Here are the Team PokerStars Pro members we've found hidden (and some not so hidden) in the field:
Dario Minieri - Team Italy
Katja Thater - Team Germany
Matthias de Meulder - Team Belgium
Vadim Markushevski - Team Belarus
Fatima Moreira de Melo - Team SportsStar
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - Team France
Juan Manuel Pastor - Team Spain
Luca Moschitta - Team Online
Alfio Battisti - Team Online
A few more pros with impressive EPT achievements have popped up in the field, including:
Reigning EPT Player of the Year Max Lykov
EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee
EPT Berlin runner up Ilari Tahkokallio
EPT Kiev high-roller champion Shaun Deeb
Too many achievements to name Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
EPT Monte Carlo winner Nicholas Chouity
EPT Monte Carlo high-roller champion Tobias Reinkemeier
EPT Copenhagen winner Jens Kyllonen
People spotted playing today include:
Jens Kyllonen
Dan Owston
John Eames
Rob Sherwood
Sergey Rybachenko
Marc Naalden
Casey Kastle
Roberto Romanello
Fatima Moreira de Melo
Randal Flowers
The line has been sorted out and cards are in the air for Day 1b.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The scheduled start time of noon has been and gone, yet we are nowhere near starting. The reason for this is the venue's insistence on scanning everyone's casino ID card before they enter the tournament area or the bar, and with only two card scanning machines in the building and probably around 300 players as well as media, staff and railers needing to have their cards scanned, the staff are struggling. This problem led to the dinner break being extended by 20 minutes yesterday, and we suspect that this will be the deciding factor in whether or not there are dinner breaks from Day 2 onwards.
Nevertheless, we're hoping that the 40 or 50 people squashed in the space by the elevators have their cards processed soon, and we should be getting this party started shortly.
Here we are once more for the second start day of the EPT here in the Baltic state of Tallinn. Amongst those playing today include Betrand 'ElkY' Grospieller (who has managed to tear himself away from Starcraft 2) as well as bracelet winners Dario Minieri and Richard Ashby.
The field is expected to bigger than yesterday's 181 with anything up to perhaps 300 playing, though like Luca Pagano 3-betting from the button, this might be a tight squeeze - with so many tables in the tournament area.
Play should be getting started in around 10 minutes or so with the target of chip leader set at 203,200 which WPT Barcelona winner Ali Tekintamgac currently has. Nine levels of one hour with a dinner break after six is the order of todays play, with all remaining players to be coming back tomorrow for day 2.
Who is going to be the first EPT champion of Season 7?
Main Event
Day 1b Started
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