£4,250 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London
£4,250 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London
Buy-in
£4,000
Entries
675
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
On Sunday, Season 11 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour continued from the floors of the Grand Connaught Rooms in London with the £4,250 Main Event. A total of 224 players came out for the action in this starting flight, and by the end of the day the clock read that just 135 remained. Anatoly Filatov finished the day as the player to catch, accumulating 173,900 in chips for the lead.
Filatov truly bloomed late in the day, earning a good chunk of chips from confrontations with Joni Jouhkimainen.
Filatov is no stranger to success on the felt, owning over $1.1 million in live tournament cashes. One of Filatov's most notable cashes came earlier this year when he finished runner-up to Fabrice Soulier in the EPT Vienna €10,000 High Roller.
While Filatov bagged the chip lead, he was certainly not the only player to have success on the felt. Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden emerged as one of the larger stacks early in the day and rode that success all of the way through the end of the night. Lodden, who was well above the starting stack as early as Level 2, seemed to thrive around every turn during the first few levels of the day. Late in the night, Lodden had a confrontation with two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Praz Bansi that resulted in the latter's elimination. In the end, Lodden's 
outran Bansi's 
, allowing the Norwegian to add to his massive stack. Lodden finished the day on 125,800.
Other notable players to advance to Day 2 include Hossein Ensan (124,900), James Dempsey (93,900), Niall Farrell (78,700), 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event champion Dominik Panka (74,400), Marvin Rettenmaier (66,100), Sam Chartier (56,000), David Vamplew (54,300) Christoph Vogelsang (48,400), Eoughan O’Dea (44,200), and Max Silver (26,400).
Team PokerStars had a stellar day as well, with pros Eugene Katchalov (74,300), Isaac Haxton (65,800), Leo Margets (54,200), Jake Cody (48,600), Fatima Moreira de Melo (37,500), and Jason Mercier (33,600) all bagging up for Day 2.
While each of the aforementioned players thrived on the first of two starting flights, many other notable names gave it their all only to come up short. Some of the players who went bust before the final hand of the day was dealt include Martins Adeniya, Barny Boatman, Jannick Wrang, Aku Joentausta, Bruno Fitoussi, Steve O'Dwyer, Zimnan Ziyard, Sorel Mizzi, and Mathew Frankland.
Another high-profile player who fell from play was WSOP November Nine chip leader Jorryt van Hoof. Van Hoof flopped top pair with top kicker against Simon Taberham's open-ended straight draw. Most of the money went in on the turn and Taberham was able to complete his straight on the river. Van Hoof called off the last of his chips and was eliminated from play in Level 4.
Tomorrow marks the second and final starting flight to this prestigious event. Players will once again flock to the heart of London with hopes of becoming the next EPT champion and earning what looks to be an astounding first-place prize.
Day 1b will commence at 12 p.m. local time, where players will once again play eight 75-minute levels. As always, PokerNews will be on hand to provide all of the latest updates from the tournament floor.
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
173,900
-21,100
|
-21,100 |
|
141,100
141,100
|
141,100 |
|
128,600
77,600
|
77,600 |
|
125,800
5,800
|
5,800 |
|
||
|
125,100
125,100
|
125,100 |
|
124,900
124,900
|
124,900 |
|
||
|
122,300
122,300
|
122,300 |
|
117,200
117,200
|
117,200 |
|
113,700
57,700
|
57,700 |
|
112,800
112,800
|
112,800 |
|
110,600
30,600
|
30,600 |
|
101,500
70,500
|
70,500 |
|
93,900
48,900
|
48,900 |
|
90,600
90,600
|
90,600 |
|
88,800
88,800
|
88,800 |
|
88,500
64,500
|
64,500 |
|
||
|
88,200
88,200
|
88,200 |
|
|
88,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
|
83,900
83,900
|
83,900 |
|
80,200
80,200
|
80,200 |
|
80,100
50,100
|
50,100 |
|
80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
80,000
33,500
|
33,500 |
|
79,100
34,100
|
34,100 |
|
78,700
-11,300
|
-11,300 |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Tournament staff has announced four more hands before bagging and tagging for the evening.
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Vlad Darie just knocked out two short stacks right at the end of the day in a three-way all in pot.
Darie: 
Agshin Rasulov: 
Stephen O'Keeffe: 
The board came 
allowing Darie to scoop the lot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
As play begins to wind down for the end of the day, it's Anatoly Filatov who is currently leading with around 30 minutes left. The Russian told us of a four-bet pot he won against Joni Jouhkimainen. Both players had checked a 
flop before Jouhkimainen bet 5,000 on the turn and 17,000 on the river. Filatov called him down with and won a substantial pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
195,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Rob Hollink's day has been tough as we've seen him fold for most of it, but just now he managed to gain some chips in a preflop all-in confrontation.
The player in the small blind moved all in to put pressure on Hollink who looked down at his cards and made the call.
Hollink: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and Hollink found himself a double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
18,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Praz Bansi, a two-timer bracelet winner and widely considered to be one the UK's top pros has been knocked out. Bansi has a terrible record in EPTs compared to his numerous successes elsewhere and that continued here today in his hometown of London.
Bansi and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden got into a raising war preflop. It was Lodden's against Bansi's , the Norwegian spiked for an 80,000 and it was Bansi walking out the door.
Lodden is probably the chip leader at this point.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
David Vamplew squeezed all in over the top of a raise and a call. Norman Thalwitzer, the original raiser made the call and the other player folded.
Vamplew tabled 
and must have been relived to be in a flip against his opponent's 
. He was even happier when the board came 
to make trips for the double. After the hand, the third player told Vamplew he'd folded 
as well...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
35,000 | |
|
29,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
We're down to 144 players right now and that means the average stack right now is 43,077.