On aura beaucoup raillé, dans la presse et online, les capacités poker de Guillaume Darcourt. Le capitaine de la Team PMU, et accessoirement détenteur d’un titre WPT décroché en Roumanie il y a un an et demi, avait déjà fait taire ses détracteurs après un magnifique deep-run (meilleure performance française) lors du Main Event des WSOP cette année. C’était le point d’orgue d’un été démarré dans le doute et le goût de la catastrophe, enchaînant les éliminations rapides et les craquages en règle devant tant de variance.
Lors du Day 1B de l’EPT Barcelone, Darcourt a pris la tête des 473 joueurs inscrits (faisant monter le field total de l’EPT Barcelone à plus de 800 joueurs — un record historique), pointant en tête des deux Day 1 confondus, avec 195 300 jetons au total.
Derrière lui, en embuscade, Eugene Katchalov, qui confirme lui aussi son très bon été des World Series avec 153 000 jetons, mais aussi Daniel Cates —le joueur pro a beau être dans une tourmente autour de la triche online, il a assuré un beau show hier au Gran Casino— ou encore le pro Winamax Manuel Bevand, à 133 000 jetons. Retour des hostilités aujourd’hui à 14 h!
Guillaume Darcourt France 195,300
Vytautas Milvydas Lithuania PokerStars qualifier 172,400
Gerardo Rodriguez Forteza Spain 170,800
Benjamin Juhasz Hungary 165,800
Mario Adinolfi Italy 169,000
Eugene Katchalov United States Team PokerStars Pro 153,100
Dmitry Gromov Russia 152,200
Evgeny Zaytsev Russia 150,500
Leo Fernandez Argentina Team PokerStars Pro 148,600
Candido Gonçalves Spain 148,600
Victor Ionut Ghenadi Romania 144,200
Alejandro Sanchez Fernandez Spain 143,400
Arkadiy Tsinis United States PokerStars player 143,200
Daniel Cates USA 140,500
Raul Mestre Spain 139,400
Manuel Bevand France 133,700
Francisco Jose Torres Hermoso Spain 132,000
Carlos Yerbes Gonzalez Spain 130,400
Nikolas Liakos Sweden PokerStars qualifier 129,600
Jan Petersen Finland 129,600
Mattias Alberto Ruzzi Argentina 129,000
Mikhail Shakhnovich Russia 127,700
Toni Torsten Pettersson Spain 121,600
Saar Wilf Israel 118,600
Gustavo Julio Kein Argentina 118,400
Jose Angel Latorre Marina Spain 114,200
Marvin Rettenmaier Germany 114,200
Elliot Smith Canada PokerStars player 110,900
Matthias De Meulder Belgium Team PokerStars Pro 110,100
Mikel Allende Diaz Spain 108,000
Pierre Milan France PokerStars player 107,600
Svein Erik Kristiansen Norway PokerStars qualifier 107,500
Koen De Visscher Belgium 103,200
Kevin Stani Norway PokerStars qualifier 101,600
Julian Herold Germany 101,000
Denis Pisarev Russian Federation PokerStars player 98,800
Walid Bou-Habib Lebanon PokerStars qualifier 97,800
Tobias Reinkemeier Germany 97,600
Andre Manuel Barroco Portugal 97,600
Alberto Guzman Gomez Spain 96,800
Anton Kristinn Thorarinsson Ireland 96,100
Parviz Sadighi Tafreshi UK 96,000
Javier Martinez Gil Spain 93,300
Pascal Hartmann Germany PokerStars qualifier 92,400
Anthony Claude Picault France 92,000
Christopher Sparks USA 91,500
Rino Mathis Switzerland Team PokerStars Pro 91,100
Jean-Philippe Rohr France 90,100
Hocine Ait Eldjoudi France 89,500
Rumen Nanev Bulgaria 86,800
Vadzim Kursevich Belgium 86,400
Ervins Randers Latvia 85,900
Erik Scheidt Germany PokerStars player 85,400
Jakob Karlsson Sweden 84,900
Filippo Candio Italy 84,500
James Mitchell UK 84,100
Thomas Larsen Sweden 83,700
Marius Fritz Germany PokerStars qualifier 83,300
Maurizio Sepede Italy 81,600
Hugo Ricardo Severino Loureiro Portugal 81,200
Jose Mestre Lleida Spain 80,000
Alfio Battisti Italy 79,000
Vitaly Lunkin Russia 78,900
Marciano Rodriguez Spain 78,500
Diego Ivan Arbuello Argentina 77,700
Ralf Robin Bussman Sweden 77,400
Chris Lastiwka Canada PokerStars qualifier 77,300
Alvaro Santamaria Spain Estrellas TLB leader 75,800
Francisco Javier Ruiz Torres Spain 74,300
Juan Enrique Company Iborra Spain 73,600
Antoine Denis Junillon France 72,500
Jack Ellwood UK 72,000
Manuel Sadornil Spain 71,700
Alexios « J0hnny_Dr@m@ » Zervos Greece PokerStars Greek Challenger 71,600
Kut Fu Chow China 70,900
Francesco De Martini Italy 70,600
Michael Schurpf Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 70,000
Niels Jacob Klok Netherlands 67,900
Evrard Lionel Zaouche France 67,900
Nikolay Krasnikov Russia 66,000
Vadims Milovs Latvia 64,400
Jan Brandejs Czech Republic 64,200
Kristoffer Edberg Sweden 63,400
Olvedo Vincent Heinze Netherlands 63,300
Nicolo Calia Italy 62,900
Henri Luc Chapuis France 62,600
Kirill Zapletin Russia 62,400
Sigurd Andreas Eskeland Norway 62,200
Jose Miguel Esteban Nieto Spain 61,600
Alvaro Aspas Tarrazon Spain 61,300
Tome Moreira Portugal 60,400
Menny Ram Menashe Ben Haim Israel 60,200
Ruben Velasco Merino Spain 59,900
Jefri Islam Australia 59,800
Dmitry Vitkind Russia 58,000
Daniel Hernandez De Lorenzo Galvan Spain 57,700
Oleksandr Gnatenko Ukraine 57,600
Denys Larin Ukraine 56,300
Stieven Razab-Sekh Netherlands 56,100
Santiago Terrazas Spain 55,700
Manuel Cuberos Spain 55,500
Kamal Kumar Choraria UK 55,500
Pascal Lefrancois Canada 55,300
Chatzopoulos Apostolos Germany PokerStars qualifier 55,200
Marcos Fernandez Diaz De Espada Spain PokerStars qualifier 54,700
Ying Kit Chan China 54,600
Juan Manuel Pastor Spain Team PokerStars Pro 54,600
Allen Bari United States PokerStars player 54,400
Georgy Serov Russia 53,400
Lawrie Inman UK 53,100
Adam Balog Canada PokerStars qualifier 53,000
Irene Bennett Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 51,800
Nikolaus Teichert Germany 51,400
Filip Verboven Belgium PokerStars player 51,100
Diogo Veiga Portugal 50,200
Vladislav Varlashin Russia 49,400
Hasan Alexander Anter Sweden 49,300
Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 49,200
Wijnand Bakker Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 49,100
Sam Razavi UK 48,600
Massimilano Martinez Italy 48,300
Harry Kaczka USA 48,300
Boris Becker Germany Team PokerStars SportStar 47,800
Andres Artiñano Muñoz Spain 46,900
Ali Amelipour Germany PokerStars qualifier 46,400
Sebastian Blom Sweden 46,400
Philippe Saadani Ktorza France 46,400
Timothy Marsters Australia 46,200
Pierre Michel Larue France 46,200
Jose Luis Cordero Moreno Spain 46,000
Jeremie Corcia France 45,100
Toni Ojala Finland 44,900
Jaroslav Peter Czech Republic PokerStars qualifier 44,800
Arnaud Lombard France 44,400
Khiem Nguyen Germany PokerStars player 44,100
Pierre Christian Sikias Switzerland 43,700
Joseph Cheong USA 43,600
Bjorn Krischick Germany PokerStars qualifier 43,200
Jon Spinks United Kingdom PokerStars qualifier 43,000
Matias Ruiz Viñals Spain 42,700
Wojciech Jerzy Mazurkiewicz Poland 42,400
Ka Kwan Lau UK 42,400
Robert Andre Cazali France 41,800
Javier Contreras Spain 41,400
Fredrik Ogilvie United Kingdom PokerStars qualifier 41,000
Jorge Galino Lopez Spain PokerStars qualifier 40,200
Topi Johannes Palenius Finland 39,400
Xavier Joseph Carruggi France 38,400
Benjamin Babak Maerefat USA 38,000
Pius Heinz Germany 38,000
Hani El Assaad Canada 37,900
Sean Farshid Jazayeri USA 37,800
Ivan Demidov Russian Federation Team PokerStars Pro 36,600
Robin Lindqvist Sweden 35,500
Miahi Cristian Zaharia Romania 35,500
Erik Gustav Ekerot Sweden 33,700
Robert Firestone USA 33,600
Avram Bogdan Adrian Romania PokerStars qualifier 33,500
Alin Petrisor Pandilica Romania 33,200
Frank Stumpf Germany 33,100
Vedran Premuzic Croatia PokerStars qualifier 33,000
Wolfgang Haag Germany PokerStars qualifier 33,000
Haykel Cherif Vidal Spain 32,800
Juan Manuel Copani Argentina PokerStars player 32,800
Rob Stain United Kingdom PokerStars qualifier 32,700
Bennet Reynolds Hayes USA 32,400
Jan Bendik Slovakia PokerStars qualifier 32,200
Narendra Banwari USA 32,200
Giovanni Vicinanza Italy 31,600
Luca Fiorini Italy 31,500
Iosif Beskrovnyy Russia 31,300
Naim Tahan Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 31,100
Juan Maceiras Barros Spain PokerStars qualifier 30,800
Pratyush Buddiga USA 30,800
Joni Petteri Jouhkimainen Finland 30,100
Anders Andersen Denmark 29,500
Max Silver UK 29,500
Peyman Luth Germany PokerStars qualifier 29,300
Jordan Mitev Bulgaria 29,200
Ronald Lee USA 29,100
Alexandre Sikias Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 28,700
Javier Dosuna Cacho Spain PokerStars qualifier 28,700
Jesus Sabater Muñoz Spain 28,100
Diogo Borges Portugal 27,700
Karim Hamed Lehoussine France 27,500
Ljubisa Nedimovic Slovenia PokerStars qualifier 26,000
Frederic Bussot Fuentes France 26,000
Ilya Nikiforov Russian Federation PokerStars player 26,000
Andrey Danilyuk Russian Federation PokerStars player 25,700
Pedro Pocas Portugal 25,500
Jason Mercier United States Team PokerStars Pro 25,500
Jose Carlos Serralheiro Portugal 25,300
Renato Paolini Italy 25,200
Todd Charles Jatras USA 24,500
Michael Stephen Risman Canada PokerStars qualifier 24,500
Sami Kelopuro Finland 24,100
Pavel Grishkov Russia 24,000
Stefan Hendrickx Belgium 23,700
Luis Vale Portugal 23,500
Javier Etayo Spain PokerStars player 23,000
Lasse Sorensen Denmark PokerStars qualifier 22,900
Francisco Luis Lopez Hormigo Spain 22,800
Lucien Cohen France 22,700
Miguel Magan Tier Spain 22,600
Eli Albag Israel 22,300
Sergey Shchiptsov Russia 22,100
Victor Ramdin USA Team PokerStars Pro 21,400
Arnaud Mattern France 21,400
Francesco Brambilla Italy 20,900
Fabio Lanzafame Italy 20,800
Eduardo Alcouce Portugal 20,100
Henrique Luis Sobral Portugal 19,500
Asgar Dharamshi Ireland 18,500
Mehdi Keack France 18,500
Jonathan Duhamel Canada Team PokerStars Pro 18,400
Adriaan Schaap Netherlands 18,400
Juan Navarrete Azon Spain 18,000
Richard Schaapsmeerders Netherlands 18,000
Mathieu Georges Claude Al Gallienne France 17,600
Kenichi Takarabe Japan 14,700
Sam Chartier Canada PokerStars qualifier 13,900
Amirouddine Alibay Canada 13,500
Laurence Houghton United Kingdom PokerStars qualifier 12,800
Raul Paez Corral Spain 12,600
Jeroen Van Dam Netherlands 12,300
Atanas Gueorguiev Bulgaria 11,800
Ouri Aron Cohen France 10,700
Gheorghe Sandulescu Romania 10,100