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EPT Vilamoura – Day 1B report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2010-08-31 03:57
As expected, the
EPT’s Portuguese Main Event saw slightly more players belly up to the poker tables of the Casino Vilamoura on Day 1B of the event. 203 players coughed up the buy-in, rounding the total field to 384, and thus setting a new record for the largest ever live poker event hosted in Portugal. The record-breaking field came with a record-breaking prize-pool of course, which meant that the player to win it all, would take home an almost $500k haul.
Several of
PokerStars’ name pros found the path to the rail on Day 1B of the event. Daniel Negreanu was one of those pros. Joining him on the sidelines were Noah Boeken, Bertrand Grospellier and Thomas Bichon.
Liv Boeree on the other hand had a good day and remained in contention. David Williams and Brandon Cantu were among the ranks of the survivors as well.
Jonathan Weekes had an excellent start. He knocked out two players during the early going, and soon, he was sailing along on a 90k chip stack. He did manage to conserve his early advantage too, carrying it right through the day.
Another player to build a large early stack was Sorel Mizzi. Mizzi managed to take down a few early pots too, and he eventually finished the day with a stack of 132,200 chips.
Joseph Ebanks joined the ranks of the monster stacks for a while himself, but then he came out on the wrong end in a confrontation with Brandon Cantu and sunk right back into the field.
The chip leader of the day was a PokerStars qualifier. Leonid Bilokur from Russia managed to amass a stack of 161,200, thus clinching the provisional top spot. His stack was slightly bigger than that of the day 1A chip leader so he would be the one heading into day 2 with the overall lead.
