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Rob Yong is 4th in chips at the end of day one B with 123,300 chips. Blinds are only 500/1000/100 so plenty of room, also obviously John Eames is 7th in chips with 110,200. Also JP Kelly has 93,700 chips so is in the top 15 aswell. Lastly, Yoyo Thew has 83,500 and Stu Rutter has 69,000 gogogogoogoggogo thewy

Gl to all on day two, toasty lives! :)

gl all in!

Also Praz Bansi 54k and Javed Abrahams 27k

gogogo!

Please see below for the payouts for PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura. The total prize pool is €1,561,700, paying out to 48 places with a first prize of €404,793.

Position Prize
1 € 404,793
2 € 257,681
3 € 156,170
4 € 117,128
5 € 78,085
6 € 62,468
7 € 46,851
8 € 31,234
9-10 € 23,426
11-12 € 17,180
13-14 € 13,274
15-16 € 11,713
17-24 € 10,151
25-32 € 8,589
33-40 € 8,121
41-48 € 7,652

Please see below for nationality stats from PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura. We have 322 players total, from 30 countries. Portugal has around 20% of the field with 63 players out of the total field.

Country Players %
Portugal 63 20%
Germany 32 10%
France 30 9%
Spain 28 9%
Netherlands 24 7%
UK 19 6%
USA 18 6%
Italy 16 5%
Russia 12 4%
Sweden 12 4%
Canada 8 2%
Finland 8 2%
Switzerland 8 2%
Denmark 7 2%
Ireland 6 2%
Belgium 4 1%
Norway 4 1%
Romania 4 1%
Ukraine 4 1%
Austria 3 1%
Czech Republic 2 1%
Poland 2 1%
Algeria 1
Bulgaria 1
Croatia 1
French Guiana 1
Lithuania 1
Monaco 1
Slovenia 1
Turkey 1

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-6/vilamoura/chipcount.html

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept-vilamoura-day-1a-chips.html

Good UK performances so far

simon nowab, 63k gooo

GL to Stu Rutter and John Eames!

gogogogogoogogogoogooogogogogo

+1 Chubbs!

Could be an epic 9-bet pot with blind garbage vs blind garbage if Rob Yong and Chubbs get put on the same table.

This will happen!

Go on the Brits!

Stu and Eames ftw.

The PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura goes into Day 3 tomorrow with 69 players remaining from the original starting field of 322 players. The current chip leader is former chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer with 549,800. The 31-year-old Canadian, a dominant force at the last EPT in Warsaw, was chip leader at the end of Day 1b.

A host of big names are also through including French pro Antony Lellouche in second place, Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser in third place, Danish pro Martin Wendt in fifth place, Belgian PokerStars qualifier Pierre Neuville in seventh and Dutch online phenom Johan Van Til in ninth place.

Among the other players going through to Day 3 are ten PokerStars qualifiers as well as Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann, Alexander Kravchenko, Johannes Strassmann, new Irish Team Pro Jude Ainsworth and local hero Nuno Coelho.

Name Country Status Chips
Jeff Sarwer Canada 549,800
Antony Lellouche France 484,700
Ruben Visser Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 389,500
Ljubomir Josipovic Austria 371,700
Martin Wendt Denmark 360,300
Luis Rodriguez Spain 321,500
Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 270,500
Gino Gabriel UK 264,800
Johan Van Til Netherlands PokerStars player 259,500
Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 230,600
Tobias Reinkemeier Germany 229,200
Matt Johns USA 188,600
Alexey Yuzikov Russi a 179,000
Jesus Sanchez Spain 177,500
James Collopy USA PokerStars qualifier 176,000
Jan Heitmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 173,800
Olaf De Zeeuw Netherlands PokerStars player 172,300
Ross Boatman UK 166,400
Marco Paulo Orlandi Switzerland 164,600
Tome Moreira Portugal 157,000
Manuel Jimenez Cecilia Spain PokerStars qualifier 156,200
Santiago Terrazas Spain PokerStars qualifier 151,200
Dominykas Karmazinas Lithuania PokerStars qualifier 146,900
Antonio Matias Portugal 144,600
Joao Silva Portugal 137,700
Hugo Felix Portugal PokerStars qualifier 136,500
Mohamed Razab Netherlands 134,200
Nicolo Calia Italy 132,600
Aurelien Guiglini France 125,600
Vishal Pundjabi Germany 125,000
Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 120,700
Ismail Erkenov Russia 117,200
Manuel Cadilhe Portugal 116,000
Guillaume Da Silva France 115,000
Rogerio Sousa Portugal 114,000
Ricardo Sousa Portugal 112,800
Robert Willis Ireland 111,200
Joao Barbosa Portugal 109,700
Rumen Nanev Bulgaria 108,900
Michel Abecassis France 104,500
Amir Pirbazari Ireland 100,500
Garcia Cayetano Spain 99,800
Jamel Maistriaux Belgium 99,700
Stefan Mattsson Sweden PokerStars player 99,700
Andrei Vlasenko Russia 99,400
Yergey Lebedev Russia 95,700
Berney Frankfort Netherlands 94,300
Luis Miranda Rodrigues Portugal PokerStars qualifier 92,500
Daniel Drescher Germany 86,800
Javier Garcia Switzerland 84,700
Patrick O'Connor Ireland PokerStars qualifier 80,900
Ryan Franklin United States PokerStars player 80,000
Rolf Slotboom Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 70,400
André Moreira Portugal 67,400
Per Anton Bertilsson Sweden 65,700
Marco Della Tommasina Italy 61,700
Goncalo Santos Portugal 56,800
Steven Van Zadelhoff Netherlands 54,400
Antoon Pieter Jozef Kleijnen Netherlands PokerStars player 50,200
Eduardo Lopez Spain 48,800
Salim Ghozali Algeria 48,100
Filipa Lemos Portugal 47,900
Alexandre Brail France PokerStars qualifier 43,400
Joao Ferreira Portugal 42,100
Claudio Coelho Portugal 40,200
Jan Skampa Czech Republic 31,700
Nuno Coelho Portugal Team PokerStars Pro 28,900
Alexander Kravchenko Russia Team PokerStars Pro 27,100
Andy Black Ireland19,400

Best wishes

Mad Harper
EPT Media Coordinator
http://www.ept.com

gg the Brits

bloody hell, not a good day

fkin jude ainsworth, bottom of the chip count to top 10, wp. gogoggggogo, also mick mccools mate gino.

Rubin Visser must be a lock to win the lot after getting a rubdown in the JP thread other day.

Dear all

Please see below for a list of all 24 Day 3 survivors including chip leader Antony Lellouche, Jeff Sarwer in second place, Portuguese pro Ricardo Sousa in third place and young Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser now fourth.

24 players have already cashed including German Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann and Johannes Strassman, PokerStars player Johan van Til, Danish pro Martin Wendt and Hendon mobster Ross Boatman.

Also still in the running is Irish pro Jude Ainsworth, making his debut appearance as a member of Team PokerStars Pro. A total of 322 players from 30 countries entered the £5,300 main event creating a total prize pool of €1,561,700. The first prize is € 404,793.

The tournament, which runs November 17-22, has attracted some of the best players in the world to the glamorous Vilamoura resort. A total of 69 players won their seats online with PokerStars.

Please see http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept-vil...and-payout-s.html for full list of results so far.


Name Country Status
Antony Lellouche France 1,134,000
Jeff Sarwer Canada 913,500
Ricardo Sousa Portugal 765,000
Ruben Visser Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 749,000
Jan Skampa Czech Republic 562,000
Claudio Coelho Portugal 508,500
Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 491,000
Gino Gabriel UK 385,000
Matt Johns USA PokerStars qualifier 374,000
Joao Barbosa Portugal 362,000
Tome Moreira Portugal 359,000
Santiago Terrazas Spain PokerStars qualifier 351,000
Antonio Matias Portugal 305,000
Ryan Franklin United States PokerStars player 299,500
Joao Silva Portugal 283,500
Andrei Vlasenko Russia 258,500
Aurelien Guiglini France 253,000
Michel Abecassis France 250,000
Mohamed Razab Netherlands 237,500
James Collopy USA PokerStars qualifier 192,500
Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 174,000
Guillaume Da Silva France 167,500
Hugo Felix Portugal PokerStars qualifier 160,500
Javier Garcia Switzerland 140,500

Best wishes

Mad Harper
EPT Media Coordinator
http://www.ept.com

1 - € 404,793
2 - € 257,681
3 - € 156,170
4 - € 117,128
5 - € 78,085
6 - € 62,468
7 - € 46,851
8 - € 31,234

9-10 - € 23,426
11-12 - € 17,180
13-14 - € 13,274
15-16 - € 11,713
17-24 - € 10,151

25 - Nicolo Calia, Italy, €8,589
26 - Olaf De Zeeuw, Holland, €8,589
27 - Jan Heitmann, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €8,589
28 - Alexey Yuzikov, Russia, €8,589
29 - Luis Rodriguez, Spain, €8,589
30 - Amir Pirbazari, Ireland, €8,589
31 - Marco Della Tommasina, Italy, €8,589
32 - Tobias Reikenmeier, Germany, €8,589

33 - Garcia Cayetano, Spain, €8,121
34 - Marco Paulo Orlandi, Switzerland, €8,121
35 - Ross Boatman, UK, €8,121
36 - Per Anton Bertilsson, Sweden, €8,121
37 - Stefan Mattsson, Sweden, €8,121
38 - Martin Wendt, Denmark, €8,121
39 - Jamel Maistriaux, Belgium, €8,121
40 - Ljubomir Josipovic, Austria, €8,121

41 - Berney Frankfort, Holland, €7,652
42 - Johan van Til, Holland, PokerStars player, €7,652
43 - Manuel Cadilhe, Portugal, €7,652
44 - Robert Willis, Ireland, €7,652
45 - Ismail Erkenov, Russia, €7,652
46 - Johannes Strassmann, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €7,652
47 - Eduardo Lopez, Spain, €7,652
48 - Alexandre Brail, France, PokerStars qualifier, €7,652

Players: 322
Total prize pool: €1,561,700

PORTUGUESE BUSINESSMAN WINS EPT VILAMOURA

VILAMOURA, PORTUGAL, November 22, 2009: Portuguese businessman Antonio Matias has won EPT Vilamoura, the richest poker tournament ever held in Portugal, for a first prize of €404,793.

Matias, 54, who runs a travel agency, beat some of the best players in the world to win the €5,300 main event, the richest poker tournament ever held in Portugal. As well as the champion's title, Matias wins a seat into the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next April.

Matias was the first player to win on home soil since Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks in Dortmund last season. He said: "I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world but it is very satisfying win an EPT in my home country. I wasn't intimidated by the competition because I play a lot of very good players in cash games. I just decided to play the way I play, and hope that luck didn't turn its back on me. I play poker just for a hobby but when I got the chip lead yesterday, at that point, the only thing I had on my mind was winning."


The runner-up was Belgian PokerStars qualifier Pierre Neuville. The retired businessman has played numerous EPT events and had his heart set on victory after bubbling the final at EPT San Remo last season. At 67 years old, he was the oldest finalist in EPT history.

Third place finisher was the former chess whizz Jeff Sarwer from Canada. Sarwer has run deep in back-to-back EPTs after finishing tenth at EPT Warsaw last month. French veteran Michel Abecassis came sixth for €62,468 while PokerStars player Ryan Franklin, 18, from Lake Tahoe in the USA came seventh for €46,851.

A total of 322 players took part in the €5,300 main event, including 69 players who won their seats online. The total prize pool was €1,561,700.

More than 20 Team PokerStars Pros took part and among those who cashed were Ruben Visser from Holland, who came 13th, and Irish pro Jude Ainsworth who came 14th. Also in the money were German Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann and Johannes Strassman.

PokerStars players also enjoyed success in the numerous side events that took place during EPT Vilamoura. New Team PokerStars Pro Rino Mathis from Switzerland won the €1k Pot Limit Omaha side event for a first prize of €15,932 while Polish Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki beat a 97-strong field to take down the €330 NLHE Turbo for a first prize of €10,303.

EPT spokesperson Kirsty Thompson said: "It's always exciting when the European Poker Tour visits a new destination and we have wanted to hold an EPT in Portugal for some time so we are delighted that so many players took part including 63 players from Portugal. It's been a superb week of poker."


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Name Country PokerStars status €
1 Antonio Matias Portugal €404,793
2 Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier €257,681
3 Jeff Sarwer Canada €156,170
4 Jan Skampa Czech Republic €117,128
5 João Silva Portugal €78,085
6 Michel Abecassis France €62,468
7 Ryan Franklin USA PokerStars player €46,851
8 Andrei Vlasenko Russia €31,234