Main Event Day 1b | 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Sanremo

10-07-2012 02:39 UTC+2

Prize Pool Information

Josh_Cahlik

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

The prize pool information is officially in! This tournament earned a whopping 797 runners for a total prize pool of €3,865,450. The player to overcome the rest of the field and take home the championship will also take home a cash prize of €800,000. The top 120 players will make the money with a min-cash netting €8,000. For more information see the handy Payouts tab.

Final Table Payouts

Place	Payout
1	€800,000
2	€483,000
3	€283,000
4	€225,000
5	€171,000
6	€132,000
7	€96,000
8	€65,450

10-07-2012 02:40 UTC+2

Last Three Hands

MarcC

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

The clock has been paused and each table will play three more hands before play concludes for day 1b.

10-07-2012 02:41 UTC+2

A Few More Shots From Day 1b

Chad Holloway

Gaelle Baumann with a gaggle of spectators.

10-07-2012 02:51 UTC+2

Lezzi Wins Big

[user72235]

With around 30,000 chips already in the pot and the board reading Antony Lezzi shoved his stack of 32,675 and was called by Liwei Sun.

Showdown:
Lezzi:
Sun:

Lezzi was drawing both to a straight and a flush while Sun needed his kings to stand. They did not. The on the turn completed Lezzi's flush and gave him a monster chip boost.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antony Lezzi	95,000

Tags: Antony Lezzi Liwei Sun

10-07-2012 02:55 UTC+2

Stayed Tuned for a Full Recap of Day 1b Action

Chad Holloway

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Players are currently bagging and tagging. We're off to get a few official chip counts, and we'll bring you those, and a full recap of the action, in just a little bit. Stay tuned!

10-07-2012 03:09 UTC+2

Various End-of-Day Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Trickett	178,000 6,000	6,000
Alex Roumeliotis	166,100 102,100	102,100
Justin Bonomo	152,200 2,200	2,200
Stefano Giarrusso	148,900 8,900	8,900
Chris Brammer	147,700 11,700	11,700
Shkoyan Tolik	146,700 26,700	26,700
Artem Litvinov	140,900 -7,100	-7,100
Kyle Julius	138,600 30,600	30,600
Jonas Mackoff	128,500 12,500	12,500
Chris Moneymaker	125,300 43,300	43,300

Andre Akkari	123,000 16,000	16,000

Jose Barbero	116,000 46,000	46,000

Shaun Deeb	113,600 -14,400	-14,400
John Taramas	113,000
Alexander Ni	110,100
Roger Hairabedian	95,400 -4,600	-4,600
Lucille Cailly	89,600 44,600	44,600
Rob Yong	86,100 26,100	26,100

Yevgeniy Timoshenko	82,900 13,900	13,900
Angel Guillen	82,400 21,400	21,400

JC Alvarado	77,700 31,700	31,700
Luca Moschitta	76,300 21,300	21,300

Pius Heinz	74,700 -35,300	-35,300

Rupert Elder	69,500 -500	-500

Isaac Haxton	64,800 8,800	8,800

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10-07-2012 03:10 UTC+2

Trickett Emerges as Day 1b Chip Leader

Chad Holloway

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

On Saturday, the 2012 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event continued with Day 1b action as 477 players packed the Casino Sanremo for eight 75-minute levels of play. By the end of that time, approximately 270 remained with Sam Trickett finishing as the chip leader.

Trickett got his stack of 178,000 thanks in large part to picking up aces when another big stack held kings; what’s more, the Brit won a big pot himself a short time later with kings. Trickett’s big stack surpassed that of Day 1a chip leader Erion Islamay (162,300), which makes him the overall chip leader headed into Day 2.

Combined with Day 1a’s 320 runners, the huge Day 1b turnout brought the total field size up to 797 players—which represented 52 countries—and created a prize pool of €3,865,450. That will be distributed to the top 120 players with €800,000 going to the eventual winner.

The day got off to a quick start with the first elimination coming just 11 minutes into play. 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. Interestingly, Day 1a's first elimination came from an aces-versus-kings hand, though those players got it all in preflop.

The Russian may have been the first, but he wasn’t the last. McLean Karr, Faraz Jaka, Davidi Kitai, Ben Hamnett, Antonio Esfandiari, John Duthie, Aku Joentausta, Tobias Reinkemeier, Toby Lewis, Ronny Kaiser, Jonthan Aguiar, Chance Kornuth and the defending champ, Andrey Pateychuk.

Andrey Pateychuk
@aangierr

Defending champ busted. Got it in with J9dd on T876 against Q9o in muptipot for over then 100k. River J and out :( #goodbyebrOctober 06 2012

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Likewise, Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Dario Minieri, Massimiliano Martinez, Richard Toth, Lex Veldhuis, Martin Staszko, Christophe De Meulder, Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Negreanu, Max Lykov, Alex Kravchenko, Martin Hruby and Sandra Naujoks all hit the rail throughout the day.

Some PokerStars Team Pros who will be returning on Day 2 are Chris Moneymaker, Pius Heinz, Andre Akkari, Angel Guillen, and Johnny Lodden, just to name a few. They’ll be joined by other recognizable names including Justin Bonomo, Chris Brammer, Shaun Deeb, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Isaac Haxton and Steve O’Dwyer. In addition, former EPT Sanremo champs Liv Boeree (Season 6) and Rupert Elder (Season 7) will both continue their quest for a second title.

Day 2 will commence at 1400 CET (0800 ET) and PokerNews will be right back on the floor providing all the live updates. Be sure to check back then for all the latest and greatest action from Sanremo.

Tags: Sam Trickett

Main Event

Day 1b Completed