Main Event
Day 1b Started
Main Event
Day 1b Started
Welcome back to the beautiful Italian Riviera for Day 1b of the Season 9 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event. Day 1a is already in the books, and leading the way is the local player Erion Islamay with 162,300 in chips. A total of 320 players entered the tournament yesterday, but only 172 of those will join the survivors of today's field and come back for Day 2.
Among those to return to the felt on Sunday are five Team PokerStars Pros including the recent WSOP Europe Main Event final table player Jason Mercier; Leo Fernandez who came out victorious at the LAPT Panama just a week ago as well as Ana Marquez, Jude Ainsworth and Victor Ramdin. Joining them is Team Online’s Mickey Petersen.
A whole list of notables have already registered for Day 1b of the Main Event featuring Torsten Brinkmann, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Lodden, Andre Akkari, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko, Salvatore Bonavena, the 2010 EPT Sanremo winner Liv Boeree, and the defending champ Andrey Pateychuk.
There's gonna be a lot of action going on at the Casino Sanremo so be sure to stay tuned for all the latest from Day 1b.
EPT Sanremo at a Glance
Season | Date | Buy-In | # of Players | Prize Pool | Winner | Top Prize |
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4 | April 1-5, 2008 | €5,000 | 701 | €3,100,000 | Jason Mercier | €869,000 |
5 | April 18-23, 2009 | €5,300 | 1,178 | €5,713,300 | Constant Rijkenberg | €1,508,000 |
6 | April 15-21, 2010 | €5,300 | 1,240 | €6,014,000 | Liv Boeree | €1,250,000 |
7 | April 27-May 3, 2011 | €5,300 | 987 | €4,786,950 | Rupert Elder | €930,000 |
8 | October 21-27, 2011 | €4,900 | 837 | €3,734,694 | Andrey Pateychuk | €680,000 |
PokerStars.tv's Lynn Gilmartin sets the sceee going into Day 1B of EPT Sanremo. Chip leaders, players and side event heroes are all covered.
Watch the video at the PokerStars Blog.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The cards are in the air here at the Casino Sanremo for Day 1b action of the Main Event. We've already seen the likes of Liv Boeree, Daniel Negreanu and Dario Minieri making their way to their seats, so we expect today is going to be a very entertaining one.
Yesterday the first elimination of Day 1a occurred just 15 minutes into play. Today it took 11 minutes. It happened when Andrii Nadieliaiev and Andrey Zaichenko each put in 4,750 preflop and saw a flop of .
Zaichenko bet 5,000, Nadieliaiev called, and the dealer burned and turned the . Zaichenko bet again, this time 6,000, and again Nadieliaiev called. When the peeled off on the river, Zaichenko moved all in for his last 14,300 and Nadieliaiev snap-called. Zaichenko revealed , but it was no good against the of Nadieliaiev.
Interesting, yesterday's first elimination came from an aces-versus-kings hand, though those players got it all in preflop.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Andrii Nadieliaiev | 60,000 | |
Andrey Zaichenko | Busted |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Lucille Cailly | 30,000 | |
Ronny Kaiser | 30,000 | |
Daniel Negreanu | 30,000 | |
Dag Palovic | 30,000 | |
Bryan Paris | 30,000 | |
Stephen Chidwick | 30,000 | |
Johnny Lodden | 30,000 | |
Dermot Blain | 30,000 | |
Toby Lewis
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30,000 | |
Ashley Mason | 30,000 | |
Andre Akkari | 30,000 | |
Max Silver | 30,000 | |
Daniel Weinman | 30,000 | |
Chris Sly | 30,000 | |
Gaelle Baumann
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30,000 | |
Dario Minieri | 30,000 | |
Fatima Moreira de Melo | 30,000 | |
Kara Scott | 30,000 | |
Alex Kravchenko | 30,000 | |
Kevin MacPhee
|
30,000 | |
Pius Heinz | 30,000 | |
Mike Watson
|
30,000 | |
Kristijonas Andrulis | 30,000 | |
Andrey Pateichuk
|
30,000 | |
Igor Kurganov | 30,000 |
While perusing the tournament area we found that 2003 WSOP Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker and fellow Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu are seated at the same table.
We came across Moneymaker in a hand with Ronny Kaiser and another player. The board read and three players checked. The board finished with the and there were two more checks to Moneymaker. He flung out 650 and Kaiser called. The third player in the hand got rid of his cards and Moneymaker showed for a pair of fives. Kaiser tabled for kings and took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Eugene Katchalov | 30,000 | |
Bertrand Grospellier | 30,000 | |
Steve O'Dwyer
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30,000 | |
Joseph Cheong | 30,000 | |
Davidi Kitai
|
30,000 | |
Faraz Jaka | 30,000 | |
Nicolas Levi | 30,000 | |
Angel Guillen | 30,000 | |
Vadzim Kursevich | 30,000 |