Selahaddin Bedir Chipleader After Day 1 of the $10,300 EPT High Roller
If Day 4 of the $5,300 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus Main Event was over shortly after the dinner break with 16 players remaining, players of Day 1 of the $10,300 EPT High Roller had to be more patient.
They needed to maintain their stacks until the end of ten 60-minute levels to reach the end of the day. And out of the 353 players who registered on Day 1, 151 players bagged their chips and qualified for Day 2.
Selahaddin Bedir secured the top position with an impressive 403,500 chips, making him the only player with more than 400,000 chips. Paulius Plausinaitis closely followed with 399,000 chips, while Kubanychbek Abakirov held 349,000 chips.
Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selahaddin Bedir | Turkey | 403,500 | 269 |
| 2 | Paulius Plausinaitis | Lithuania | 399,000 | 266 |
| 3 | Kubanychbek Abakirov | Kyrgyzstan | 349,000 | 233 |
| 4 | Milos Petakovic | Serbia | 313,000 | 209 |
| 5 | [Removed:452] | Montenegro | 303,000 | 202 |
| 6 | Floyd Rosner | Netherlands | 285,000 | 190 |
| 7 | Omar Del Pino | Spain | 264,500 | 176 |
| 8 | Ioannis Droushiotis | Cyprus | 250,000 | 167 |
| 9 | Maher Nouira | Tunisia | 242,500 | 162 |
| 10 | Masato Yokosawa | Japan | 241,000 | 161 |
Maher Nouira, the winner of the $25,000 NL Hold'em IV, secured a spot in the Top 10 with his 242,500 chips. He's just one blind ahead of Japanese YouTuber Masato Yokosawa, who will return for Day 2 with 241,000 chips.
Following them, the 2010 EPT Monte-Carlo champion Nicolas Chouity ended the day with a stack twice the average (212,500), as did PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg (206,000), and the $50,000 Super High Roller winner Juan Pardo (198,000).
Players like Leon Sturm (188,500), Steve O'Dwyer (175,000), Fabrice Bigot (173,000), Pablo Silva (172,000) or Roberto Romanello (165,000) will also be back on Day 2 with big stacks.
Even after they were eliminated on Day 4 of the EPT Main Event in 29th, 20th, and 18th place, Dario Sammartino (134,000), Bart Lybaert (132,500), and Anton Wigg (100,000) still had time to build stacks larger than EPT champion Artur Martirosian (99,500) or Sam Greenwood (97,000), for example.
Dominik Nitsche (91,500), Dimitar Danchev (87,500), Niklas Astedt (86,000), Mikita Badziakouski (61,500), Benny Glaser (59,000) or Adrian Mateos (54,500) will have smaller stacks too, but they qualified for Day 2.
Day 2 will start tomorrow, Saturday, October 21, at 12:30 p.m. local time, on Level 11 (1,000/1,500/1,500). For the players who didn't qualify yet, late registrations will remain open until the beginning of Day 2. Only two entries are allowed during the tournament, so only players who didn't enter the tournament twice will be able to join. 15% of the field will be in the money. But so far, a big prize pool of $3,462,900 has already been generated.
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