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Partouche Poker Tour: Three French players among the finalist
The nine finalists who will compete for the title of the Partouche Poker Tour Cannes (PPT) were finally known during the 5th day of competition of this tournament. French players were particularly brilliant in this tournament which was played at home, in the poker room of Palm Beach Casino. Indeed, seven of them were practically qualified to integrate the final table. If Guerfi Mesbah, Benjamin Chevalier, Kamel Chhti and Ludovic Lacay were eliminated a few laps before the composition of the final table, Ilan Boujenah, Roger Hairabedian and Alexandre Coussy for their part, were qualified for the final meeting and are respectively in the 8th, 6th and 2nd position. So they will face Britain's Sam Trickett who will start the game as chip leader, the Kuwaiti Fouad Behbehani who will occupy the third place, the Dane Mads Wissing (4th), the Italian Mustapha Kanit (5th) and the two Ukrainians Oleskii Kovalchuk and Alexander Dovzhenko.
The poker community of France will be very well represented at the PPT November Nine scheduled to take place on November 12 and 13, 2011. Everyone knows the talent of Roger Hairabedian who is able to win a national victory with his 1,890,000 chips in hand. Ilan Boujenah also has an important asset thanks to his quite unique game. Indeed, he already got a good results in live tournaments at the age of 23, finishing 9th at the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris in 2010 and 2nd in the EFOP Gold Championship. As for Alexandre Coussy, he gained a great performance by playing online poker. Note that he was qualified during the Summer Sat of Lyon.
Source: Oliver JOHNSON
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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