Jan Skampa's Ahead

Chip leader, we believe, at this early-mid stage of Day 1A, is Jan Skampa, winner of EPT Prague in '09 (the same year in which he finished fourth at EPT Vilamoura). 71,000 sounds like a lot and it is - especially considering the blinds are just 100/200.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jan Skampa	71,000 41,000	41,000

Martin Jacobson	62,000 32,000	32,000
Barny Boatman	50,200 20,200	20,200

Almira Skripchenko	41,800 11,800	11,800
Jeff Williams	40,000
Martin Hruby	38,000 8,000	8,000

Paul Berende	36,600 6,600	6,600
Jake Cody	35,500 5,500	5,500

Piotr Majewski	34,500 4,500	4,500

Alex Kravchenko	34,100 4,100	4,100

Lex Veldhuis	34,000 4,000	4,000

Anthony Roux	32,200 2,200	2,200
	32,000 2,000	2,000
Stephen Chidwick	30,200 200	200

Michel Abecassis	29,000 1,000	1,000
Atanas Gueorguiev	28,800 1,200	1,200
Michael Keiner	28,200 1,800	1,800

Nicolas Levi	28,000 2,000	2,000
Cristiano Blanco	26,000 4,000	4,000
Dan Murariu	23,600 6,400	6,400

Andre Coimbra	20,600 9,400	9,400

Antony Lellouche	20,600 9,400	9,400
Pier Paolo Fabretti	20,500 9,500	9,500

Kristijonas Andrulis	19,600 10,400	10,400
Arnaud Mattern	18,200 11,800	11,800

Ruben Visser	16,550 13,450	13,450

Fabrizio Ascari	12,800 17,200	17,200
Casey Kastle	1,125 28,875	28,875