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EPT Copenhagen – Day 1B report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-02-18 15:37
Day 1B of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop featured a starting field of 232 players. Though the size of the field may have been a little disappointing (the poker tournament failed to make its cap) its makeup was more than impressive. Day 1A had seen a pretty big concentration of “name” players hit the felt, but Day 1B surpassed even that.
Pokerstars’ Luca Pagano, Peter Eastgate, Freddy Deeb, Bertrand Grospellier and Interpoker’s Juha Helpi were only a few of the notables who took part in the Day 1B hostilities. The 423 participants gave birth to a total prize-pool of about $2.6 million.
Viktor Blom, the Swedish poker pro suspected of being Isildur1 was among the early victims of attrition. He failed to gain any sort of traction, slowly bled his chips away and eventually left.
Those who were hoping for a statement from him, confirming or denying that he was the famous Isildur1, the scourge of
Full Tilt Poker (who’s by the way on a spectacular upswing once again), had to leave disappointed. Blom is either quite clueless indeed or he knows how to keep the secret which has pretty much become a major part of Isildur1’s appeal.
Stuart Rutter did much better than that. He doubled up early at Pierre Neuville’s expense, at the end of a classic AA vs KK confrontation. Unfortunately for Neuville, there was no way he was getting away from that trap. He picked up the pocket Ks in the button, while Rutter woke up with his rockets in the small blind. Rutter did well for most of the day but ran out of steam a little, by the end of it.
Not everyone had as good a day as Rutter did though. Several of the “name” players dropped out of contention before the end of the day. Noah Boeken and William Thorson were among the victims. They were joined on the rail by Jesper Hougaard and Marc Naalden.
Luca Pagano – a perpetual
EPT menace, Bertrand Grospellier – himself a final table regular and Freddy Deeb all survived to play on day 2.
Sebastian Ruthenberg and Ilkka Koskinen finished atop the provisional chip standings, with nearly equal stacks. Peter Eastgate was not far behind them when the day was called.
