Taylor Paur Claims Overall Lead After Day 1b
Day 1b of the 2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event has concluded. The second starting flight attracted another 477 players. That grew the total field size to 837 and generated a prize pool worth €3,734,694. After the first eight levels of play, Day 1b was topped by Taylor Paur. He bagged up 188,200 in chips and will take the overall chip lead into Day 2.
The tournament room was very alive all day long and plenty of notables were in the mix as always. Team PokerStars Pro was very well represented with likes of Johnny Lodden, Vanessa Selbst, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Salvatore Bonavena, Sandra Naujoks, Matthias De Meulder and Eugene Katchalov. All of those stars have advanced to Day 2 as well their teammate, and former EPT San Remo champion, Liv Boeree.
Back in April 2010, Boeree captured this very title and the €1,250,000 first-place prize that went along with it. She's still ticking in the event and will be doing all she can tomorrow to make a second San Remo title a reality.
Other notable players advancing to Day 2 are Bryn Kenney, Melanie Weisner, Michael Benvenuti, Nick Yunis, McLean Karr, Ted Forrest and Anton Wigg. The newly crowned 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion Elio Fox is also moving on.
Those who are out of the running for this Main Event include Jamie Rosen, Shawn Buchanan, Jake Cody, Martins Adeniya, Eddy Sabat, Matt Waxman, Patrik Antonius and James Mitchell.
In this marvelous event, the top 128 spots will be paid out. Just squeaking into the money will earn a player €7,000, but they're all gunning for the €800,000 top prize that will be handed to the winner. Day 2 will commence at 1400 CET (0500 PDT) tomorrow and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will have all the coverage.