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September 06 2011, Donnie Peters
Day 1a of the sector Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris came about on Monday on the Aviation Club de France. 100 and forty players ponied up the €7,500 buy-in for the primary day of the development. By the top of the day, the sphere was cut in half with 70 players remaining. Leading the charge is Mikko Sundell, who managed to bag up 203,800 in chips. He’s closely trailed by Yann Dion in second place with 201,400.With such a lot of poker players over in Europe for among the events occurring this month, there have been quite a lot of notables within the field. SOME OF folks who made an appearance but were unable to advance, were former WPT champions Roberto Romanello and Sam El Sayed, 2009 World Series of Poker November Niners James Akenhead and Antoine Saout, Arnaud Mattern and Kara Scott.According to the WPT Live Update Team, Romanello was eliminated in Level 2. He got the last of his money in with 
and was up against Hu Gangzhou’s pocket tens. The flop, turn and river ran out 



and Romanello was eliminated.Scott went out later within the day after having a little a roller-coaster ride along with her stack. First, she lost a big chunk of her chips in a set-over-set confrontation. After building back up, her 
lost to a short-stack opponent’s 
. Still, she fought back and wound up eliminating a player when her pocket fives outraced the player’s 
, but her run ended shortly thereafter. Scott got the last of her money in on a 

board with 
, but was up against a flopped full house for her opponent who was holding pocket sixes. No help came at the turn or river and she or he was eliminated.There are quite a few notable players moving onto Day 2. The WPT’s own Mike Sexton bagged up 74,000 in chips, Jani Sointula finished with 135,400, Marvin Rettenmaier built to 104,600 and Ludovic Lacay ended with 62,200. All of these players are above the typical of 60,000 while Joseph Cheong, Juha Helppi, John Eames and Sorel Mizzi couldn’t get much happening the day and finished with right across the starting stack of 30,000 or less.Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts
| 1 | Mikko Sundell | 203,800 |
| 2 | Yann Dion | 201,400 |
| 3 | Jean-Noel Thorel | 186,000 |
| 4 | Frederic Magen | 156,300 |
| 5 | Jani Sointula | 135,400 |
| 6 | Jerome Brion | 107,900 |
| 7 | Kent Lundmark | 107,700 |
| 8 | Pori Yacoub | 106,000 |
| 9 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 104,600 |
| 10 | Alexandre Brivot | 103,800 |
The event continues on Tuesday with Day 1b starting at 1400 CEST (1300 BST). The players who advanced from Day 1a will combine with the remainder players from Day 1b and return to action on Wednesday. Stay tuned to PokerNews for the recaps from each day.Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for all of your up-to-the-minute poker news.*Photo courtesy of the arena Poker Tour
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