So Nice!

We were treated royally that Saturday at the Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice, where the sun and players met for the fourth Super Satellite. From 2pm poker was played non-stop. Roland Rozel won out of more than 400 players and gave a wonderful performance.

Players received a warm welcome and the organisation was perfect. There could not have been a better start to the tournament in Nice, which is located on the English Promenade facing the Mediterranean Sea. What can one say about the big room reserved for the tournament then? Well it is quite simply one of the most beautiful rooms seen today, with a refined atmosphere and a Harlequin décor. All of these elements made for a wonderful day of poker! And it has been like this since the beginning of the Tour…


407 players took their places around the tables. Amongst them were some of the best poker players, such as Valérie Damidot, Estelle Denis, Virgine Efira, Alice Taglioni, Raymond Domenech and Fabrice Soulier. Partouche Poker Tour regulars such as Remy Biechel winner at Saint-Amand and François Tardieu winner at Lyon Vert came to try their luck in the extra tournament which took place at 9.30pm. It had 210 players and was brilliantly won by Jean-Pierre Lacombe (15,200 €) against Frédéric Brunet and Rachid Ben Rezkallah.

The structure of the Super Satellite was the same as the preceding ones: 5,000 chips and blinds of 25 and 50 at the beginning with increases every 25 minutes. And just like the PPT stops before, the crazy pace was a bit too rough for a number of players. So by one o’clock, 42 players were already knocked out.

Valérie Damidot, Virginie Efira and Fabrice Soulier were knocked out of the tournament early, but Estelle Denis, Raymond Domenech and particularly Alice Taglioni gave very good performances. Raymond Domenech left in 150^th place, followed quickly by his companion Estelle Denis. According to Alice Taglioni, she messed up several goes. There was no luck for the gorgeous actress who had already showed off her talent at the first Super Satellite in Saint-Amand. Some players stood out by the number of chips they had, such as Richard Loufrani with 40,000 chips and Jean-Paul Pasqualini with 33,000.

At first in this Super Satellite there was a real race between the main players in terms of chip count. Their names? Pierre Zurcher (170,000), Arthur Canadas (115,000) and William Saad (90,000). These three players shared the position of chip leader, even though they did not make it to the final table. The final table of the final 8 players was also full of talent: Sébastien Defrance, Roland Rozel, Marc Lindorfer, Bernard Grafouillere, Yuefang Jiang, Jean-Baptiste Cazaruc, Stéphane Blacas and David Bagnard. The final was won by Roland Rozel with Yuefang Jiang coming second. Well done!

So to conclude, this fourth Super Satellite was a success on all levels, from the welcome to the final table, and we had an amazing day of poker. The Palais de la Méditerranée was a dream venue in which to organise this fourth PPT stop in April. The next tournament is on the 24^th May in Aix-en-Provence. So come along, it will be great!









FINAL RANKING FOR THE NICE SUPER SATELLITE

Here is the final list of qualifiers for the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. Out of 407 participants at this fourth Super Satellite in Nice, 40 have won a ticket for the Grand Final in Cannes. The prizepool was 50,000 euros and the winner was Roland Rozel who won 15,000 euros. The other 39 players split the rest of the prizepool. Final ranking for the Nice Super Satellite with prizepool details:

1.Rozel Roland 15 000 euros
2. Jiang Yuefang 6 000
3. Defrance Sébastien 3 500
4. Lindorfer Marc 3 000
5. Pagnard David 2 500
6. Graffouillere Bernard 2 000
7. Blacas Stéphane 1 000
8. Cazaruc Jean-Baptiste 1 000
9. Bedrossian Franck 500
10. Canadas Arthur 500
11. Mansour Vincent 500
12. Srikah Hassan 500
13. Zurcher Pierre 500
14. Albert Laurent 500
15. Lopes Da Silva Carlos Manuel 500
16. Saad William 500
17. Goletto Stéphane 500
18. Clementi Claudio 500
19. Tsan Sap-Nhi 500
20. Aouizerat William 500
21. Kessas Benjamen 500
22. Larrouy Emile 500
23. Fernandes Brito Francis 500
24. Maisonneuve Sébastien 500
25. Barrière Pierre 500
26. Barret Yannick 500
27. Olive stéphane 500
28. Caffiaux Alfred 500
29. Lacharme Patrick 500
30. Slavicek Boris 500
31. Allion Fabrice 500
32. Muleta Patrick 500
33. Roperto Ludovic 500
34. Zeroual Fouad 500
35. Arnaudies Sébastien 500
36. Brizon Jean-Michel 500
37. Achab Sofiane 500
38. M’Jot Youssef 500
39. Flessia Cécile 500
40. Prados Antonio 500


NUMBER OF QUALIFIERS PER CASINO

1. Nice Palais de la Méditerranée 5
2. Le Lydia 3
3. Palm Beach Cannes 3
4. Saint-Amand les Eaux 3
5. Arcachon 2
6. Beaulieu 2
7. Juan les Pins 2
8. La Grande Motte 2
9. Le Lyon Vert 2
10. Aix-en-Provence 1
11. Bandol 1
12. Divonne 1
13. La Ciotat 1
14. Forges-les-Eaux 1
15. Le Pharaon de Lyon 1
16. Palavas 1
17. Pornichet 1
18. Royat 1
19. Salies de Béarn 1