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Join PokerStars now! Without doubt the table to watch right now is that of Ludovic Lacay and Martins Adeniya. The chip leader coming into the day, Adeniya, is one seat to the left of the current chip leader Lacay, the pair divided by the dealer about about 100,000 chips

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EPT8 Deauville: No messing as Lacay and Adeniya clean up

Join PokerStars now! Martins Adeniya and Toby Lewis are within a couple of feet each other. Both are young, British and undoubtedly good players but that’s where the similarities end today. Adeniya is sat bolt upright in his chair, right hand constantly riffling a small stack of chips from his enormous pile which is weighing in at around 550,000

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EPT8 Deauville: A tale of two stacks, Lewis down, Adeniya up

Join PokerStars now! At any EPT there are usually one or two tables rocking with laughter, or hearty conversation at the very least.

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EPT8 Deauville: Paul Berende, instigator and beer drinker

Join PokerStars now! There was a point today when a colleague came to us to say that four of the top six players were British. It didn’t seem right to blow our own trumpet, particularly when the movement at the top of the chip count page was so fluid through to the end. By the close of play that little statistic had become something less prosperous for the Channel raiders, but one name remained immoveable at the top, that of Martins Adeniya, who bags up 512,200 and the chip lead tonight

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Martins Adeniya out to clear lead heading into EPT Deauville Day 3

Join PokerStars now! There are few players as recognisable in poker as 1998 WSOP champ Scotty Nguyen. You can keep your Phil Hellmuths and Johnny Chans, when it comes to American poker moments there are few that beat that moment when the Vietnamese born pro induces the call from Kevin McBride that wins him the Main Event by saying “You call this one and it’s all over, baby”

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EPT Deauville: Scotty looking for a win

Join PokerStars now! There are mixed emotions when you sit down at a table to find that you’ve been drawn with a bit of a poker superstar. While there’s the downside of having a world class player at your table, hopefully to your right, you do have the opportunity of scalping them to claim lifelong bragging rights back home in your local €50/£50/$100 card room tournament.

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EPT Deauville: High Roller-a-go-go, ElkY, Bilokur, Gale and Ebanks clash

Join PokerStars now! The rebuy tournament. There’s not another creature like it in all of poker, which is enough to scare some players away all by itself. But for everyone else, there’s just something about the rebuy

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TCOOP: i.love.ri loves rebuys, wins Event 32, $5.50+R NLHE (3x-Turbo)

Join PokerStars now! Razz has a well-earned reputation as one of poker’s most painful variants, the sad brick-brick-brick of uncooperative late-street cards having caused immeasurable suffering to many who have played the game. Accelerate the pace of the game by spreading it as a turbo-style tourney, however, and the duration of such suffering becomes reduced considerably

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TCOOP: wintyara swiftly secures Event #33 title ($33 razz)

Join PokerStars now! A thousand poker players gathered around 100 tables on Wednesday morning for Event #29 of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a $109 buy-in no-limit hold’em Shootout. With five-minute levels and starting stacks of 5,000 (reset each round), the one among them who would win three ten-handed sit-n-gos — each likely to take between an hour and 90 minutes — would claim a nifty return of $18,250 on that $109 investment

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TCOOP: twirlpro runs circles around field, wins Event #29 ($109 NLHE [Shootout])

Join PokerStars now! Some players bust from a final table knowing that they’ve missed their only chance. Others are knocked down only temporarily, vowing to get back up and reach the promised land once again. And today, in Event 24, $109 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo (6-max), one of the latter group showed exactly what persistence can do for you in this game.

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TCOOP: Second time’s the charm for Sir_Don_John in Event 24, $109 PLO/8 (6-max)