we are down to 32 players on four tables of eight at the Pokerstars European Poker Tour. Here are (most of) their chip counts - you'll notice some very familiar names:


Jon Hewston (Eng) 400,000+ --
Theo Jorgensen (Den) 305,000 --

Jerome Douieb (Fra) 280,000 (PokerStars qualifier) --
Ram Vaswani (Eng) -- 275,000

Isabelle Mercier (Can) 225,000 --
Ken Johnson (USA) (PokerStars FPP qualifier) -- 210,000

Jeff Sharpe (Eng) 189,000 --
Malcolm Gorse (Eng) 145,000 (PokerStars FPP qualifier) --

Julian Thew (Eng) 135,000 --
Peter Roche (Ire) 130,000 --

Kirill Gerasamov (Rus) 128,000 --
Lex Veldhuis (Hol) 126,000 -- (PokerStars qualifier)

Julien Veyrac (Fra) 120,000 (PokerStars qualifier) --
Martin Greene (Eng) 119,000 --

Jerome Zerbib (Fra) 115,000 --
Mike Hermes (USA) 97,000 --

Ole Busborg Jensen (Den) (PokerStars qualifier) 89,000 --
Henrik Olander (Swe)

Patric Martensson (Swe) 62,000 --
Micky Wernick (Eng) 53,500 --

Bernard Greard (Fra) 52,000 --
Emile Petit (Fra) 47,000 --

Thomas Fougeron (Fra) 45,000 --
Jens Ogsaeter 42,000 --

Willie Tann (Eng) 35,800 --
Janne Airaksinen (Fin) 28,500 --

Stuart Nash (Eng) 23,000 --
Martin Pollak (Austria) (PokerStars qualifier) 21,000

Below you'll find the chip counts as players combine their flights and begin Day 2 of the European Poker Tour.


Jerome Douieb (PokerStars qualifier) 142,925
Claude Cohen 117,450

Theo Jorgensen 111,175
Frederik Hostrup 105,850

Tune Seidelin 99,775
Julian Gardner 99,200

Martin Green 89,125
Mike Hermes 84,600

Mats Iremark 84,500
Henrik Olander 83,500

Sami Torbey (PokerStars qualifier) 83,150
David Albertsson 75,100

Roy Brindley 73,925
Patric Martensson 73,325

Jerome Zerbib 73,100
Kristian Ulriksen 72,025

Jon Hewston 71,875
Brian Hansen 70,650

Bernard Greard 68,525
Torgny Andersson 67,450

Stuart Fox 66,600
Julian Thew 65,325

Julien Veyrac (PokerStars qualifier) 64,550
Isabelle Mercier (Team PokerStars) 63,650

Ram Vaswani 61,150
Jeff Sharpe 59,800

Ole Busborg Jensen (PokerStars qualifier) 59,200
Emile Petit 58,625

Peter Roche 58,375
Jennifer Mason 55,900

Torstein Iversen 52,625
Xanthos Charalambos 51,175

Willie Tann 50,150
Mickey Wernick 50,075

Patrick Bruel 49,350
Shelle Mullet 47,725

Lex Veldhuis (PokerStars qualifier) 47,050

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It is the end of Day 1 flight b of the Deauville, European Poker Tour.


There are 44 players remaining, with the queue being led by either Julian Gardner, from Manchester, England, or Tune Seidelin, from Denmark. They are at the 99,000 mark. Martin Greene is close behind on 90,000.


Peter Roche, from Ireland, is on 58,375; Julian Thew is on 65,325; Willie Tann is close to 50,000. Micky Wernick, who won the European rankings last year, is also near to 50,000 and Jen Mason is sitting behind a similar stack.


Brian Hansen and David Albertson, on 69,000 and 75,100 respectively, will also be sleeping soundly.


Isabelle Mercier is still going strong, but we lost Anina Gundesen late on.