EPT8 Coverage - Deauville

EPT8 Deauville - January 31 - February 6, 2012 - Event Coverage

On this page you will find Player Lists, Gallery Photos, Payout, Side Events and Final Table from the event.

For more information, please see the EPT8 Deauville event page.

Full reports from EPT8 Deauville are on the PokerStars blog.

Player Lists

Gallery

Payout

Payout

PositionNamePrize (€)Status
1 Vadzim Kursevich 875,000  
2 Paul Guichard 557,000  
3 Vuong Than Trong 328,000  
4 Yorane Kerignard 260,000  
5 Bruno Jais 200,000  
6 Olivier Rogez 155,000  
7 Luca Pagano 110,000 PokerStars Team Pro
8 Mick Graydon 67,200  
9 Sergey Baburin 50,000  
10 Etienne Moudaress 50,000  
11 Nikolaus Teichert 37,500  
12 Ignat Liviu 37,500  
13 Rob Stain 30,000  
14 Chris Brammer 30,000  
15 Denis Cheremisin 26,000  
16 Artem Litvinov 26,000  
17 Christian Togsverd 23,000  
18 Rumen Nanev 23,000  
19 Andre Corredoira 23,000  
20 Antonio Guerrero 23,000  
21 Marc Inizan 23,000  
22 Patrick Nataf 23,000  
23 Kevin Vandersmissen 23,000  
24 Karim Lehoussine 23,000  
25 Herve Boulan 20,000  
26 Julien Ehrhardt 20,000  
27 Yoni Journo 20,000  
28 Herve Halfon 20,000  
29 Bernhard Mossner 20,000  
30 Koen De Visscher 20,000  
31 Mikael Guenni 20,000  
32 Mikhail Lakhitov 20,000  
33 Sergio Castelluccio 17,000  
34 Michael Dogliani 17,000  
35 Jason Hallee 17,000  
36 Heinz Kamutzki 17,000  
37 Benjamin Saada 17,000  
38 Gereon Sowa 17,000  
39 Michel Dubert 17,000  
40 Costa Bataille 17,000  
41 Andre Andrade 15,000  
42 Samphane Phomveha 15,000  
43 Martins Adeniya 15,000  
44 Jean-Jacques Mars 15,000  
45 Julian Kabitzke 15,000  
46 Mohsin Charania 15,000  
47 Agris Klaise 15,000  
48 Balazs Botond 15,000  
49 Mark Jansen 15,000  
50 Christophe Rusca 15,000  
51 Jean-Pierre Lacombe 15,000  
52 Jean Marc Rigaill 15,000  
53 Ondrej Vinklarek 15,000  
54 Yury Kerzhapkin 15,000  
55 Anton Ionel 15,000  
56 Pierre Barthelemy 15,000  
57 Tobias Peters 13,000  
58 Ludovic Lacay 13,000  
59 Julien Claudepierre 13,000  
60 Toby Lewis 13,000  
61 Marchel Masaladzhiu 13,000  
62 Alexandre Amiel 13,000  
63 Brahim Oubella 13,000  
64 Jean Yves Malherbe 13,000  
65 Olivier Ferrage 13,000  
66 Jean Charles Valois 13,000  
67 Simon Taberham 13,000  
68 David Lichentin 13,000  
69 Pierre Guillaume Calamusa 13,000  
70 Fehmi Cherif 13,000  
71 Leandre Omeir 13,000  
72 Mihai Manole 13,000  
73 Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes 11,000  
74 Yannick Massa 11,000  
75 Pierre Drochon 11,000  
76 Suat Uyanik 11,000  
77 Abdel Kader Boukbir 11,000  
78 Chris Karagulleyan 11,000  
79 Niclas Martinsson 11,000  
80 Bartosz Kocinski 11,000  
81 Zbib Ayman 11,000  
82 Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu 11,000  
83 Anthony Pacini 11,000  
84 Raphael Kroll 11,000  
85 Ismail Erkenov 11,000  
86 Grzegorz Derkowski 11,000  
87 Denis Patout 11,000  
88 Sebastien Comel 11,000  
89 Marius Torbergsen 9,000  
90 James Dempsey 9,000  
91 Guillaume Wilhelm 9,000  
92 Todd Terry 9,000  
93 Benjamin Saboy 9,000  
94 Paul Berende 9,000  
95 Eric Sadoun 9,000  
96 Dan Djorno 9,000  
97 Pavel Perfilov 9,000  
98 Kirill Zapletin 9,000  
99 Marc MacDonnell 9,000  
100 Alexander Perevoruha 9,000  
101 Marius Pospiech 9,000  
102 Gabriel Houle Morin 9,000  
103 Sylvain Taddei 9,000  
104 Sven Ellrich 9,000  
105 Marko Neumann 7,500  
106 Yohann Aube 7,500  
107 Jean Louis Perez 7,500  
108 Seth Davies 7,500  
109 Frederic Brunet 7,500  
110 Yoann Amaudry 7,500  
111 Julian Ferey 7,500  
112 Mikael Johansson 7,500  
113 Alain Roy 7,500  
114 Alex Meierhofer 7,500  
115 Guy Tomaselli 7,500  
116 Mustapha Kanit 7,500  
117 Eric Fourniols 7,500  
118 Douglas Ferreira 7,500  
119 Mark Emberson 7,500  
120 Lucille Cailly 7,500  
121 Philippe Ktorza 7,500  
122 Matthieu Lamagnere 7,500  
123 Slobodan Bjelobrk 7,500  
124 Andreas Larsson 7,500  
125 Rodrigo Milo Scartezini 7,500  
126 Mathieu Biague 7,500  
127 Christophe Denizart 7,500  
128 Ilan Boujenah 3,750  
129 Eric Nhouyvanisvong 3,750  

Side Events

Final Table

Final Table

EPT DEAUVILLE – FINAL TABLE PLAYER PROFILES

Seat 1: Bruno  "bebesse1" Jais, 49, Paris - PokerStars qualifier.fr  - 3,450,000
Manager of a Paris PR agency, Jais has been playing poker for nearly 20 years including annual trips – since 2002 - to compete in the World Series in Las Vegas. He plays both cash games and live tournaments and, occasionally, online. His favourite game is PLO8. Jais actually qualified thanks to a miss-click. He was planning to compete in a €10 tournament on PokerStars.fr but accidentally registered for a €500 satellite to Deauville instead – and he only had a €501 bankroll! Besides poker, Bruno devotes much time to golf and his family.

Seat 2: Mick Graydon, 26, Dublin, Ireland - 960,000
Although his friend Team PokerStars Pro Jude ‘j.thaddeus’ Ainsworth may be the better known Irishman, Mick Graydon is certainly no slouch at the poker table; the $210,107 he’s won in live tournaments is dwarfed by the $1,126,450 he’s won in online tournaments at PokerStars under the name ‘BIGMICKG’. Graydon was the first player in Ireland to achieve Supernova Elite status, a testimony to his discipline and skill at the tables, although he’s since embraced multi- rather than single-table tournaments.

“I used to play sit-and-gos but I made the transition to tournaments two years ago. I’ve played every EPT this season. It’s brilliant to make the final table. It’s why we play poker,” said Graydon, who was unlucky enough to lose with kings to Ronny Kaiser’s ace-king for the chip lead at EPT Tallinn. Kaiser went on to win the event and €275,000 while Graydon bust in 24th for €7,700. The online qualifier is guaranteed at least €67,200 here at EPT Deauville, his third cash of the season, but with a wealth of virtual experience it would be wrong to write off the short stack.

“Playing a lot online you learn how to play short stacked. I think I’m very strong at that so I won’t be making too many mistakes,” said Graydon.

Seat 3: Olivier Rogez, 34, Paris, France – 4,415,000
Rogez has never cashed in a tournament in his life, and won his seat in a €770 live satellite in Deauville a month ago. Rogez, 34, who runs an office cleaning business in Banlieu, Paris, is amazed he's gone this deep - but is determined not to get flustered. He said: "I'm very very happy. I didn't think I would get this far. Today was a lot of stress but now I'm going to rest and come back tomorrow calm and focused."

Seat 4: Vuong Than Trong, 21, Paris, France - 2,570,000
Computer science student Than Trong discovered poker two years ago at a party with friends. He mainly plays mid-stakes online cash games using the screen-name "Canard_laque" but decided to take part in EPT Deauville on the eve of the tournament after being persuaded by his friend Basil Yaïche that he could do well. Throughout the event, he’s been supported by members of the Club Poker French poker forum as well as gaining valuable advice on tournament play from experts such as Flavian Guenan and Clement Thumy. If he does well at the EPT Deauville final, he plans to take part in a lot more live events, as well as continue with his university studies.

Seat 5: Vadzim “VadziMoney” Kursevich, 24, Minsk, Belarus  - 5,670,000
Vadzim Kursevich turns 25 on Wednesday – and already has a lot to celebrate having reached the EPT Deauville final table second in chips. Kursevich has been playing poker for five years and normally plays live PLO ring games and MMTs. He also competes in the big online tournament series – and was involved in a five-way chop in last year’s WCOOP Main Event for a $750,000 payday. He has been proudly wearing his WCOOP final table jacket throughout EPT Deauville. His biggest live result was third place at EPT Berlin last season for €300,000 and he also came 28th in this season’s EPT Barcelona event. He has played around eight EPTs in total. Away from poker, Kursevich likes to unwind by watching ice hockey and singing karaoke.  Regarding tomorrow’s final, he said: “I feel pretty comfortable – and ready to compete against my opponents. I’ve got some chips so we will see.”

Seat 6: Paul "OMGpoloker06" Guichard, 19, Nice, France –PokerStars qualifier - 5,955,000
Guichard, who won his seat to EPT Deauville, is an up-and-coming player who is already getting good results on PokerStars.fr.  He started playing poker with friends when he was 13. Once he could go online, he only made two deposits before he building a healthy bankroll. He also started playing live and once he graduated from high school, he decided to dedicate himself to poker and tennis. He says if he had to stop playing poker, then he’d resume his career as a tennis player. His online winnings already total $140,000 including €13,000 for fourth place in the €500 PokerStars.fr “All Star Game".

Live, his best result was winning a side event in Cannes last September for €15,000. Guichard says he owes much to Clement Thumy, his coach for the last two years already. This was Guichard’s first EPT but he says if he finishes in top four tomorrow, he’ll plans to join the live poker tournament circuit.

Seat 7: Luca Pagano, 33, Milan, Italy – Team PokerStars Pro - 2,010,000
Pagano was one of the very first members of Team PokerStars Pro, joining in shortly after the very first EPT Deauville event in season 1 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour. Before taking up poker, Pagano studied computer programming and also dabbled in the stock market. After discovering PokerStars, Luca began playing at the free money tables. He swiftly progressed to real money games and hasn’t looked back since. He’s clocked up numerous cashes in PokerStars’ biggest tournaments and also won countless amounts of money at the high stakes cash tables.

But it’s live tournaments where Pagano has really made his name. He has a record 20 cashes in EPT Main Events and this is his seventh EPT final table appearance. His first was also here – at the very first EPT Deauville in Season 1.

Pagano and fellow Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier have been juggling first and second place in the EPT All-Time Tournament Leaderboard for years (although Pagano’s performance here in Deauville will certainly put him back on top.)

Pagano’s best live result was sixth place at the EPT4 Grand Final for €337,000; he also came sixth at EPT Dortmund (€153,000) and sixth again at EPT Prague (€100,000) as well as numerous other deep runs. But it was on home soil that the popular Italian finally snagged a major tournament title when he took down the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour event in San Remo last July for €210,000. Pagano has nearly $2 million in overall live tournament earnings and currently lies sixth on Italy's all-time money list. Pagano is being supported in Deauville by his fiancée Elena.

Seat 8: Yorane "viirusss” Kerignard, 26, Aix-en-Provence, France  - 1,680,000
Yorane started playing poker after watching a documentary on television in 2007 featuring French singer and film star Patrick Bruel playing against online qualifiers. The 26-year-old industrial design graduate plays on PokerStars under the username "viirusss". Favouring MTT events, Kerignard’s first live cash came in 2009 when he finished fifth in a small buy-in event in Cyprus. But just five months later, he hit the big time, finishing fourth in the Season 6 EPT Copenhagen Main Event for DKr 1,050,000 (around €120,000). The biggest cash of his career however came last October when he finished fourth at EPT San Remo for €130,000. He’s also had a number of good EPT side event results including third in the Season 6 EPT Grand Final €1k NL event and fourth in the €2k event the following season. Kerignard spends most of the year in Marrakech, Morocco, which allows him to play on PokerStars.com. Online, his best result was runner-up in the PokerStars Sunday 500 for $78,500; he also won the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $70,000 in 2009.