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EPT Snowfest – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-03-25 02:17
The second day of the EPT’s Snowfest Main event saw 256 survivors belly up to the tables, looking to play down as close to the money bubble as possible. That objective was pretty much achieved by the end of the day. The 86 survivors managed to close in on the money bubble nicely. Johannes Strassmann was the man of the moment. He managed to secure the chip lead when all was said and done on Day 2, having 747,000 chips bagged for the following day’s hostilities.
Strassmann’s day started out on the right foot: he picked up a pair of Js then hit a set on a board of Q,J,4, which gave another opponent a two pair. Strassmann’s all-in was called by Stefan Fuchs too, who’d picked up pocket rockets. Strassmann’s set held and he tripled up to thrust himself among the chip leaders. He took care of
PokerStars’ Florian Langmann next, and continued his dominance scoring a whole bunch of other eliminations till the end of the day.
Another player who had an excellent day 2, was Maxim Lykov. Lykov won the EPT’s Kyiv Main Event last season, and he’s been on the warpath ever since, hovering close to the top of various
poker tournaments in pursuit of another title. He amassed a stack of 575,000 chips, well enough for third place on the provisional leader board.
Hungarian player Richard Toth – by no means a newcomer to tournament poker himself – ended up in second place, on a stack of 584,500 chips.
The European dominance at the
EPT is more and more obvious which each passing event, though Americans do get a word to say every now and then too. Jim Collopy, fresh off his 21st birthday celebrations, caught an excellent run, which landed him in 4th place overall at the end of the day. Nasr El Nasr, Vadim Markushevski and Julien Brecard, some of the front-runners of the previous days finished with healthy stacks too.
Daniel Negreanu couldn’t gain any traction early in the day. He bled away chips until he found himself short-stacked and forced to push all-in on a Q,J. Jochum Weenink made the call with Q,Q and the Canadian’s EPT run came to an end.
PokerStars’ Nacho Barbero, Luca Pagano and Arnaud Mattern hit the rail too.
