Britain’s Daniel Smith didn’t have to cross the channel to get to Cannes but the Monaco resident arrived at the Casino Barriere Le Croisette full of hope for a good run at the 2014 Unibet Open, which surpassed even his wildest dreams as he made his first major final table and emerged as the champion… \u20ac88,000 richer for the experience.<\/p>\n
Of the 457 players who signed up in Cannes just 17 players returned for the final day and they included Unibet Open Barcelona runner-up Davor Pavic and French poker titan Alain Roy.<\/p>\n
Both made the final table along with Smith, who bounced back from a massive 22:5 chip deficit at the start of the heads-up play to beat Denmark’s Michael Nielsen to the title.<\/p>\n
In the final hand Smith raised to 320,000 from the button with pocket kings and Nielsen made it 945,000 with KH-QS. Smith four-bet to 2.2 million before Nielsen moved all in for 4.8 million and Smith snap-called.<\/p>\n
The A-7-6-4-5 board offered no help for Nielsen and saw Smith crowned Unibet Open Cannes champion. The Dane taking home \u20ac62,000 as runner-up.<\/p>\n
Desperately short for some time, Roy was the man to exit it third at the hands of Nielsen, who called with KS-QD when he shoved from the small blind with QS-9S. A king on the flop proved too big a hurdle for Roy to get over and he exited in third place for \u20ac40,000.<\/p>\n
Swede Pavic exited in fourth place, his QS-3C no match for Nielsen’s pocket tens, while Krzysztof Stuchlik from Poland finished fifth when Pavic flopped a straight to nullify his pocket queens.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Nicolas Le Floch exited in sixth, raising with JC-9C against Roy’s pocket jacks. The turn paired Le Floch\u2019s jack but gave Roy a full-house.<\/p>\n
Britain’s Vinod Jadav finished in seventh place after moving all-in with AH-10H against Nielsen’s KD-QC, the Dane flopping a king with Jadav needing a queen on the turn or river for a straight which didn’t materialise.<\/p>\n
Daniel Johansson finished in eighth place, losing a flip with AC-QC against the pocket sevens of fellow Swede Pavic, while the first elimination from the final table was Frenchman Giuseppe Zarbo, whose AC-KS was no match for Le Floch’s aces.<\/p>\n
Unibet Open Cannes (18-21 September)
\n1 Daniel Smith (United Kingdom) \u20ac88,000
\n2 Michael Nielsen (Denmark) \u20ac62,000
\n3 Alain Roy (France) \u20ac40,000
\n4 Davor Pavic (Sweden) \u20ac30,000
\n5 Krzysztof Stuchlik (Poland) \u20ac22,000
\n6 Nicolas Le Floch (France) \u20ac18,270
\n7 Vinod Jadav (United Kingdom) \u20ac14,600
\n8 Daniel Johansson (Sweden) \u20ac11,200
\n9 Giuseppe Zarbo (France) \u20ac8,800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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