Timex Ticking Toward Another EPT Title?
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Good morning from sunny Spain, and welcome back for Day 3 of the EPT Madrid Main Event.
A field full of 477 players kicked this thing off a couple days ago, and that number has been reduced to 112 here at the halfway point. Among them are five members of Team PokerStars Pro: Team Pros Alex Kravchenko (52,000), Henrique Pinho (61,400), Angel Guillen (95,000), and Johnny Lodden (180,900); and from Team Online, Javier Dominguez (141,700) and Mikhail Shalamov (172,600) will be returning as well to try and claim one for the keyboard warriors.
Other notables still working towards a deep run include David Benyamine, Melanie Weisner, Dermot Blain, Rupert Elder, Kevin MacPhee, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, and Toby Lewis.
And that's excluding the top ten, which is filled with some familiar faces as well. Mike "Timex" McDonald is the overall chip leader, and he's put himself in as good a position as possible to become the tour's first-ever double champion. McDonald bagged up 409,800 chips last night, just a couple chips ahead of Frederik Jensen's 404,500. In the sub-400 club are Dmitry Vitkind (368,000), McLean Karr (330,700), and Erich Kollmann (275,500).
Our remaining players have just begun to file into the building, and the chip bags are coming out from hiding. Play gets under way in just about 15 minutes, and we expect to reduce our field down to 24 players before bagging back up.
Sit tight!