The €5.300 Main Event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris at Club Barrière Paris played its penultimate day of play yesterday, Saturday.
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1.474 entries had participated in this event and yesterday the 16 remaining players started the day. All players were guaranteed €47.500 at this point and the big goal for yesterday was to reach the final table. Today, the final will be played for a top prize of €1.148.600!
The German-speaking community watched spellbound as the action unfolded, as we still had two strong representatives in the race with Jessica Teusl from Austria and Felix Schneiders from Germany.
Teusl misses the big win
The Austrian poker queen Jessica Teusl had the chance to be the first woman in twelve years to win an EPT Main Event. However, this dream ended in 13th place when she ran her pocket tens into Jorge Abreu’s pocket jacks. For this placement, she was able to take home €68.050, which will surely only taste good in a few weeks after this disappointment.
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Thus, Felix Schneiders remained for DACH and he survived the day with 13 big blinds. He is therefore the shortest stack in the final of the last seven, but everything is still possible. Especially considering that Enrico Coppola is directly ahead of him with 15 big blinds and there are two other stacks of 20 and 21 big blinds. So there could be at least a few pay jumps if things go well.
Dethroning the chip leader Jorge Abreu, on the other hand, will be a bit more difficult, as he starts the final with an incredible 150 big blinds – more than the rest of the field combined.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jorge Abreu | Portugal | 22,425,000 | 150 |
| 2 | Casimir Seire | Finland | 6,400,000 | 43 |
| 3 | Nazar Buhaiov | Ukraine | 5,025,000 | 34 |
| 4 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 3,200,000 | 21 |
| 5 | Thierry Gogniat | France | 2,950,000 | 20 |
| 6 | Enrico Coppola | Italy | 2,250,000 | 15 |
| 7 | Felix Schneiders | Germany | 1,950,000 | 13 |
| POS | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1 | €1,148,600 | ||
| 2 | €717,350 | ||
| 3 | €512,400 | ||
| 4 | €394,150 | ||
| 5 | €303,150 | ||
| 6 | €233,200 | ||
| 7 | €179,350 | ||
| 8 | Sami Bechahed | France | €137,950 |
| 9 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | €106,150 |
| 10 | Mitchell Garshofsky | USA | €81,650 |
| 11 | Julien Mariani | France | €81,650 |
| 12 | Mihai Tabac | Romania | €68,050 |
| 13 | Jessica Teusl | Austria | €68,050 |
| 14 | Raphael Bilger | France | €56,750 |
| 15 | Chady El Ojeil | Lebanon | €56,750 |
| 16 | Pawel Wojciechowski | Poland | €47,250 |
| 17 | Joachim Meisolle | Germany | €47,250 |
| 18 | Zdenek Zizka | Czech Republic | €39,950 |
| 19 | Bruno Fuentes | France | €39,950 |
| 20 | Adrian-Sorel State | Romania | €39,950 |
| 21 | Ricardo Alves de Sousa | Portugal | €34,750 |
| 22 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | €34,750 |
| 23 | Gabriel Nahum | France | €34,750 |
| 24 | Jakub Sterba | Czech Republic | €30,200 |
| 25 | Laurent Vauquelin | France | €30,200 |
| 26 | Hugo de La Fouchardiere | France | €30,200 |
| 27 | Lyudmil Ivanov | Bulgaria | €30,200 |
| 28 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | €26,250 |
| 29 | Joshua Boulton | United Kingdom | €26,250 |
| 30 | Paul Runcan | Romania | €26,250 |
| 31 | Manuel Carvalho | Portugal | €26,250 |
| 32 | Ruben Lopes | Portugal | €22,850 |
| 33 | Gael Djenkal | France | €22,850 |
| 34 | Carlos Rocha Marques | Portugal | €22,850 |
| 35 | Eric Haber | France | €22,850 |
| 36 | Daniel Moran | United Kingdom | €22,850 |
| 37 | Renato Minicuci | Italy | €22,850 |
| 38 | Joel Ettedgi | United Kingdom | €22,850 |
| 39 | Cedric Boyer | France | €22,850 |
| 40 | Mario Colavita | Italy | €19,800 |
| 41 | Eduardo Amaral Silva | Brazil | €19,800 |
| 42 | Alexandre Fournier | Canada | €19,800 |
| 43 | Yuliyan Kolev | Bulgaria | €19,800 |
| 44 | Alex Keating | USA | €19,800 |
| 45 | Endrit Geci | United Kingdom | €19 |
