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EPT Copenhagen – Day 1A report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Thu, 2010-02-18 06:31
A snowy Copenhagen played host to Day 1A of the
EPT’s Danish stop. A pretty impressive starting field of 191 players showed up for the first one of the Day 1 flights. 8 blinds levels were waded through on this day, at the end of which a clear front-runner emerged: Canada’s Andrew Pantling managed to amass a stack of 155,800 chips, by far the biggest castle of chips in the event so far. Nobody really managed to even approximate his performance, although a slew of very potent opponents did survive the action and secured a Day 2 pass.
Johnny Lodden was present at the green felt, together with
PokerStars’ Arnaud Mattern and Dario Minieri. Annette Obrestad, Peter Hedlund, Jan Skampa and Jeff Server were other familiar faces in the poker tournament.
Obviously anxious to start chipping up, the field got off to a flying start, which meant that some of the participants would be quick to achieve the exact opposite of that goal. Alexandr Beresnev was one of those less fortunate, as he managed to double up Ian Skampa in the very beginning. It was a classic perfect hand situation as both players made a flush, and Skampa’s A-high one trumped Beresnev’s K-high.
Thomas Bichon, team PokerStars pro’s newest member, shared Beresnev’s fate. An
online poker player who won PokerStars’ “Job 2 Stars” promotion and who had thus secured a €100k salary on top of a bunch of live event buy-ins, Bichon never got any traction on Day 1A. He began bleeding chips from the get go and he suffered through the tournament right up to his demise.
Annette Obrestad looked like she was going to chip down rather than chip up in the early going too, but she managed to get things going eventually, and after the dinner break she even climbed to 61k chips to secure a comfortable ride into Day 2.
Thomas Kabrhel was one of the few “name” players who failed to survive to day 2. Jeff Sarwer was bounced as well. Eventually, 113 players made it past this first hurdle, and there are more than 200 contenders registered for Day 1B. This means that the starting field will surpass the 400 player mark.
