Ho, Mateos Lead as €10K Grows
After the first 90 minutes of the day, the field in the €10,300 opening event has grown to 65 entries with 38 of them remaining. Among the new entries that took a seat today are Jack Salter, Imad Derwiche, Ali Reza Fatehi and Patrik Antonius, although the Finnish high staker already hit the rail shortly after entering.
More players have busted but are back on a second bullet, such as Orpen Kisacikoglu, Philipp Gruissem, Ole Schemion, Sylvain Loosli and Bryn Kenney. Maria Ho is the presumable chipleader with a stack of 245,000, shortly followed by Adrian Mateos (230,000). Timothy Adams (185,000), Mustapha Kanit (140,000) and Benjamin Pollak (135,000) are also way above the average stack of 85,000.
The €1,100 EPT National has also kicked off its first of three starting days, with 269 entries taking their seats in the early levels of the day. Players receive 30,000 in chips to start with and a single reentry per flight is allowed. Ten levels of 60 minutes await them before chips are bagged for the night. The flight then continues on Thursday until the money has been reached.
