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After yesterday's 234-strong field managed to boast a grand total of one - one - woman in the shape of Almira Skripchenko who did not, in the event, proceed to Day 2, today's tally of four women playing the tournament seems a little more respectable.
That's right, almost one whole percent of the field today consisted of female poker players - and weirdly, two of them are seated next to each other right now. Alexia Portal, the French actress turned poker player who narrowly missed out on a final table at EPT Deauville, has just been moved next door to Maria Maceiras, sister of Team PokerStars Pro Juan Maceiras and a successful pro in her own right. Portal has position on Maceiras, and right now has the chip advantage too - she's at 53,000 to Maceiras' 25,000 or so. Also at their table are Boris Becker and Khiem Nguyen.
The other two ladies playing Day 1b have had similarly mixed fortunes. Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo has fallen a little from her earlier 83,000 high point - but at 70,000 now she's still got around twice the average stack. Meanwhile Hungary's Kati Jerney, who made the last two tables at EPT San Remo in 2009, will definitely not be repeating the result here in Vienna - she's already busto.