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PokerStars EPT Warsaw – Day 1B: Lellouche finishes on top
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2009-10-24 11:09
The EPT’s Warsaw stop saw 115 players belly up to the tables of the Casinos Poland, bringing the total number of participants to 203. The event attracted participants from 33 countries, some of them online qualifiers, some everyday Joes and a whole bunch of professional poker players. The star studded nature of the field produced a pro chip leader on Day 1A in Carter Phillips, and Day 1B yielded a similar outcome. When the action was called, Frenchman Anthony Lellouche occupied the top spot on the provisional leader board. He failed to accumulate as many chips as Phillips though, who remained the overall leader.
Considering the quality of the competition Lellouche had to face on Day 1B though, his feat was highly respectable one. Scotty Nguyen, Vitaly Lunkin, Sammy Kelopuro, and Shaun Deeb were all at the tables looking to earn a pass to Day 2. Gus Hansen was expected to participate too, but he failed to show up.
Team PokerStars was represented by Sebastian Ruthenberg, Dario Minieri, and Bertrand Grospellier. Nearly all the “name” professionals survived the day, except for Katja Thater, Florian Langman and William Thorson who all fell victim to Day 1B attrition.
Anthony Lellouche’s rise to chip lead wasn’t entirely unexpected. After all, he had pulled the same stunt a year ago at this very
EPT event. He dominated his table all through Day 1B and kept adding to his stack pretty much all the time.
Jim Collopy was the one responsible for setting him on the right track, as he was the one who gave Lellouche his first significant chip thrust of the day.
Collopy launched a brazen bluff on a board of 9,2,5,A, J three betting his opponent’s preflop raise, then betting the flop and the turn and going all-in on the river holding nothing but 6s, 8s.
Lellouche called him with pocket 4s though and bounced him mercilessly. The Frenchman eventually ended up with 131,475 chips, overtaking Jeff Sarver and Alessio Isaia who had both collected more than 100,000 chips. 84 players survived the second Day 1 flight.
