PokerStars.com EPT San Remo, Day 1b: Stars Out in Force
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Day 1b at the EPT San Remo saw the stars of the game settle down to
do what they do best – play poker. The field included superstars
such as Daniel Negreanu, Lee ‘Final Table’ Nelson, Bertrand 'ElkY'
Grospellier, Todd Brunson and Chad Brown.
Day 1b at the EPT San Remo saw the stars of the game settle down to
do what they do best – play poker. The field included superstars
such as Daniel Negreanu, Lee ‘Final Table’ Nelson, Bertrand 'ElkY'
Grospellier, Todd Brunson and Chad Brown.
With 361 players entering on Day 1b joining the 341 from Day 1a,
a total field of 702 entrants generated a first-place prize of
$1,340,867.
The tournament was forgettable for Chad Brown, as he was
eliminated just before the first break. Joining him on the rail a
little earlier than they would have liked were Isabelle Mercier and
Marco Traniello. Mercier’s kings were busted when her opponent
flopped the nuts on a J-9-8 board. The French dame missed her
runner-runner outs, and exited for the streets of San Remo.
Others who were eliminated on Day 1b included EPT Prague
champion Arnaud Mattern, Lee Nelson, Thierry van den Berg and Tony
G. Tony G managed to find himself short stacked early in
proceedings, and had begun to pick up some momentum by stealing the
blinds and antes a couple of times per orbit. Eventually he was
looked up when his opponent called G’s Kc-Qc with pocket fours. A
queen on the flop was the nailed in Tony’s coffin, and turn and
river bricked.
Anthony Lellouche won a big pot against Antonio Esfandiari to
propel himself to the top of the chip standings at the end of the
day. Max Pescatori also finished well, with a double up close to
the end of the day’s play. He managed to get his stack into the
middle with pocket kings, his opponent being left out to dry with
K-Q offsuit.
Other notables who made it through Day 1b included Todd Brunson
and Juha Helppi. Both players ended the day in an aggressive mood,
accumulating a lot of chips when perhaps some around them were
already looking forward to getting through to Day 2.
Day 1b chip leaders look like this:
Anthony Lellouche – 94,000
Jan Heitmann – 92,000
Roberto Romanello – 83,000
Mads Wissing Andersen – 82,000
Theo Jorgensen – 65,000
Juha Helppi – 46,000
Richard Holmes – 45,400
Antonio Esfandiari – 43,000
Rob Hollink – 38,000
Billy Argyros – 37,500
Day 1a saw a quieter field, with Patrik Antonius being the
biggest elimination from the tournament. Below are the chip leaders
from Day 1a:
Ville Nyman 107,100
Henrik Brockmann 100,100
Yung Hwang 96,000
Hakan Sahl 93,700
Loic Perret 72,700
Anthony Spinella 71,600
Eero Kekäläinen 70,000
Roberto Masullo 66,200
Isaac Baron 62,700
Dag Palovic 59,200
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