2008 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw

EPT Polish Open Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
€367,141
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,400
Prize Pool
€1,172,973
Entries
217
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
12,000 / 24,000
Ante
3,000

Day 2 Concludes, Play Resumes at 2 p.m. Tomorrow

The 24 players who will return to Casinos Poland Warszawa tomorrow all have one thing in common-- they'll be exiting this tournament with at least some money in their pockets. It took just short of seven levels of play to get from 109 players down to two dozen, with more than half the starting field busting out within the first two hours.

Among the lucky survivors are Dario Minieri, Isabelle Mercier, Roland de Wolfe, Arnaud Mattern, Ludovic Lacay, Joao Barbosa, and WSOP $10K PLO bracelet winner Marty Smyth. Sergey Shcherbatskiy finished the night as the chip leader, with more than 265,000 in his stack.

Not as fortunate were Johnny Lodden, Gavin Griffin, Alan Smurfit, Johannes Strassmann, Sebastian Ruthenberg, and Antony Lellouche-- the latter going from chip leader to out of the tournament in the space of just over an hour. Katja Thater also just missed out on the money, despite her short-stack ninja tactics that allowed her to survive to the final 35 players despite never getting above 30,000 in chips.

Official chip counts will be posted as soon as they become available.

Our 24 money finishers will return tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time to play down to a final table of eight. Join us again as we grow ever-closer to crowning a new EPT champion...and, of course, to see what odd Polish food we're being served in the media room.

Until then, good night and good luck from Warsaw.