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EPT Vilamoura – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2010-08-31 11:38
221 players returned to the confines of the Casino Vilamoura to battle it out for survival on day 2 of the EPT’s Vilamoura Main Event. Russia’s Leonid Bilokur, of the PokerStars qualifiers, started the day with the largest stack. The way would not be paved with roses for the Russian though, as an impressive cast of characters also survived to day two and was hell bent on stealing his laurels before the end of the inning. Team
PokerStars’ Arnaud Mattern was among these guys, and so was Brandon Cantu, who eventually managed to grab the chip lead. PokerStars’ Andre Coimbra finished the day in second position, as the starting field whittled down to 69.
Brandon Cantu has been a household name for the US for quite a while, on the other side of the pond though, large scale success has so far eluded him. He hasn’t even cashed in an
EPT event thus far, which is not exactly a surprise considering he’s only ever played in a 2-3 such poker tournaments. Cantu wasn’t the only American busy chipping up on day 2, though others weren’t quite as successful as he. Antonio Esfandiari had a more than decent start, but he started bleeding chips and he eventually busted out within a few hours.
James Dempsey, one of the true revelations of the
2010 WSOP, started the day on a decent stack too. At the end of it though, he was no longer in contention either. Other Brits did much better though. JP Kelly made it all the way to 6th spot on the provisional chip leader board, behind a stack of 314k chips.
Andre Coimbra represented Portugal well yet again, after he’d finished on top on Day 1A. Others who made it past the day 2 hurdle were: Luca Pagano, Teddy Sheringham and Arnaud Mattern.
