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EPT San Remo - Day 1A report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2010-04-16 17:45
The Pokerstars sponsored EPT’s San Remo stop has always been one of the more popular ones of the tour. This year its status seems confirmed as Day 1A alone has already drawn 585 registrants. Given the fact that later day 1 flights pretty much always see more registrants, last year’s record of 1,178 may easily be broken.
Of all these starters, only 274 players remained at the final whistle, with Russia’s Alexey Rybin leading the pack with a stack of 213,100 chips. Manual Coppola of Italy was hot on the Russian’s trail with 212k, but no other player managed to accumulate more the 200k chips.
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PokerStars Pro was once again well represented. Dario Minieri managed to double up early on when his pocket Ks got lucky against Max Heinzelmann’s pocket rockets. He could not cash in on his early advantage though. The end of the day found the Italian in possession of a mere 41,800 chips, barely enough to carry him through to day 2.
Ludovic Lacay was another player to get lucky early on. He, however squandered his advantage completely and by the end of the day, he was gone from among the ranks of the contenders.
Isabelle Mercier, Oleksandr Vaserfirer and Anton Wigg managed to hold on to their stacks though, so we’ll see all these players return to the green felt on day 2 of the
poker tournament.
Anthony Lellouche and Allan Baekke also survived the day. Luca Pagano, PokerStars’ permanent EPT deep-runner, survived to day 2 as well, albeit on a stack that may not be enough for a deep run this time.
Mike McDonald had ceremoniously announced a while back that he was done playing poker. Wisely enough though, through his statement he left more than enough room for a possible return. Apparently his time away from the tables was up, as he showed up at the
EPT San Remo. Unfortunately for him, his run was a short one. He busted out and he will not be back for day 2.
Many of the players set to start on Day 2, including Peter Eastgate and Barry Greenstein will travel to San Remo by bus, because of the French railroad workers’ strike and because of air traffic being halted at London momentarily.
