Hugues Girard Leads Final Day in 2024 WPT Prime Paris €1,100 Championship

Photo: Hugues Girard

After a week of thrilling poker at Club Circus, Paris, and a marathon 13 hour session in Day 2, the final table is set for the record-breaking 2024 WPT Prime Paris €1,100 Championship Event, kicking off today, October 28 at 1 pm. local time. 

Only eight players remain out of 1,242 total entries, which created a €1,192,320 (~US $1,285,559) prize pool. All players are guaranteed a €24,500 (~US $26,416) payday, but will have their sights firmly set on the  €170,000  (~US $183,294) first place prize, added to which is a seat to the WPT World Championships at The Wynn, Las Vegas, this December.

In a final table packed full of home grown talent, Hugues Girard dominated the final stages of Day 2 and rose to the top of the leaderboard with a stack of 13,050,000, closely followed by Day 1b chip leader Etienne Silva de Oliveira (10,480,000).

Girard has close to $800,000 in recorded cashes and will be hoping to beat his biggest score of $137,000. His biggest threat beyond de Oliveira may well come in the form of Samuel Fournier and Kostya Zaks, two talented players who will be going for the win. Zaks in particular may feel his name is on the trophy after getting lucky to survive halfway through Day 2 against Conor O’Driscoll.

Photo: Samuel Fournier

Oleksii Ievchenko flys the flag for Ukraine and sits in fourth place with 8,115,000 in chips and is another player not afraid to play big pots. Mathieu Goncalves also plays a large stack of 9,150,000 after claiming a double knockout with queens at the end of Day 2 in what is a deep and tightly contested final table. 

Seat Assignments for the Final Day

Seat 1. Oleksii Ievchenko – 8,115,000 (54 bb)
Seat 2. Mathieu Goncalves – 9,150,000 (61 bb)
Seat 3. Baptiste Audoli – 6,280,000 (42 bb)
Seat 4. Ludovic Amblard – 1,665,000 (11 bb)
Seat 5. Etienne Silva de Oliveira – 10,480,000 (70 bb)
Seat 6. Kostya Zaks – 7,845,000 (52 bb)
Seat 7. Hugues Girard – 13,050,000 (87 bb)
Seat 8. Samuel Fournier – 5,525,000 (37 bb)

There are 58:52 minutes left in level 28 at blinds of 75,000–150,000 and a big blind ante of 150,000 with the conclusion of the event set to recommence at 1 p.m. local time. All levels remain 60 minutes long until the heads-up stage, during which the levels are cut in half to 30 minutes each.

The action of the final day will be live-streamed on the Twitch, YouTube and Facebook page of PMU Poker on a security delay of 30 minutes each. All WPT.com hand-for-hand updates will follow the very same delay.

 The remaining cash prizes the players are playing for are as follows:

1st:  €170,000*  (~US $183,294*)
2nd: €117,120  (~US $126,279)
3rd:  €85,200  (~US $91,863)
4th:  €63,700  (~US $68,681)
5th:  €48,700  (~US $52,508)
6th:  €38,100  (~US $41,079)
7th:  €30,400  (~US $32,777)
8th:  €24,500 (~US $26,416)

NOTE:  For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of €1.00 = US $1.0782.

* First-place finisher will receive a US $10,400 seat into the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas deducted from the prize pool.

Stay tuned to WPT.com for all your coverage of what is guaranteed to be an enthralling day of top quality poker.