illan
|
127,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
Tomas Soderstrom |
115,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
Sylvain Loosli |
105,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Alexandre Sette raised to 5,000 on the button and Patrick Bruel three-bet to 16,000. Sette called and the flop came . Bruel continued for 30,000 and after some thought Sette called.
The turn was the and Bruel moved all in. Sette snap-called.
Alexandre Sette:
Bruel:
Sette had turned a wheel, and Bruel was desperately trying to find a card that could save him. But there wasn't one. He was drawing dead and the river was nought but a formality.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alexandre Sette
|
190,000 | |
Patrick Bruel |
110,000
57,300
|
57,300 |
|
With yesterday's figure of 803,000 in mind, players are continuing to hone in on Team Winamax Pro's Day 1A chip leading stack, including Paul Patouilliart who tweeted to say that he was up to 300,000 with the average around 80,000. He also remarked on how friendly the table is, which is always a plus!
Début de day1B assez cool sur le #WPODublin ! 300k en 1k/2k avg 80k, nouvelle table sympathique avec @gerarmendujeu https://t.co/XVepzMEhjt
— Paul Pat. (@lapatouille)
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Paul Patouilliart | 300,000 |
As the players return from their dinner break, reunited in playing Level 10 together, the tournament clock shows 702 entrants for Day 1B, with 385 remaining.
This, coupled with the 373 players from yesterday's Day 1A, means that there are a total of 1,075 players, almost beating the record of the largest Winamax Poker Open from four years ago. And with half an hour left on the clock, that number could grow even further!
Year | Players | Winner | Country | First Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | 1,086 | Jerome Guermeur | France | €75,000 |
2014 | 994 | Tom Kitt | Ireland | €75,000 |
2015 | 959 | Pierre Calamusa | France | €70,000 |
2016 | 987 | Antonin Teisseire | France | €72,000 |
2017 | 1,075* |
*as of the start of Level 10
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300