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The €500,000 prize pool was amply exceeded thanks to the €733,433 collected (including 6 tickets for the WSOPE Main Event worth €10,000). Tomorrow, 48 will return to the tables for the Final Day, hoping to get their hands on the trophy and the €100,000 first prize.
The fight for first place in the count, albeit indirect since the two protagonists were playing on different tables, was rather tight, with Andrei Piatrushchanka largely in the lead in the last levels of play and overtaken by Armenia's Valerik Malkhasian (photo above) at the photo finish:
"I'm thrilled, I didn't think I was the chip leader" - comments Valerik, who had actually glanced at the stack of Andrei Piatrushchanka (photo below) at the next table and realized he had a lot less.
The Belarusian has been involved in an insane 3-way showdown in which he found himself with 9-9 against 4-4 and K-K for a pot of around 13.5 million chips when the average tournament was around 3.5 million.
No surprises on the board until the turn, then a 9 river that sends him to heaven and sinks his opponent, the undisputed chip leader up to that point, down to 3 million. At the end of the day, Piatrushchanka took home a stack of 9,545,000, a handful of blinds shorter than Malkhasian with 9,900,000.
Third place in the count, with 8,860,000 there's the Spaniard Manuel Garcia Gonzalez (pictured above), who was at the table with Andrei Piatrushchanka after the last redraw and protagonist, together with the Belarusian, of some interesting spots.
The Top 5 is completed by the second Armenian in the ranking, Waagn Kaplanjan, who can boast 7,900,000 chips this afternoon, against the 7,585,000 of Portuguese Hugo Aca Lopes Enes Franco, fifth in the provisional count.
Six Frenchmen and five Italians still remain in the race: Sylvain Chaumy (7,420,000) and Antonio De Lucia (7,060,000) were the best exponents of their respective nations, occupying sixth and seventh positions in the count respectively. The list of 48 finalists in the France Poker Festival Main Event follows.
Unofficial Chipcount & Seat Redraw
POS NAME SURNAME NAT CHIPS TABLE SEAT
Valerik Malkhasian ARM 9.900.000 41 2
Andrei Piatrushchanka BLR 9.545.000 38 6
Manuel Garcia Gonzalez ESP 8.860.000 42 2
Waagn Kaplanjan ARM 7.900.000 42 7
Hugo Aca Lopes Enes Franco PRT 7.585.000 42 5
Sylvain Chaumy FRA 7.420.000 41 6
Antonio De Lucia ITA 7.060.000 40 6
Halim El Yaacoubi FRA 6.830.000 40 4
CHEREMOSH UKR 6.825.000 40 1
Zaki Hamani CHE 6.315.000 37 2
Radek Castka CZE 6.295.000 41 1
Gerti DEU 6.190.000 41 7
Profiler910 ITA 5.990.000 42 8
Yosef Boker ISR 4.715.000 42 6
Vladyslav Pohribnyi UKR 4.700.000 42 3
Jean Christophe Fechter FRA 4.500.000 37 4
Robert Pawel Goda POL 4.200.000 38 2
BJKO7 TUR 4.155.000 39 4
Marek Svacha CZE 3.490.000 39 1
David Sok FRA 3.425.000 42 4
Sebastian Andrzej Marzec POL 3.390.000 38 7
Andar Darayda DEU 3.25.0000 41 4
Martin Klein DEU 3.085.000 41 8
Gassan Azzam ISR 3.060.000 39 5
Fotios Katidis DEU 2.905.000 39 8
Lottinha DEU 2.535.000 39 7
Avi Cohen ISR 2.425.000 39 3
Philipp Woerndl AUT 2.300.000 40 8
Heiko Thomas Park DEU 2.255.000 40 2
Dimitri Benjamin Loge FRA 2.230.000 41 3
Haizei Wang CHN 2.190.000 39 6
Mario Maugeri ITA 2.160.000 40 7
Shai Avishai Tahori ISR 2.070.000 42 1
Whatever DEU 1.965.000 39 2
Petr Danek CZE 1.965.000 37 3
Andrii Stebelskyi POL 1.940.000 37 1
Codrin Paul Macovei ITA 1.830.000 38 4
Denis Lehmann DEU 1.820.000 40 3
Kurt Radinger AUT 1.700.000 38 1
Nadjim Haddad FRA 1.670.000 37 8
Eric Alexander Schuller DEU 1.610.000 41 5
Tomasz Kaleta POL 1.270.000 37 6
Inbar Shmuel Shavit ISR 1.230.000 37 7
Sebastian Florian Martens DEU 1.180.000 38 8
Marin Jerkovic HRV 1.150.000 38 5
Luciano Borghetti ITA 1.015.000 40 5
Hans Michael Joerg Weide DEU 1.010.000 38 3
Jursen Strommer AUT 785.000 37 5
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