Live Tournament Update from European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville, World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open and the Aussie Millions.
The first two Aussie Millions events are out of the way and both Mustapha Kanit and Lorenzo Sabato have picked up Championship Rings.
Kanit followed up his sterling work at the recent $25k High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), where he finished in fourth place for a $492,600 score (a career high), with victory in Event #1: $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE).
Kanit outlasted a field of 1,302 players and took the $196,000 first place prize after cutting a deal when he went heads-up with David Lim.
Event #2: $1,100 Mixed (PLO/NLHE) saw a much smaller field of 153 entrants and it was Lorenzo Sabato who took the first prize of $34,200 after beating Oliver Gill in heads up action. Serial Aussie Millions side event winner Mel Judah finished 5th and Jim Collopy took 7th.
Chris Day Leads Day 1A EPT Deauville
The €5,300 European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event has gotten underway and 234 players have checked in to the Day 1A hotel, and after eight levels were played the Englishman Chris Day was the man leading the field after bagging up 154,100 chips, just a single 100 chip more than the Finnish player Jorma Nuutinen who ended with…well you can do the math.
As is the EPT modus operandi they teamed up with the France Poker Series (FPS) to create a 45-event EPT Deauville Poker Festival, and several high profile players were missing from the Day 1A field as they were busy contesting the FPS Main Event and High Roller.
The Dutch player Niels van Leeuwen won the FPS Main Event for €175,000 after 1,095 players entered the event, with 143 players getting paid; and the FPS High Roller has reached it’s unofficial final table with the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) Wembley winner, Jakub Michalak, leading the way with 1.9m chips. Andrea Dato is second with 1.3m.
Jamila von Perger is proving whatever German men can do so can German women, after she continued her recent run of hot form to take the women’s event after defeating Claire Renault in heads-up action for the €4,200 first prize.
Lazaro Hernandez Leads Day 1A WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open
It’s unusual to see three major tournament taking place simultaneously across the world, but that’s exactly what we have this week as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Open also hosts its Main Event.
230 players entered the first day of action and it was Lazaro Hernandez who bagged up more than anyone else with 258,175 chips. Former World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10k Main Event runner up John Racener sits in second with 186,250.
A few of the notables to bust on Day 1A included Vanessa Selbst, Jeff Madsen, Erick Lindgren and Chino Rheem.
