They played 15 levels on Day 1 of EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship], with just over 600 players surviving the day, but with registration open until the start of Day 2 play, the field isn't quite set yet. The prize pool is now over $2.2 million and still growing as players jump in the game with a bit more than 20 big blinds to start the second day of play.
When the dust settled on the first day of play, Irish player Toby "sadface11" Joyce was sitting behind the biggest stack of chips. He was the only player to collect more than 4 million chips on Day 1, but several other players have stacks in the 3 million range to start the day, including Michel "FreeLancerZZ" Dattani and Ilya "thienlao21" Korobkin, while Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk rounds out the top ten with 2.9 million.
| 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 |
Blinds continue at 30 minutes through the day as they play down to a field of 72 left before they bag and tag in preparation for Day 3. Day 3 is expected to play down to the final table, with the winner decided on Day 4. Action today kicks off at the start of Level 16 with blinds at 6K/12K/1.5K with players getting time added to their bank every two levels.
Stay tuned here for action today as they play down through the money bubble to the final 8 tables, and check out the other events in the 2020 PokerStars EPT Online here on PokerNews.
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Andrey PateychukIlya KorobkinMichel DattaniToby Joyce
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river when "joooonteeee" finally found a bet of 74,340 after a couple of checks. Patricio and Joyce both called, but mucked when "joooonteeee" turned over pocket sixes for the rivered straight.
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