Main Event Day 1a | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

10-26-2010 12:20 UTC+2

Bilingual Welcome

[user46298]

"It is a pleasure for us having the EPT back in Vienna after six years! Welcome to the Kursalon!"

The schedules for the days here are being run through (side events are going to be running soon too, and you can play under the Kursalon's chandeliers from 10am until 6am, apparently) in both English and German. Tournament director Thomas Kremser, in his element, explains that today they will be playing nine one-hour levels with a 90 minute dinner break after Level Six. He also points out the fire exits. We are half expecting him to show us how to put on our life-vests.

The players are on their marks, set... shuffle up and deal!

10-26-2010 11:57 UTC+2

Assorted Folks Who Made It Here on Time

[user46392]

The tournament's not that near actually starting, but players are beginning to take their seats.

By the by, Boatman, Lellouche, Veldhuis and Coimbra are all seated at the same table. We expect early action from that corner of the room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arnaud Mattern	30,000

Kristijonas Andrulis	30,000
Michel Abecassis	30,000
Barny Boatman	30,000

Andre Coimbra	30,000

Lex Veldhuis	30,000

Antony Lellouche	30,000

10-26-2010 11:21 UTC+2

Pokerstars.net EPT Vienna Kicks Off Today

[user46298]

The eye-opening surroundings of the Kursalon right in the heart of Vienna city centre are about to welcome hundreds of poker players and distribute them around the tables for the first time in donkey's years as the EPT returns to this historic and beautiful city.

For EPT history you need to look back to 2004 and Season One, where an explosion in the poker world was in the process of boosting fields and bringing the game to a wider selection of people around Europe. Pascal Perrault was victorious then, taking €184,500 for the top spot and putting Vienna on the European Poker Tour map, but this event is the first time it will have returned.

The tournament can accommodate 600 players, and we're going to have a busy couple of Day Ones - the first swathe are going to be allowed in to the room shortly and we expect the first cards to be in the air at midday local time.

Main Event

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