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EPT Tallinn – Day 1A Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2011-08-04 07:11
Day 1A of the EPT’s Tallinn Main Event marked the beginning of the 8th season of the European Poker Tour. The first day 1 flight was a little disappointing registration-wise. Only 92 players coughed up the buy-in, among them Maksim Kolosov, who bagged the largest stack of chips at the end of the day. Kolosov managed to amass 102k chips on his way to the top of the provisional leader board.
The first one to clinch the chip lead was Martin Jacobson though. He reared his head during the first few levels of play, making up for the fact that his luggage had failed to arrive to Tallinn with him.
Around the 5th level of play, a true table of death was assembled as several of the initial tables broke up due to the eliminations. At the said table, there were two
EPT champions: Roberto Romanello and Kent Lundmark, joined by Maksim Kolosov, Mathew Frankland, Fernando Brito and Kevin Vandersmissen. As it usually happens, the table of death was where the eventual chip leader emerged from. Kolosov built his stack mainly at the expense of Vandersmissen, taking down a huge pot from him when his A,K hit a pair of As on the flop of 10,A,2. That hand helped Kolosov build his stack to 75k, but he obviously didn’t stop there.
Kolosov’s table wasn’t the only interesting one though. There was another table where Pokerstars’ Arnaud Mattern and Rupert Elder played. They both dropped some big pots early on, but eventually they both made it past the Day 1A hurdle.
Fernando Brito, Season 7’s player of the year, made it through the day as well. Brito had just played in the
WSOP Main Event where he ended up in 121st place.
68 players remained at the end of the day. Martin Jacobson and Praz Bansi finished on decent stacks too.
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PokerStars’ Richard Toth and Marcin Horecki will return on day 2 too.
