£4,250 Main Event Day 1a | 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£4,250 Main Event

Day 1a Completed

10-12-2014 23:24 UTC

Day 1a Concludes with Anatoly Filatov On Top

Josh_Cahlik

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

On Sunday, Season 11 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour continued from the floors of the Grand Connaught Rooms in London with the £4,250 Main Event. A total of 224 players came out for the action in this starting flight, and by the end of the day the clock read that just 135 remained. Anatoly Filatov finished the day as the player to catch, accumulating 173,900 in chips for the lead.

Filatov truly bloomed late in the day, earning a good chunk of chips from confrontations with Joni Jouhkimainen.

Filatov is no stranger to success on the felt, owning over $1.1 million in live tournament cashes. One of Filatov's most notable cashes came earlier this year when he finished runner-up to Fabrice Soulier in the EPT Vienna €10,000 High Roller.

While Filatov bagged the chip lead, he was certainly not the only player to have success on the felt. Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden emerged as one of the larger stacks early in the day and rode that success all of the way through the end of the night. Lodden, who was well above the starting stack as early as Level 2, seemed to thrive around every turn during the first few levels of the day. Late in the night, Lodden had a confrontation with two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Praz Bansi that resulted in the latter's elimination. In the end, Lodden's outran Bansi's , allowing the Norwegian to add to his massive stack. Lodden finished the day on 125,800.

Other notable players to advance to Day 2 include Hossein Ensan (124,900), James Dempsey (93,900), Niall Farrell (78,700), 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event champion Dominik Panka (74,400), Marvin Rettenmaier (66,100), Sam Chartier (56,000), David Vamplew (54,300) Christoph Vogelsang (48,400), Eoughan O’Dea (44,200), and Max Silver (26,400).

Team PokerStars had a stellar day as well, with pros Eugene Katchalov (74,300), Isaac Haxton (65,800), Leo Margets (54,200), Jake Cody (48,600), Fatima Moreira de Melo (37,500), and Jason Mercier (33,600) all bagging up for Day 2.

While each of the aforementioned players thrived on the first of two starting flights, many other notable names gave it their all only to come up short. Some of the players who went bust before the final hand of the day was dealt include Martins Adeniya, Barny Boatman, Jannick Wrang, Aku Joentausta, Bruno Fitoussi, Steve O'Dwyer, Zimnan Ziyard, Sorel Mizzi, and Mathew Frankland.

Another high-profile player who fell from play was WSOP November Nine chip leader Jorryt van Hoof. Van Hoof flopped top pair with top kicker against Simon Taberham's open-ended straight draw. Most of the money went in on the turn and Taberham was able to complete his straight on the river. Van Hoof called off the last of his chips and was eliminated from play in Level 4.

Tomorrow marks the second and final starting flight to this prestigious event. Players will once again flock to the heart of London with hopes of becoming the next EPT champion and earning what looks to be an astounding first-place prize.

Day 1b will commence at 12 p.m. local time, where players will once again play eight 75-minute levels. As always, PokerNews will be on hand to provide all of the latest updates from the tournament floor.

Tags: Anatoly Filatov

10-12-2014 23:20 UTC

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Happy_Freaked

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anatoly Filatov	173,900 -21,100	-21,100
Jose Quintas	141,100 141,100	141,100
Maximos Pertsinidis	128,600 77,600	77,600
Johnny Lodden	125,800 5,800	5,800

Alexander Trevallion	125,100 125,100	125,100
Hossein Ensan	124,900 124,900	124,900

Alfie Adam	122,300 122,300	122,300
Daniel Nilsson	117,200 117,200	117,200
Sergio Aido	113,700 57,700	57,700
Ryan Spittles	112,800 112,800	112,800
Simon Taberham	110,600 30,600	30,600
Javed Abrahams	101,500 70,500	70,500
James Dempsey	93,900 48,900	48,900
Hans Winzeler	90,600 90,600	90,600
Sven Wendt	88,800 88,800	88,800
Fedor Holz	88,500 64,500	64,500

Yuri Martins Dzivielevski	88,200 88,200	88,200
Nicholas Markou	88,000 88,000	88,000
Miltiadis Kyriakides	83,900 83,900	83,900
Ben Warrington	80,200 80,200	80,200
Simon Deadman	80,100 50,100	50,100
Will Dorey	80,000 80,000	80,000
Tudor Purice	80,000 33,500	33,500
Simon Higgins	79,100 34,100	34,100
Niall Farrell	78,700 -11,300	-11,300

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10-12-2014 22:47 UTC

Four More Hands

Josh_Cahlik

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Tournament staff has announced four more hands before bagging and tagging for the evening.

10-12-2014 22:47 UTC

Vlad the Impaler

[user76023]

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Vlad Darie just knocked out two short stacks right at the end of the day in a three-way all in pot.

Darie:
Agshin Rasulov:
Stephen O'Keeffe:

The board came allowing Darie to scoop the lot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlad Darie	60,000 60,000	60,000
Stephen O'Keeffe	Busted
Agshin Rasulov	Busted

10-12-2014 22:29 UTC

Filatov Leading

[user76023]

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

As play begins to wind down for the end of the day, it's Anatoly Filatov who is currently leading with around 30 minutes left. The Russian told us of a four-bet pot he won against Joni Jouhkimainen. Both players had checked a flop before Jouhkimainen bet 5,000 on the turn and 17,000 on the river. Filatov called him down with and won a substantial pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anatoly Filatov	195,000 105,000	105,000

10-12-2014 22:17 UTC

Finally One For Hollink

Happy_Freaked

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Rob Hollink's day has been tough as we've seen him fold for most of it, but just now he managed to gain some chips in a preflop all-in confrontation.

The player in the small blind moved all in to put pressure on Hollink who looked down at his cards and made the call.

Hollink:
Opponent:

The board ran out and Hollink found himself a double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rob Hollink	18,000 -13,000	-13,000

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10-12-2014 22:16 UTC

Lodden Wins Big Against Bansi

[user76023]

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Praz Bansi, a two-timer bracelet winner and widely considered to be one the UK's top pros has been knocked out. Bansi has a terrible record in EPTs compared to his numerous successes elsewhere and that continued here today in his hometown of London.

Bansi and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden got into a raising war preflop. It was Lodden's against Bansi's , the Norwegian spiked for an 80,000 and it was Bansi walking out the door.

Lodden is probably the chip leader at this point.

Player	Chips	Progress
Johnny Lodden	120,000 28,000	28,000

Praz Bansi	Busted

10-12-2014 22:13 UTC

Vamplew Doubles Up

[user76023]

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

David Vamplew squeezed all in over the top of a raise and a call. Norman Thalwitzer, the original raiser made the call and the other player folded.

Vamplew tabled and must have been relived to be in a flip against his opponent's . He was even happier when the board came to make trips for the double. After the hand, the third player told Vamplew he'd folded as well...