Schemion Leads Last Starting Flight of ￡5,300 EPT London Main Event
The second and final flight of the￡5,300 EPT Main Event at PokerStars European Poker Tour London has wrapped up after ten levels of play and saw Germany's Ole Schemion bagging the chip lead with 280,500 as he chases a Triple Crown feat.
Schemion, who has $17.8 million in Hendon Mob earnings, took down the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) European Championship in Berlin for €218,435 and won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2021 in Event #79: $1,979 Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. The German poker pro now looks to add an EPT Main Event title to his decorated poker resume.
The second and final starting flight of the first EPT London Main Event in eight years saw 452 runners at the start of the day and ended with 156 players, including big stacks Tan Le (277,000), Sonny Franco (253,000) and Marc Macdonnell (243,500) and big names Erik Seidel (87,500), Martin Jacobson (36,500), Chris Moorman (37,000) and PokerStars Team Pro Benjamin Spragg.
End of Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ole Schemion | Austria | 280,500 | 187 |
| 2 | Tan Le | England | 277,000 | 185 |
| 3 | Sonny Franco | Morocco | 253,000 | 169 |
| 4 | Marc Macdonnell | Ireland | 243,500 | 162 |
| 5 | Sahil Chuttani | India | 229,500 | 153 |
| 6 | Chris Maguire | England | 223,500 | 149 |
| 7 | Anthony Desai | England | 206,000 | 137 |
| 8 | Thomas Hueber | Austria | 205,000 | 137 |
| 9 | Marc Foggin | England | 186,000 | 124 |
| 10 | Mohammed Ifzail | England | 183,000 | 122 |
The remaining Day 1b players will join the 83 survivors from the Day 1a flight — including Anton Wigg, Jack Sinclair, Timothy Adams and PokerStars ambassador Ramon Colillas — for Day 2 on Monday, Oct. 24 at noon local time as they look to chase EPT glory at the luxurious Hilton Park Lane.
Day 1b Action
There were plenty of big pots and memorable hands throughout the ten hours of Day 1b play and many of them took place early.
Up-and-coming poker star Landon Tice was the first casualty of the day after losing most of his stack in a brutal full house versus full house cooler and couldn't make it through Level 1 as he then ran pocket tens into the pocket kings of Samuel Ju.
Other early eliminations include Alex Kulev, Joao Vieira, Samantha Abernathy, Steve O'Dwyer and Sylvain Loosli, who picked up ace-king at the wrong time and couldn't get ahead of the pocket rockets of Jeremy Routier.
WSOP Main Event champ Hossein Ensan was eliminated late in the day when he made a set with his pocket jacks but couldn't get ahead of the straight of Florian Duta with ace-queen.
Late registration remains open until the start of Day 2 and prize pool information will be released at that time.
PokerNews will be back on-site tomorrow bringing you updates on all the Day 2 action, so be sure to stay tuned. In the meantime, check out EPT London live reporting portal.