The PokerStars European Poker Tour event at the Casino Municipale, San Remo kicked off at the end of last week, with 1,240 players from over 40 different countries all bidding to pick up a piece of the €6,014,000 prize pool, making the event the biggest so far in the EPT’s short history.
The winner of EPT San Remo will earn €1,250,000, as well as a spot in next week’s EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The man best placed to land the spoils at the end of Day 3 is Swede Jakob Karlsson, with a stack of 1,800,000 in tournament chips. Also near the top of the leaderboard is recent EPT Snowfest champion Allan Baekke, who sits on a stack of 1,485,000 after scooping a large pot right at the death.
The €5,300 buy-in event was not immune to the effects of the Icelandic volcano, with many players stranded at various airports. PokerStars put on a bus for the likes of Peter Eastgate and Barry Greenstein, but they needn’t have bothered as both players exited within the first nine levels! A similarly sharp exit befell Vanessa Rousso, Richard Toth and Joe Cada.
Day 2 of EPT San Remo had begun with the field cut in half and Michael Eerhart in the chip lead. A chaotic day’s play ensued, with more than 400 players eliminated in just six blind levels, a rate of two eliminations per minute. The chaos came to a halt with Russian high-roller Dmitry Stelmak at the head of the 194 strong field.
With 184 places being paid, ten players would be disappointed early in the third day’s poker, one of whom was Kelly Kim, the Californian who finished 8th in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Kim ran his pocket kings into pocket aces – that had to hurt.
The third day saw the field reduced to just 66 players and Atanas Gueorguiev, Liv Boeree and Joe Serock are amongst the names who will be returning for the fourth day. PokerStars Pros Thomas Bichon (77th, €13,000), Jason Mercier (100th, €10,000) and Sebastian Ruthenberg (122nd, €9,000) will not be returning and nor will Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who finished 145th for €7,500.
The climax of the European Poker Tour San Remo is set up to be a thriller, with the possibility of the first ever two-time EPT champion emerging in the shape of Alan Baekke. Day 4 will play down to 24, while the fifth day will play down to just six remaining poker players, all looking to pick up that €1,250,000 in prize money.
Stay tuned for European Poker Tour updates.
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