The European leg of the World Series of Poker has begun on the table of the Casino Barrière in Paris, and we have already seen the first bracelet winner crowned in the form of the first ever WSOPE ladies champion. We have also seen the first flight of Event #2, the €1,000 + €100 No Limit Re-Entry, which is due to stretch over four days.
Event #1
The WSOPE started as most of us would expect with Event #1, and this year, it was also ladies first as the inaugural WSOPE ladies event took the honours. This €1000 + €100 event only attracted 65 entrants, but considering the overlap with EPT London, and this being the first ever WSOPE ladies event, I’d expect that number to significantly grow for next year.
The prize pool generated may have only been €62,400, but that didn’t stop the players giving this event the attention and effort any WSOP bracelet event deserves.
Well known Australian pro Jackie Glazier was the one to emerge triumphant after beating some stiff, mainly French, competition. She adds €21,850 to her back roll and her first WSOP bracelet.
After all the action, the final table looked like this:
- Jackie Glazier – €21,850
- Maryline Valente – €13,500
- Laurie Bismuth – €8,950
- Celine Bastian – €6,330
- Nathalie Odet – €4,770
- Sherrie Lindsey-jone – €3,800
- Gaelle Bauman – €3,200
- Anais LeRouge
A full final table report will be up later today.
Event #2
The €1000 + €100 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry Event #2 attracted 261 players for the first flight, which is less than the 295 players from Day 1a last year. This is probably down to the influence of EPT London, which only finished yesterday. I’d expect the numbers today to increase after allowing players to make the trip from London, and this event may actually have a higher number of unique entrants than last year when the final tally is in.
The day ended in a strange fashion for an opening flight as play was going to stop when either the field got down to 40 left, or the end of Level 9, whichever came first. in the end, both happened, the field got down to 40 with less than 10 minutes left to play in level 9, and it was decided that play should continue until the end of the level. The final survivors from Day 1a ended up numbering a mere 39, but as this is a re-entry event, most of the busted players will be back today.
Leading the chip counts from Day 1a is Niels Herrgodts, and as I’m unable to find any history of him cashing in live tournament play, appears to be new to the scene. He will return for Day 2 with 55,000 chips in his stack, nearly 15,000 more than his nearest rival, James Guinther.
The top ten chip stacks from Day 1a look like this:
- Niels Herrgodts – 55,000
- James Guinther – 40,800
- Quentin Jean LeComte – 38,700
- Iain Antony McLaughlin – 37,300
- Carl Hakan – 37,100
- Herbert Farber – 36,000
- Daniel Weinman – 33,100
- Tuan Le – 32,500
- Salvatore Bianco – 30,500
- Narendra Banwari – 30,200
Today is going to be taken up with action from the second flight of Event #2, and the next event to start will be the Mix Max Event #3 on Monday. We’ll bring you all the noteworthy news from Paris in tomorrow’s article.