Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
End of Day Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
183,200 | |
|
168,300 | |
|
159,000 | |
|
138,000 | |
|
|
136,800 | |
|
|
126,200 | |
|
124,400 | 14,400 |
|
|
123,600 | |
|
|
122,000 | |
|
|
121,900 | |
|
121,100 | 26,100 |
|
|
114,000 | |
|
|
111,500 | |
|
|
108,800 | |
|
|
106,800 | |
|
|
100,800 | |
|
|
100,400 | 20,400 |
|
|
99,400 | 99,400 |
|
|
94,000 | |
|
|
93,400 | |
|
|
91,500 | |
|
91,400 | -600 |
|
|
87,700 | |
|
87,600 | -2,400 |
|
|
85,400 |
Why So Cserei-ous? Chip Lead Snatched by Baranov
Day 1A is officially concluded. 234 players took up the deep-stacked Pokerstars.net EPT Vienna challenge and just over half of them remain in contention. Of those, just a few are still enjoying the hospitality of the Kursalon as nine levels of tough tournament poker are enough to tire even the hardiest of players. A day off awaits all 123 or so (when the last hands were being dealt it read 124 and I know at least one Italian busted during this final period).
Leading the field for much of the latter part of the day was Ramon Demon Cserei, who looked like he would clinch the end of day lead from Team Pokerstars Pro Martin Hruby (the only Pokerstars Pro from the Czech Republic). His 168,300 is a pretty impressive stack (Hruby's 159,000 only slightly trailing), but anyone taking six figures through to Day Two on Thursday will be pleased with their accumulation. Mihai Manole, for example, ends the day with 138,000.
Chip leader when the bagging and tagging was done, however, was Ukrainian Sergii Baranov, on 183,200.
At the other end of the spectrum Ruben Visser with <10k joked with the dealer that he'd like another bag at the end of the day.
"For what?" deadpanned the dealer.
At least he's still in the running, unlike a host of experienced players who failed to finish the day - Arnaud Mattern, Fabian Quoss, Cristiano Blanco, Kristijonas Andrulis, Andre Coimbra and Alex Kravchenko among them.
Tomorrow we start all over again, with an even larger field expected to receive their 30k starting stack and play for nine levels, cards willing. Live coverage will start at midday - full chip counts from tonight will be posted when we receive them (before tomorrow kicks off).
Big Chip Daddies
Stop the Clock
We've reached that special time of the day when the clock has been paused and our remaining Day 1a runners get to play their last few hands of the day. Please stand by.
Vexed Lex
We found Lex Veldhuis looking very angry and intense as he bet 2,400 from the button on the turn of the 
board. His opponent in the big blind calmly made the call.
They saw a 
river and the big blind checked; Veldhuis looked no less furious with the world as he bet another 6,100. His opponent called and turned over 
but mused, "Sick," as Veldhuis flipped 
for a rivered two pair.
The angry Veldhuis is at 45,000 after that.
Skampa Fails to Feel the Full House
We just caught the very tail end of the hand, but it was pretty dramatic.
The board read 
and there were already a lot of chips in the pot. The bet in front of Jan Skampa (hijack) was 18,000 - but the bet in front of his opponent Petre-Bogdan Ionescu was All In, or 43,200.
Eventually Skampa called - but looked very surprised and mucked when Ionescu turned over 
for a full house.
Ionescu's double up was to 110,000. EPT Prague champion Skampa was left below his starting stack on just 28,000.
Charlie Overcombes Nygaard
Vegard Nygaard's tournament life is over, hailing distance from the end of the day's play, after losing a race to Charlie Combes, who's had a steady climb over the last two levels (in stark contrast).
It happened like this: There was an early position raise to 2,400, called by Nygaard. Combes then reraised to 8,200 after a small deliberation period. The initial raiser got out of the way and Nygaard moved in for something like 25k. Combes called immediately with 
which was up against . The board brought him plenty of royalty and not too many hearts: 
and Nygaard headed to the rail.
The End is Nigh
It looks like the last level sees a comfortable Martin Hruby still dominating the chips, but anything can happen in a single hand in this game and with a lot of stacks nearing the 100k mark it only takes one big clash to change it all...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
158,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
110,000 | 26,000 |
|
|
92,000 | -13,000 |
|
|
90,000 | -28,000 |
|
87,000 | 4,000 |
|
86,000 | |
|
|
85,000 | 35,000 |
|
|
80,000 | -45,000 |
|
64,000 | 9,000 |
|
64,000 | 5,000 |
|
45,000 | 5,000 |
|
45,000 | 25,000 |
|
42,000 | 10,000 |
|
40,000 | 26,000 |
|
38,000 | 2,000 |
|
30,000 | -25,000 |
|
|
26,000 | -10,000 |
|
25,000 | -10,000 |
|
25,000 | -9,000 |
|
14,500 | -33,000 |
|
10,500 | -4,500 |
|
Busted |
Battle of the Sexes Won Decisively By Men
By the by, our last woman standing in Day 1a has recently fallen by the wayside.
Last woman standing? We are somewhat ashamed to tell you that as far as we can see, Almira Skripchenko was the only woman standing at any point in today's Day 1a. Woefully there are no devoted EPT statisticians to help us out here, but we are pretty sure that this is one of the poorest female EPT turnouts of all time. For shame, ladies!
We've got our fingers crossed that we'll have a few more representatives at the tables tomorrow, but so far the only lady we know of who has been confirmed to play tomorrow is Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo. We've seen Catherine Hong lurking around as well, but we can't yet say for certain whether she'll be playing the Main Event.
If any ladies out there fancy a shot at an EPT title tomorrow, there's still time to register for Day 1b...