{"id":2030394,"date":"2016-09-26T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2016\/09\/26\/france-poker-series-gabriel-nassif-crowned-in-deauville\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:18:49","slug":"france-poker-series-gabriel-nassif-crowned-in-deauville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2016\/09\/26\/france-poker-series-gabriel-nassif-crowned-in-deauville\/","title":{"rendered":"France Poker Series: Gabriel Nassif crowned in Deauville!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deauville, France’s poker stronghold! This week, the Normandy town of Deauville played host to the France Poker<\/a> Series in the Casino Barri\u00e8re’s legendary Salon des Ambassadeurs, just a stone’s throw from the Hotel Normandy<\/a>. 615 players competed in the main event, which cost \u20ac1,100. The structure of the tournament was superb. The Barri\u00e8re and PokerStars teams did a superb job on this festival, without a single false note. <\/h5>\n

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Numerous figures from the circuit made the trip, including PMU Team Pro Erwann Pecheux<\/a>, his compadre Pierre Merlin, the inescapable ElkY, who finished 12th, and Betclic player Benjamin Pollak<\/a>, who took a fine 4th place for just over 39,000 euros. French poker pioneer Bruno Fitoussi was also there. <\/h5>\n
In addition to the main tournament, numerous side tournaments were organized. The casino terrace was open, and playing a tournament in September is a very pleasant experience. Streaming of the Final Table was particularly well attended, with over 3,000 spectators on average. <\/h5>\n

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Nassif, heavily favored in chips, had to battle hard against his ultimate opponent Kader Medjahed. Medjahed took second place on the podium with a prize of \u20ac70,380. FPS festival commentator Gabriel Nassif wins latest France Poker Series. PokerStars recently decided to rebrand its tournaments. This latest FPS also marks the departure of Julien Br\u00e9card, a key figure at PokerStars.fr. <\/h5>\n

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Ranking :<\/h5>\n
1 – Gabriel Nassif \u20ac 113,030
\n2 – Abdelkader Medjahed \u20ac 70,380
\n3 – Fabrice Casano \u20ac 50,360
\n4 – Benjamin Pollak \u20ac 38,970
\n5 – Philippe Le Touche \u20ac 30,700
\n6 – J\u00e9r\u00f4me Le Flohic \u20ac 24,030
\n7 – Julien Baldassarre \u20ac 17,770
\n8 – Laurent Brach \u20ac 12,220
\n9 – Sofiene Belaid \u20ac 9,620<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deauville, France’s poker stronghold! This week, the Normandy town of Deauville played host to the France Poker Series in the Casino Barri\u00e8re’s legendary Salon des Ambassadeurs, just a stone’s throw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":944493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}