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Partouche Poker Tour Draws 579 Entrants

Winner To Get €1 Million As €4 Million Guaranteed Tournament Attracts 579 Players

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Chino RheemThe Partouche Poker Tour is underway at Casino Palm Beach, Cannes, France and 579 players have anted up the €7,500 + €750 buy-in to more than meet the €4 million guaranteed prize pool.

The main event saw entrants down significantly on last years event which attracted 764 players and was won by Vanessa Selbst who took down €1.3 million in a controversianl tournament which saw Ali Tekintamgac ejected from the final table for allegedly cheating.

Selbst is still in the running going into day two while recent Epic Poker League winner David “Chino” Rheem is among the chip leaders.

Notable chip counts going into day two include:

David “Chino” Rheem — 123,300

Olivier Busquet — 113,000

Freddy Deeb — 108,600

Arnaud Mattern — 102,500

Tobias Reinkemeïer — 99,100

Vanessa Selbst — 86,200

Antony Lellouche — 69,300

Jason Mercier — 68,400

Daniel Cates — 64,700

William Thorson — 57,500

Michael Tureniec — 50,200

Alex Kravchenko — 48,800

Ludovic Lacay — 43,000

Davidi Kitai — 38,100

Antonio Esfandiari — 23,900


There were also a number of high profile eliminations including Jake Cody, Roberto Romanello, Michael Mizrachi, Robert Mizrachi, Phil Laak, David Williams, Fabrice Soulier, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Jennifer Tilly, Surinder Sunar and Leo Margets,

Sixty-three players will get paid from the prize pool this year. The payouts are:

1: €1,000,000
2: €600,000
3: €379,760
4: €300,000
5: €230,000
6: €190,000
7: €160.000
8: €130,000
9: €100,000
10-12: €70,000
13-15: €45,000
16-18: €30,000
19-27: €24,000
28-36: €20,000
37-45: €17,000
46-54: €14,000
55-63: €12,000

Check back at CardPlayer.com early next week for the result of this tournament.