The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo has become the largest poker EPT ever held in Europe with yesterday’s 600 runners making the total turnout 1,178. The participants created a prize pool is €5,713,000 and the winner will receive €1.5 million. Click here to check the full payouts for the top 112 players in San Remo.
Day 1B’s field was packed full of excellent players, online greats, and bracelet holders. David Callaghan and Luca Pagano (pictured right) had a nice run early on in the day. Pagano doubled up to around 18,000 with Q-Q, flopping quads while Callaghan called an all in with pocket aces versus pocket kings.
Norwegian Johnny Lodden was eliminated with a rivered jack giving his opponent ( World Series of Poker finalist John O’Shea) an unlikely winning hand while EPT Barcelona winner Sebastien Ruthenberg ran K-J into Juan Macerias’ aces which sealed his demise.
Dario Minieri (pictured left) was all in with A-Q versus A-A. Although there was a queen on the flop, his opponent hit the nut flush (and one away from a royal) and the event lost another strongly fancied pro who made last year’s final table in at this event.
Mid-session saw a number of high profile players hit the rail including Peter Eastgate, Noah Boeken, and Hevad Khan, all three running their ace-kicker’s into ace-better kickers.
Julian Thew, Patrik Antonius, and Ilari Sahamies also departed before the tournament relaly hit its stride.
Jonas Molander and Dave Callaghan were two late casualties and at the end of play 253 players remained. These players will join the survivors from day 1A, forming a field of 469 players, for an action packed day 2 in San Remo.
The top ten in chips going into the day are:
- Dragan Galic (Croatia) — 107,800
- Ljubomir Josipovic (Austria) — 83,200
- Vincenzo Spinelli (Italy) — 79,100
- Govert Metaal (Monaco) — 78,800
- Nikolay Losev (Russia) — 76,000
- Jose Valero (Spain) — 75,900
- Asa Smith (UK) — 74,700
- Constant Rijkanberg (Holland) — 74,400
- Andrea Nunes (Italy) — 69,600
- Marc Friedmann (Switzerland) –67,400
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