An early double up for Team PokerStars Pro Ivan Demidov, the Russian's beating Stefan Zollinger's on a board. Not a flicker of emotion from Demidov though.
Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker had an up-and-down day yesterday. We caught up with him before the start of Day 2 to talk about it, as well as his preparation and a little on Phil Hellmuth.
Four players who didn't play Day 1a or Day 1b have registered before the start of play today. That makes for 645 players in total for this event, of whom 351 remain at this moment. Registration is closed now, the prize pool will be announced in a couple of hours.
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Day 1a saw 214 players enter and 106 of those still had chips in front of them after the first eight 75-minute levels of play. On Day 1b 427 players entered and 241 made it through to Day 2. Those numbers combined make for a total of 641 entrants so far and 347 still active, with an average chip stack of a little over 55,400. Registration is open till the start of Day 2 though, so there might just be some players entering and boosting the total amount of entrants.
Though there have been no official announcements, in the most of European Poker Tour Season 10 Main Events there were six 75-minute levels of play scheduled for the second day of play. With eight on Day 1 and six on Day 2, that would take care of the 75-minute levels as the EPT Main Event structure makes the transition to 90-minute levels from level 15 and onward.
Leading the pack of 347 remaining players is Hendrik Latz with 191,600 in chips. His biggest cash to date is his 54th place in this very event last year, a deep run that banked him €18,500. The shortest of them all is PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree who has just 6,200 in chips. The first level to be played on Day 2 is level 9 (400/800 with a 100 ante) which gives Latz 240 big blinds at the moment, while Boeree will have to do with a little short of 8 big blinds.
Level
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
9
400
800
100
10
500
1,000
100
11
600
1,200
200
12
800
1,600
200
13
1,000
2,000
300
14
1,200
2,400
300
PokerNews will again cover all the action from start to finish. From the first flop till the last river, we will bring you all the updates, the best photos, and interviews with all the big name players. The tournament will recommence at 12am local time, in about half an hour the cards will be pitched again.