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
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