Day 1b Comes to a Close

Wow! What a day it has been today!

The action was fast and furious right from the start and it ended exactly the same way. Team Pokerstars Pro Ruben Visser stealing the chip lead from Stefano Alberto Servalli just after Thomas Kremser had announced to the players that there would be three more hands.

In those last three hands Visser eliminated the player seated to his direct left to increase his chip count to 251,500, and it was enough to earn him a place at the top of the leader board. In fact his haul even surpassed that of yesterdays chip leader Leonid Bilokur, making him the chip leader when we return for Day 2 tomorrow. Second place appears to be occupied by EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity on around 235,000.

Other players through to Day 2 are David Vamplew, Barry Greenstein, Victor Ramdin, Vanessa Selbst, Carter Phillips, Joe Cada, Max Lykov and Ted Forrest.

249 players have survived day 1b, and 211 survived day 1a, so 460 players will return at 12:00 (CET) tomorrow for day of EPT San Remo.