A New Day in Deauville
Welcome to the northwestern coastal city of Deauville, France where the skies are blue and the temperatures chilly. It's comfortably warm inside the Casino Barrière, however, as staff and dealers currently prep themselves for the entrance of hundreds of poker players. And about a half-hour from now things will be heating up considerably more when cards go in the air for the first of two Day 1 flights of the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville Main Event.
Vadzim Kursevich of Belarus came away with the Main Event title here in Deauville last year, topping a field of 889 to claim a handsome €875,000 first prize. Most anticipate a similarly-sized turnout for this year's €5,000+€300 buy-in Main Event, with most of Europe's best plus many others from around the world expected to take part in this increasingly popular EPT stop.
Play begins at noon local time, with the schedule calling for eight 75-minute levels with a dinner break coming after Level 6. Join us then for the start of our coverage, and stick with us all week as we watch and discover who will be the next EPT champion.