With ten minutes of the first level played, we have 21 tables to keep an eye on and as usual there are some interesting matchups to tell you about.
Over on Table 3, we have John Eames who has amassed over $1 million in live tournament earnings including a third-place finish at EPT Copenhagen in Season 7. A few seats to his left sits the delectable Team PokerStars Pro Fatima Moreira de Melo. Eames has direct position on fellow countryman Christopher Brammer. Brammer recently finished a respectable 365th place in the WSOP Main Event. Finally, you have last year's winner Kevin Stani. The defending champion has just parked his posterior in seat one.
Annette Obrestad is here in Tallinn and she is sharing Table 12 with EPT stalwart Nicolo Calia. EPT Copenhagen Season 7 winner Michael Tureniec is seated at Table 11 and has company from PokerStars Team Online Pro Anders Berg, PCA Main Event third-place finisher Anton Ionel and EPT Deauville Season 7 final tablist Kaspars Renga.
But when it comes to simply outstanding tables glittered with the who's who of poker, then you don't get much better than the collective group seated over at Table 10. You have EPT Vilamoura Season 7 winner Toby Lewis, EPT Copenhagen Season 7 runner-up Per Linde, EPT Barcelona Season 7 runner-up Jesus Cortes Lizano, EPT Barcelona Season 6 fourth-place finisher Mihai Manole and WPT National Series Paris winner Natalia Nikitina.
Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Fatima Moreira De Melo has been quick out of the blocks, helping herself to a thousand or so chips over on Table 3.
John Eames opened to 250 from under the gun, the player next to act called, as did Moreira de Melo and the small blind. The flop came down and everyone checked to Moreira de Melo, who made it 625 to play. Nobody was prepared to pay that price and they all folded.
Moreira de Melo has been a regular on the EPT circuit for the past year, her best finish being a 56th place at EPT Snowfest in March.
Hello and welcome, or should that be Tere tulemast, to Day 1b of the EPT Tallinn Main Event brought to you by PokerStars. Yesterday saw 92 players exchange €4,250 for 30,000 tournament chips, an amazing blind structure and the chance to become a European Poker Tour champion.
Today we are expecting a bumper crowd to descend on the luxurious Swissotel here in the very heart of Tallinn with numbers as high as 200 being touted. Amongst those listed to play today are Team PokerStars Pros Sebastian Ruthenberg and JP Kelly, both of whom had deep runs in the recent World Series of Poker Main Event (Ruthenberg finishing in 55th place and Kelly in 26th).
Also due to play today are Kelly and Ruthenberg's fellow Team PokerStars Pros Ville Vahlbeck and Dario Minieri. They will be joined by the likes of British pro John Eames and Annette Obrestad.
Join us right here on PokerNews from 1200 noon local time for all the action, as it happens, from the EPT Tallinn Main Event.
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and everyone checked to Moreira de Melo, who made it 625 to play. Nobody was prepared to pay that price and they all folded.