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EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship]
Day 1 Completed
2020 PokerStars EPT Online
EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship]
Day: 1
Event Info
2020 PokerStars EPT Online
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$1,050
Prize Pool
$2,426,000
Total Entries
2,426
Level
56
Blinds
3,500,000 / 7,000,000
Ante
875,000
Entries
2,426
Players Left
869
Players Left 1 / 2,426
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Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
After 15 levels and just over 8 hours of play, Day 1 is now complete for the opening event of 2020 PokerStars EPT Online. A total of 2,179 entries have been recorded so far, with just 622 left in play. At the top of the pack is Ireland's Toby "sadface11" Joyce with 4,336,056, the only player with more than 4 million chips.
Registration for this event is still open, and players can still buy in until the start of Day 2 play. When they resume in Level 16, blinds will be at 6K/12K/1.5K, which means that the 250K starting stack will be worth just over 20 big blinds for the first level of Day 2 play. While the prize pool for EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship] has already surpassed the $1.5 million guarantee with more than $2 million in the kitty, there's still plenty of time for that to grow even larger.
Top Ten Stacks After Day 1
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toby "sadface11" Joyce | Ireland | 4,336,056 |
| 2 | marlin5555 | Canada | 3,458,938 |
| 3 | machadinhaRS | Brazil | 3,305,384 |
| 4 | Michel "FreeLancerZZ" Dattani | Malta | 3,173,754 |
| 5 | Ilya "thienlao21" Korobkin | Ukraine | 3,098,288 |
| 6 | 99dm84 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3,050,582 |
| 7 | Barbarossa_7 | Austria | 3,040,644 |
| 8 | Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov | Russian Federation | 2,990,642 |
| 9 | serrazina11 | Malta | 2,949,886 |
| 10 | Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk | Russian Federation | 2,932,600 |
The Day's Action
Action on EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship] got underway at 1:05 p.m. eastern time today, and it was clear from the start that it would be a success. More than 600 players were in their seats for the start of the event, and they'd already cleared the guarantee before the end of Level 6.
By the time they'd played the full 15 levels of Day 1, the field had topped out at 2,179 entries, putting the prize pool at $2,179,000. Entry is still open until Day 2 starts, so that is expected to grow even farther.
There was no luck today for the team from PokerStars. PokerStars Team Online members Ben "Spraggy" Spragg, Fintan "EasyWithAces" Hand, and Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis, as well as PokerStars Ambassador Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas, all started the day with high hopes but all finished the tournament before the end of Day 1. Veldhuis made it the farthest, holding a decent stack through much of the day and even hitting a royal flush at one point, before falling in the final level.
PokerNews will be at the virtual felt watching all the action as this event plays down to a winner. Action on Day 2 resumes at 1:10 p.m. eastern time Monday, and they'll play down to 72 players remaining before stopping for the night. PokerNews will also have action from all the other events in the first ever 2020 PokerStars EPT Online, so stay tuned.
Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
Level 15 is now over, and players have bagged their virtual chips for the night. Registration remains open until the start of Day 2, and players buying in now will still start Day 2 with more than 20 big blinds. Currently, the prize pool is well over $2 million, but the final prizes won't be set till Day 2 begins.
Stay tuned for a recap of the day and look at some of the big and featured stacks.
Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis shoved less than ten big blinds from the big after "Crosche" raised the button.
"Crosche": 
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis: 
Board: 
Veldhuis couldn't hit with his suited Broadway cards, so "Crosche" held with the ace-high. Elsewhere, PokerStars Ambassador Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas also busted his final stack.
Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
Aliaksandr "Alexgirs" Hirs raised the hijack to 21K, then called the cutoff three-bet to 65K from Laszlo "Lackoo87gcb" Molnar. The flop came 
and Hirs check-called for 55K. Hirs check-called again for 135K on the 
turn, and Hirs check-called for his stack on the 
river.
Laszlo "Lackoo87gcb" Molnar: 
Aliaksandr "Alexgirs" Hirs: 
Board:
Hirs rivered the house to crack Molnar's aces and chip up over 1 million.
Level 15
: 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
Andy "BowieEffect" Wilson took down a pot at the end of Level 14 with a pre-flop shove from the big blind. "$harkFlo" three-bet the button after a cutoff raise, but both players folded to the shove of more than 600K.
Level: 15
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,250
Level 14
: 4,500/9,000, 1,100 ante
The final break of the day has just begun with 2,155 entries on the board and 730 stacks still in play. They'll return to a few minutes of play in Level 14 with blinds at 4.5K/9K/1.1K before they move the final level at 5K/10K/1.25K.
Level 14
: 4,500/9,000, 1,100 ante
Aliaksandr "Alexgirs" Hirs three-bet the cutoff to 46K after an open from the middle, but Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov shoved his big blind for 689,580. The original raiser got out of the way, but Hirs called it off at risk.
Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov: 
Aliaksandr "Alexgirs" Hirs: 
Board: 
The queens held for Hirs and he took down a nice double.
