Les joueurs ont repris leurs places à l’issue du dinner-break, il y a un peu plus d’une heure désormais. Les blinds sont donc 150-300 ante 25, et cette dernière heure aura été meurtrière.

L’Empire Casino aura vu les éliminations successives (et dans le désordre) de:

Phil Yvey

Jeff Lisandro

Barny Boatman

Markus Gloser

Ram Vaswani

Howard Lederer

Mike Matusow et Andy Bloch sont actuellement très bien placés avec respectivement 75,000 et 65,000 jetons.

Coté féminin, Erika Schoenberg compte 33,000 chips, suivie de près par Vicky Coren (31,000)

Côté français, Antony Lellouche avait 5,000 jetons juste avant la reprise, et est remonté aux alentours de 10,000.

Stéphane Bazin: out

David Benyamine: out

Bruno Fitoussi: 13,000

Jacques Zaicik: 10,000

Il reste actuellement 118 joueurs sur les 159 du départ.

- Martin de Knijff
- Antonio Esfandiari (ci-dessous)

- Pete Giordano
- Alan Smurfit
- Ram Vaswani (ci-dessous)

- Peter Gould
- Mark Teltscher
- Marc Goodwin
- Annette Obrestad (ci-dessous)

- Yevgeniy Timoshenko
- Ilios Kamatakis
- Margarita Gonzalez (ci-dessous)

- Manu B.
- Thomas Fougeron (TEAM770)

Bonjour à tous !

Dans quelques minutes les 135 survivants du day 1A et day 1B vont reprendre leurs places pour une nouvelle journée de combat. A priori la journée s’achèvera lorsqu’il ne restera que 27 joueurs, soit “In The Money”.

Voici le chip-count officiel (merci WPT), les joueurs français sont en gras (toutes mes excuses par avance si j’en ai oublié, on ne sait jamais)
1. Nishijima, Thiago - 85,375 (seat 10-5)
2. Howard, David - 85,250 (seat 5-2)
3. Friberg, Erik - 76,750 (seat 3-8)
4. Sitbon, Choua - 71,525 (seat 8-5)
5. Mestre Lleida, Raul - 70,600 (seat 17-1)
6. Rahal, Kalil - 62,150 (seat 5-1)
7. Dunst II, George Anthony - 61,800 (seat 16-4)
8. Timoshenko, Yevgeniy - 60,875 (seat 16-1)
9. Ravnsbaek, Simon - 58,700 (seat 17-4)
10. Nemirovsky, Dmitry - 57,750 (seat 8-1)
11. Yilmaz, Huseyin - 56,975 (seat 10-4)
12. Thorel, Jean Noel - 56,875 (seat 6-5)
13. Talebi, Matin - 55,650 (seat 17-2)
14. Aris, Christian - 55,375 (seat 5-4)
15. Sjoegren, Jens Patrik - 53,925 (seat 8-2)
16. Hansen, Casper Dahl - 50,650 (seat 10-6)
17. Kjondal, Kristian - 50,000 (seat 6-9)
18. Gleize, Jean-Pierre - 48,975 (seat 10-3)
19. Obrestad, Annette - 48,400 (seat 15-9)
20. Wells, David - 47,900 (seat 9-1)
21. Hersleth, Paul - 47,800 (seat 11-9)
22. Mattsson, Stefan - 47,450 (seat 8-7)
23. Fares, Hassan - 46,400 (seat 6-8)
24. Jelassi, Ramzi Alexander - 46,125 (seat 4-9)
25. Heinanen, Pasi Jaakko - 45,475 (seat 4-7)
26. Antonius, Patrik - 44,300 (seat 15-8)
27. Larsson, Andreas - 43,550 (seat 15-7)
28. Cailin, Jin - 42,450 (seat 6-7)
29. Gipson, Keith - 42,450 (seat 9-3)
30. Raffay, Stefan - 41,650 (seat 12-5)
31. Johansen, Karsten - 39,750 (seat 16-8)
32. Reinkemeier, Tobias - 39,725 (seat 8-6)
33. Leviev, Alex - 39,350 (seat 15-5)
34. Langmann, Florian - 38,700 (seat 12-2)
35. Hinonen, Patrik - 38,675 (seat 15-6)
36. Gueorguiev, Atanas - 38,600 (seat 1-4)
37. Delly, Daniel James - 38,600 (seat 14-6)
38. Gonzalez Dominguez, Margarita - 38,300 (seat 14-5)
39. Perrault, Pascal - 36,700 (seat 11-6)
40. Tinoco Pablo Goncalves, Nuno Jose - 36,225 (seat 4-3)
41. Sjogren, Per - 36,200 (seat 11-5)
42. Mortensen, Carlos - 36,050 (seat 12-4)
43. Petersen, Alexander - 35,250 (seat 8-4)
44. Goual, Najib - 33,825 (seat 10-8)
45. Gombkoto, Tamas - 32,550 (seat 9-5)
46. Persson, Erik Magnus - 32,400 (seat 14-4)
47. Sacrispeyre, Patrick - 31,900 (seat 16-9)
48. Carvin, Michel Maurice - 31,600 (seat 11-8)
49. Shade Kruger, David - 30,875 (seat 2-2)
50. Salikaeb, Yury - 30,550 (seat 17-3)
51. Ryan, Daniel Richard - 30,525 (seat 3-6)
52. Besfort, Hani - 29,850 (seat 4-5)
53. Stal, Olof Jonatan - 29,200 (seat 1-6)
54. Lundenius, Martin - 28,950 (seat 3-1)
55. Blanco Puras, Angel - 28,175 (seat 1-9)

AVERAGE - 28,111

56. Trainer, Jody - 28,000 (seat 16-5)
57. Vinnicombe, Alan - 27,775 (seat 12-3)
58. Lopes, Bruno - 27,675 (seat 4-8)
59. Delaney, Robert Daniel - 27,350 (seat 14-3)
60. Vargas, Dani - 27,250 (seat 3-7)
61. Kostritsyn, Alexander - 26,600 (seat 6-3)
62. Gould, Peter - 26,300 (seat 2-9)
63. Rinaldi, Claudio Stefano - 25,425 (seat 14-9)
64. Franco, Candido - 25,250 (seat 3-2)
65. Kamatakis, Iliodoros - 25,250 (seat 5-5)
66. Alibert, Laurent - 24,825 (seat 6-2)
67. Feliciaggi, Jean-Jérôme - 24,775 (seat 11-4)
68. Teltscher, Mark Oliver Felix - 23,450 (seat 2-1)
69. Bouya, Nordine - 23,400 (seat 2-7)
70. Blanco Carrasco, Oscar - 23,300 (seat 17-9)
71. Tolokonnikov, Vitaly - 21,925 (seat 14-8)
72. Terrazas Ambite, Santiago - 21,725 (seat 16-3)
73. Biri, Balazs Gergely - 21,450 (seat 5-7)
74. Zenou, David - 20,950 (seat 5-9)
75. Khosravi, Pontus - 20,650 (seat 4-4)
76. Pedersen, Dan Bitsch - 20,525 (seat 11-7)
77. Alvarez Felgueros, Ruben (seat 20,350 (seat 17-5)
78. Szeremeta, Nicholas Tadeusz - 19,875 (seat 8-9)
79. Mathis, Rino - 19,575 (seat 3-5)
80. Keiner, Michael Erich - 19,450 (seat 16-7)
81. Tombs, John - 19,200 (seat 11-1)
82. Rintala, Voitto Aulis - 18,775 (seat 9-7)
83. Sfez, Eric Hai - 18,700 (seat 1-2)
84. Egemo, Christoffer - 18,650 (seat 3-4)
85. Tavernier, David Marie - 18,500 (seat 2-5)
86. Balsby, Jens Frost (seat 17,825 - 12-1)
87. Lauttamus, Juha Jaakko - 17,575 (seat 1-5)
88. Ilikyan, Valery - 17,500 (seat 10-9)
89. Cichocki, Grzegorz - 17,450 (seat 11-3)
90. Arnault, Antoine Bernard Jean - 16,550 (seat 12-6)
91. Lacasa, Kiko - 16,500 (seat 2-8)
92. Lamsa, Janne Lauri - 16,125 (seat 6-4)
93. Berg, Johan Henrik - 15,950 (seat 9-6)
94. Martin Garcia, Ismael - 15,700 (seat 16-6)
95. Kuremszki, Csaba - 15,675 (seat 1-7)
96. Ali, Baalbaki - 15,575 (seat 14-7)
97. Fougeron, Thomas - 15,375 (seat 16-3)
98. Smurfit, Alan - 15,225 (seat 17-7)
99. Iremark, Mats Erik - 14,625 (seat 9-8)
100. Giordano, Pete - 14,575 (seat 16-2)
101. Guerfi, Mesbah - 14,225 (seat 1-8)
102. Cuberos, Manuel - 14,150 (seat 6-1)
103. Neuville, Pierre Michel - 13,800 (seat 4-6)
104. Blake, Timothy - 13,800 (seat 10-7)
105. Isaia, Alessio - 13,300 (seat 14-1)
106. Zima, Grigory - 13,225 (seat 6-6)
107. Lagerborg, Tore - 12,900 (seat 2-6)
108. Kelopuro, Dami Karolus - 12,700 (seat 5-6)
109. Boubli, Jan - 12,600 (seat 12-9)
110. Bevand, Manuel - 12,375 (seat 3-3)
111. Popov, Alexey - 12,325 (seat 11-2)
112. Perala, Jukka - 12,250 (seat 12-8)
113. Klys, Miroslav - 12,050 (seat 10-2)
114. De Knijff, Martin - 11,850 (seat 1-3)
115. Kakahama, Barham - 11,775 (seat 17-6)
116. Collopy, James Francis - 11,275 (seat 5-8)
117. Gonzalez Alvarez, Oscar - 11,000 (seat 15-1)
118. Kagawa, Masaaki - 10,850 (seat 9-4)
119. Vaswani, Ram - 10,800 (seat 14-2)
120. Lotstrom, John Andersson - 10,475 (seat 2-3)
121. Vallo, Martin - 10,450 (seat 12-7)
122. Maistriaux, Jamel - 10,025 (seat 10-1)
123. Grigoruyants, Alexey - 9,550 (seat 2-4)
124. Vidal 14? - 9,125 (seat 9-2)
125. Alvarez Vidal, Andres Argimiro - 8,875 (seat 4-2)
126. Talens Forcada, Jose Maria - 8,700 (seat 5-3)
127. Giordano, Robert - 8,650 (seat 8-8)
128. Sionov, Mikhail - 8,350 (seat 17-8)
129. Farkye, Kofi - 8,025 (seat 3-9)
130. Alain, Roy - 7,600 (seat 15-3)
131. Patroncini, Massimiliano - 5,900 (seat 9-9)
132. Goodwin, Marc - 5,200 (seat 15-2)
133. Esfandiari, Antonio - 4,825 (seat 8-3)
134. Alacqua, Gino - 4,775 (seat 4-1)
135. Cazali, Robert Andre - 3,600 (seat 1,1)

Les joueurs commencent aujourd’hui aux blinds 300-600 ante 50.

Voici quelques tapis à la fin de la journée. Moyenne 25 633 jetons.

Raul Mestre 70,6 K

Erik Friberg 62,4 K

Kool Shen 28 K

Sitbon Choua 70 K (à 5 mains de la fin)

Jan Boubli 12,6 K

Robert Cazali 3,6 K

Danny Ryan 30,5 K

Jelassi Ramzi 46,1 K

Ram Vaswani 10,8 K

Guerfi Mesbah 14,2 K

Manud Bévand “Manu B” 12,4 K

Mark Teltscher 11,4 K

Margarita Gonzalez 42 K 

Yevgeniy Timoshenko 68 K

Steven Van Zadelhoff OUT

Ludovic Lacay OUT

En vrac voici une liste non complète de joueurs aux noms prestigieux:

Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Dario Minieri, Mike McDonald, Ram Vaswani, Bertrand Grospellier (Elky), Tim Vance, Theo Jorgensen, Vicky Coren, Marcel Baran, Thor Hansen, Chad Brown, Antonio Esfandieri, Alex Kravchenko, Juha Helpi, Boris Becker, Vikash Dhorasso, Surinder Sunar, Max Pescatori, Danny Ryan, Victor Ramdim, Chris Moneymaker…

Nous n’avons pas l’information du nombre de participants à ce Day 1B pour l’instant. On part à la pêche aux renseignements pendant cette première pause (fin du 1er niveau).

Daniel Negreanu

Boris Becker, très concentré pour sa première apparition

Joe Hachem