Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
End of Day 2 Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
557,400 | 57,400 |
|
476,400 | 244,400 |
|
|
384,000 | 184,000 |
|
351,900 | 98,900 |
|
339,500 | 17,500 |
|
314,000 | 54,000 |
|
305,200 | 99,200 |
|
301,100 | 225,100 |
|
280,500 | 46,500 |
|
275,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
273,000 | -17,000 |
|
259,100 | 178,100 |
|
|
254,700 | 10,700 |
|
253,800 | -31,200 |
|
253,300 | -146,700 |
|
|
238,100 | 166,100 |
|
|
237,500 | -43,500 |
|
236,700 | -43,300 |
|
|
227,500 | 13,500 |
|
221,100 | 73,100 |
|
208,200 | 61,200 |
|
204,500 | 106,500 |
|
196,000 | -14,000 |
|
|
193,200 | -79,800 |
|
|
191,100 | 2,100 |
Bag 'Em and Tag 'Em - Day 2 Concludes With Brandon Cantu in the Lead
221 out of a total (record-breaking) 384 runners in the 2010 Pokerstars EPT Vilamoura returned for Day 2. After eight levels of play over two start days stacks varied from the desperate to the commanding and players displayed differing levels of perkiness due to the impossibility of passing over going out in this balmy resort town at night.
Those in front tended, for the most part, to stay there, and Day 1A top finisher and Pokerstars Team Online member Andre Coimbra is only just trailing the leader at the end of today, none other than Triple Crown seeker Brandon Cantu. He may not have cashed at the EPT before, but his 557,400 stack gives him a good shot tomorrow as only 69 players are coming back and 56 will get paid. He said, in an interview visible here: "I'm actually calling my shot here... and I'm guaranteeing a final table on this one."
Falling short of the third day were early leaders Jonathan Weekes, and Dario Minieri, Pokerstars Team Pros Alex Kravchenko, John Duthie, Ruben Visser, and David Williams and prior champs Liv Boeree and Vicky Coren. These last two players are just one of a large UK contingent, many of whom are still in the upper echelons of the chip counts, including double bracelet-winner JP Kelly, Toby Lewis and Stephen Chidwick.
Join us tomorrow at 12pm local time for another day of live coverage as the field narrows to the paying spots!
Short Stacks Ready, WIlling, But Not Quite Able
...to double up in the closing minutes of the tournament. With a quarter of an hour left on the clock, a lot of hands between deep stacked opponents are taking a good long time (I saw 'Time' called twice in the last room orbit), but some of the shorter stacks are taking this moment as a good opportunity to find an open spot and get it in. Among them Joe Ebanks (trying it under the gun for 43k but getting no action) and Lothar Meier, who re-raised Frederick Jensen's 7k button raise all in preflop, again with little dwell-time, even, before the fold.
Back Of The Net!
Former England footballer Teddy Sheringham has just doubled up thanks to Boyan Bonev. The two got into a raising war and Sheringham's all-in with 
was called by Bonev's 
. The 
flop changed nothing while the 
on the turn hit the crossbar and startled Sheringham a little. But the 
river was the ultimate blank and Sheringham now has 210,000.
Can he improve on his previous two EPT cashes? (EPT London and EPT Monte Carlo last year)
Johansen Breaks Ebanks
Joe Ebanks has survived many a confrontation (and stack adjustment) to get this far, half an hour before the end of play. However, he's just had to pay off 147k from his healthy stack leaving it breathing shallowly and looking faint (45k). He'd raised from the cutoff and found small blind Tom Johansen repopping it to 24,500 (from 6,400). Back to Ebanks, who after a moment's hesitation very softly announced, "All in." It took quite a while for Johansen to call but call he did with 
, and Ebanks' 
could do nothing with the 
flop or 
turn and river. Online qualifier Johansen nearly at 300k suddenly and looking to end the day in great shape.
Vote Pedro!
Luca Pagano opened to 7,500 and Alexey Golodyaev pushed all-in from the button for 56,600. Pedro Guedes then made the call from the small blind and Pagano folded.
Golodyaev: 
Guedes: 
The board was 
and Guedes increased his stack to roughly 350,000.
Fabrizio Ascari nonchantly said, "You're very lucky..."
"I was born lucky," replied Guedes, "I look good, I run good...haha!"
Brandon-wards & Upwards
As the last level of the night gets properly underway, Brandon Cantu remains our chip leader. After winning a WSOP bracelet in 2006 and another in 2009, and picking up a WPT title in 2008 as well, he has now decided to take a shot at the EPT circuit in the hopes of joining Roland de Wolfe and Gavin Griffin in the super-exclusive club of Triple Crown Winners. He told Gloria earlier, "I'm actually calling my shot here. I'm guaranteeing a final table."
Coming from the mouth of another player this might have sounded like a hubristic challenge to the poker gods - but coming from the softly spoken American pro, it somehow seemed just, well, believable. And indeed, as he sits now behind a vast pyramidal fortress constructed of chips - it's hard to tell but we reckon it's around 500,000 - receiving a massage and looking incredibly relaxed and in his element, we would not be in the least bit surprised if Cantu ends up achieving his ambition here in Portugal this week.
Lack of Hocus For Pocas
A very helpful Scott Montgomery pointed out that Bruno Pedro Fonseca Pocas had been eliminated after failing to magic up a king when he held 
against Guillermo Garcia's 
and the Portuguese player fell to the Spaniard.
Play on Pelayo
Oscar Pelayo has recently been feeling the chipstack pressure and was down to around 40k when he found a good spot for a double up. In the big blind with 
, he moved all in over button Allen Bække's preflop raise, which Bække duly called with a dominated . The board ran out 
however, making a two pair with an Ace the best hand for them both. A disappointed Pelayo stood up shaking his head and sat the next hand out.