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2010 EPT Deauville: Eastgate, ElkY Among Final 24


Laetitia Casta is impressed with what she's seen from her countrymen on the poker circuit in recent years.

Day 4 of the 2010 EPT Deauville wrapped, with the field now down to 24 players.

The overnight chip leader is Teodor Caraba with 3,200,000. He’s followed by George Secara with 1,517,000.

A few big names are still among the big stacks. 2008 WSOP Main Event champ Peter Eastgate is stacked at 1,211,000, former EPT winner Mike McDonald has 1,183,000, and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier takes 1,056,000 to Day 5.

On a side note, hats off to all of the Frenchies like EklY showing up and playing well in the homeland. If the French army last century was made up of the likes of ElkY, Antoine Saout, and Benjo, well, you know.

Also still remaining are Freddy Deeb (628,000) and Shane Schleger (584,000).

Get full chip counts here.

In somewhat related poker news, 24 people entered the $100,000 High Rollers event at the Aussie Millions. Eight remain and five will cash. Jonathan ‘xMONSTERxDONGx’ Karamalikis is the chip leader. Also remaining are Dan Shak, Barry Greenstein, Phil Ivey, Tony G, and Howard Lederer. First place banks $1.2M. Get full chip counts here.

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Guy with Girls’ Name Leading 2008 Partouche Poker Tour


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Laetitia Casta is from France, where the Partouche Poker Tour is being played right now. A hoh hoh hoh!

We’re really, really trying to stop ripping the French so much. It’s too easy. We have to keep reminding ourselves that there are actually great things about the country. Topless beaches. Wine. Art. Really, France is great all around…except the people (except for Benjo, he’s all right).

The one (and seriously only) redeeming quality of French people is their love of poker. Which brings us to the 2008 Partouche Poker Tour event in Cannes. Good pull of top pros and a first place prize of over $1.4M USD.

Day 2 just wrapped and only 48 remain. A couple of dudes with chicks names (although not HOT chick names like Shannon Shorr has…man, if someone approached us a few years ago and said, "Hey someone named Shannon Shorr wants to bang you," we’d say, "Bring it on!" sight unseen…good thing that never happened) lead the way, as Patrice Sitbon and Fabrice Nkoa are stacked at 867,100 and 660,700, respectively.

Big names pros remaining include Gus Hansen (583,800), Robert Mizrachi (453,000), Noah Schwartz (138,200), and short-stacked Scotty Nguyen (20,800).

Get a full recap here.

In unrelated Partouche news but somewhat related tournament news, Robert Varkonyi did not win Event #2 at the Borgata Poker Open. Read here.

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