Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Buy-in
€4,600
Prize Pool
€3,734,694
Entries
837
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
188,200 | |
|
180,000 | |
|
170,600 | |
|
164,200 | |
|
161,900 | 31,900 |
|
161,800 | |
|
156,600 | 600 |
|
152,800 | |
|
143,400 | |
|
|
143,200 | |
|
|
139,800 | -8,200 |
|
132,100 | 55,100 |
|
130,500 | 71,100 |
|
|
128,700 | 20,700 |
|
121,200 | |
|
115,900 | 30,900 |
|
|
115,300 | |
|
|
115,100 | |
|
114,800 | |
|
113,800 | |
|
|
112,500 | |
|
110,600 | -4,400 |
|
108,400 | |
|
106,500 | |
|
105,100 |
Taylor Paur Claims Overall Lead After Day 1b
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Day 1b of the 2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event has concluded. The second starting flight attracted another 477 players. That grew the total field size to 837 and generated a prize pool worth €3,734,694. After the first eight levels of play, Day 1b was topped by Taylor Paur. He bagged up 188,200 in chips and will take the overall chip lead into Day 2.
The tournament room was very alive all day long and plenty of notables were in the mix as always. Team PokerStars Pro was very well represented with likes of Johnny Lodden, Vanessa Selbst, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Salvatore Bonavena, Sandra Naujoks, Matthias De Meulder and Eugene Katchalov. All of those stars have advanced to Day 2 as well their teammate, and former EPT San Remo champion, Liv Boeree.
Back in April 2010, Boeree captured this very title and the €1,250,000 first-place prize that went along with it. She's still ticking in the event and will be doing all she can tomorrow to make a second San Remo title a reality.
Other notable players advancing to Day 2 are Bryn Kenney, Melanie Weisner, Michael Benvenuti, Nick Yunis, McLean Karr, Ted Forrest and Anton Wigg. The newly crowned 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion Elio Fox is also moving on.
Those who are out of the running for this Main Event include Jamie Rosen, Shawn Buchanan, Jake Cody, Martins Adeniya, Eddy Sabat, Matt Waxman, Patrik Antonius and James Mitchell.
In this marvelous event, the top 128 spots will be paid out. Just squeaking into the money will earn a player €7,000, but they're all gunning for the €800,000 top prize that will be handed to the winner. Day 2 will commence at 1400 CET (0500 PDT) tomorrow and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will have all the coverage.
Big Stack Watch
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
188,200 | 68,200 |
|
|
180,000 | |
|
|
170,600 | 26,600 |
|
|
164,200 | 56,200 |
|
|
161,800 | -38,200 |
|
|
156,000 | |
|
|
152,800 | -2,200 |
|
|
143,200 | |
|
139,800 | |
|
|
113,800 | -8,200 |
|
|
108,400 | -16,600 |
|
|
106,500 | 62,500 |
Bagging and Tagging
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The players are now bagging and tagging. We'll have a recap coming for you shortly.
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Four More
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The tournament staff has paused the clock with nine minutes and 29 seconds left and each table will play four more hands. Yesterday, the clock was paused with 12 minutes and 34 seconds left before each table played out seven hands.
"Merry Christmas, Sir"
Brandon Cantu had just been broken to a new table, and on the first hand, he opened to 1,700. Jean-Noel Thorel three-bet him to 4,200, and Cantu popped it right back to 10,200. Throel called.
The flop came 
, and Cantu check-called a big bet of 25,000. The turn 
checked through, and the river came the 
to pair the board. Cantu led out now with 26,000 of his own chips, and Thorel shoved all in for 45,000 or so. Snap-call from Cantu, and Thorel showed up 
for trips.
It was no good. Cantu tabled 
for the full house, and he'll drag a huge pot. We'll call it 180,000 now, but his chips are still in piles in front of him, and we'll have to wait until he stacks up to count him down better.
"Merry Christmas, sir," Salman Behbehani said from across the table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | 141,000 |
Slice of Pie?
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Because it just wouldn't be an EPT without a nationalities pie chart from Mad Harper.
Gjerdevik Doubles Through Nitsche
Dominik Nitsche just gave away 19,950 in chips after he doubled up Eirik Gjerdevik. The two got all of the money in preflop with NItsche holding the lesser 
to Gjerdevik's 
. The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Gjerdevik won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
54,000 | 12,000 |
|
|
41,000 |