Nathan Gozlan Leads EPT Deauville Main Event at End of Day 1A

Written by:
C Costigan
Published on:
Feb/01/2015
Nathan Gozlan Leads EPT Deauville Main Event at End of Day 1A

French player Nathan Gozlan is leading the 108 remaining at the end of Day 1a of the €5,300 EPT 11 Deauville Main Event. He has 148,500, just ahead of Sweden's Alexander Ivarsson with 145,800. Team PokerStars Pro Online's Ronan Monfort, Team PokerStars Pros Eugene Katchalov and Marcin Horecki plus PCA champion Dominik Panka are all still in. There were 199 entries today - and there are already 171 registered for Day 1b tomorrow.

VAN LEEUWEN WINS DEAUVILLE CUP FOR €62,400Please see pic below 
We often talk about tournament wins being life-changing money, but for 23-year-old Dutch student Tim van Leeuwen it couldn’t be more true. Leeuwen was down to his last euro when older brother Nils, who won the FPS Deauville Main Event here last year, suggested he spent his university break at the EPT Deauville Poker Festival. Van Leeuwen took the train to Normandy, joined 1,137 other players who had entered the five-day €300 Deauville Cup – and won it tonight for €62,400. If you’re a penniless student, that’s an awful lot of money, and van Leeuwen couldn’t be more thrilled. In total, there were 1,210 entries, creating a €348,480 prize pool. Among the 175 players who finished in the money was Moundir Zoughari, star of the French survivor-style reality TV show Koh Lanta, who finished 11th for €3,880.

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The EPT Deauville Poker Festival is taking place in an annexe of Casino Barrière (the Deauville International Centre) from January 28 - February 7, 2015.

Yet again, the EPT is joining forces with the national France Poker Series to host an 11-day, 47-event festival on the Normandy coast. The FPS Main Event started January 28, the FPS €2k High Roller started on January 31 and the €5,300 EPT begins today (February 1). In addition to the title and cash prize, the winner of EPT Deauville will receive an exclusive watch worth more than €5,000 from luxury Swiss brand SLYDE, the Official Watch Sponsor for EPT Season 11 Main Events and High Rollers.

More than 100 players have qualified for EPT Deauville Poker Festival including PCA 2014 champion Dominik Panka, FPS Amneville winner Ben Dobson, EPT7 London champion David Vamplew, Argentine star Ivan Luca, EPT7 Copenhagen winner Michael Tureniec, Joao Viera – who is still leading the EPT Player of the Year race - and TV producer Alexandre Amiel who finished 12th last year, plus EPT champions Anton Wigg, Jannick Wrang and Kevin MacPhee.

Team PokerStars Pros who are set to compete on Day 1b include Jake Cody (who won EPT Deauville in Season 6 for €847,000), ElkY, Christophe and Matthias de Meulder, WSOP Player of the Year George Danzer, Jan Heitmann, Julien Brecard and Marcin Horecki.

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