Laurent Polito Leads PMU.fr WPT Paris Chasing Historic Third National Title
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Laurent Polito finished the day as chip leader with an astonishing 806,000. Stephan Ouzilou is in second with an almost as impressive 729,500 and some way behind them in third is Gregory Benac with 435,000.
This really was Polito��s day. He is the only player to hold two WPT National Titles, namely the PMU.fr WPT National Cannes back in May this year and the Euro Finals of Poker 2013, Paris and he had a spectacular day in the hunt for his third title.
For a short time it was a tousle between Polito and Stephan Ouzilou for the chip lead but Polito went on an absolute tear, twice busting two players at once for significant pots. In the first instance there was a three way all-in when Polito held aces against tens and jacks which propelled him to over 500,000. Not too long after that he got it in with queens against 
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and held to propel him to the 800,000 mark.
Ouzilou gained ground towards the end of the day but he couldn't quite find the big hands at the right time in the way that Polito did.
The three players who began at the top gradually fell away. Omar Lakhdari started in the lead but he ended up with 270,000. Gregory Fournier started in second place but failed to make Day 3, while Day 1a chip leader Guillaume Wilhelm managed to make it through with 288,000.
There were 181 players who started the day and 50 survived the seven one-hour levels to battle it out on Day 3 when the two Day 2s will merge. At stake is the WPT National title and first place prize money of �140,000.Second place will receive �94,500 with third getting �61,000. Tomorrow will be the money bubble day with 81 places paid and a min-cash worth �2,000.
Can Laurent Polito make it an extraordinary three World Poker Tour National titles? The only thing guaranteed in poker is that PokerNews will be there to bring you the coverage. Be sure to join us as the two fields finally join together with all the competitors finally in the same room at the same time.
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