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She's always on the list as hailing from Canada, but French blood runs through Isabelle Mercier's veins. And something about the air in France brings out the best in the Team PokerStars Pro: she made the final table here the last time we visited Deauville, and she's already off to...more

Blinds are 25-50 in the first level, introduced by tournament director Thomas Kremser and his French equivalent. The music played as the order was given to shuffle up and deal, a collection of musical numbers that was cut short by one player's request for silence during an above average...more

Back in the early days of the EPT, just about everything was smaller: the buy-ins, the prize-pool, the fields and - notably - the press corps and their accommodation. I remember sitting at a tressel table beneath a staircase at the Gran Casino, Barcelona, for instance, alongside only three other...more

You know you're at an EPT when on your way to work you can see ships passing on the horizon. The Bahamas, San Remo and Monte Carlo have this in common, Barcelona too, and now you can ink in Deauville to that list, where you don't even need to...more

Three years ago, when the Deauville date disappeared from the European Poker Tour schedule, there was an outpouring of first mild sadness, then widespread sorrow and then full-blown grief. Staff and players alike united to mourn the passing of inarguably the most distinctive poker venues and began referring to the...more

The last time this humble blog reported on an event from Deauville, France was February 12, 2006. The lady of the the French Coast was one of the players' (and, frankly our) favorite places to stop on the European Poker Tour. Since then, due to uncontrollable circumstances and the vagaries...more