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EPT Copenhagen – Day 2 report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2010-02-19 05:36
The second day of the
EPT Copenhagen Main Event hosted a massive field of 243 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors. Due to the large number of “name” pros registered for the poker tournament, and due to the fact that they survived their Day 1 flights in scores, Day 2 saw large numbers of professionals too.
Canada’s Andrew Pantling started the day with the chip lead, but Peter Eastgate and Sebastian Ruthenberg were both hot on his heels.
Interpoker’s Juha Helppi, Freddy Deeb and the SNG king, Bertrand Grospellier were all among the survivors too.
Day 2 was not an auspicious one for Pantling at all. He struggled from the very beginning and eventually he squandered all his chips, heading to the rail before the dinner break. Many of the “name” pros joined him there. Jens Kyllonen, Arnaud Mattern, Dario Minieri, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Sami Kelopuro and Johnny Lodden were all eliminated. Luca Pagano, the Italian whose presence at the top of the leader boards is something all railbirds take for granted, failed to make it past the Day 2 hurdle too.
Roberto Romanello was the player who made the biggest progress through the day. He started out as one of the short-stacks with 19,000 chips and he became the chip leader at one point. Though he failed to hold on to the top spot, he did finish with a massive 249,200, good enough for a top 5 spot.
Richard Grace was another climber. He doubled up against Lam Son Nguyen at the end of a typical perfect hand: he made quads to crack Nguyen’s straight. At the end of the day, he still had 206,900 of those chips. Kristoffer Thorson had the chip lead too at one point, but he got overtaken by Stig Rossen, the Dane who ended up in 3rd place. Second place went to Belgium’s Fabian Gentile.
Hungary’s Csaba Toth, an
online poker qualifier, ended up with the chip lead at the end of day 2. He amassed a stack of 561,900, head and shoulder above the rest of the field.
76 players survived Day 2, and with the money bubble set to 57th place, Day 3 is likely to feature some pretty tight early action. Only 20 more players need to be bounced for the remaining survivors to strike gold.
