Reporters within the press rooms of the ecu Poker Tour are fortunate enough to have a small but dedicated team of EPT media co-ordinators channelling all of the important information from the tournament floor to their laptops. By "small", I mean very small. For the past 11 years, it's just about just been the indefatigable Mad Harper pestering the best people to get the best news after which forwarding it directly to we all spoiled children, who never show enough gratitude. C'est la vie.
Anyway, one in every of Harper's tasks in the course of the opening flights is to send over updated player lists telling us exactly who has signed up and sat down. As increasingly players register for the tournament, we get an increasing number of "provisional" lists. Registration doesn't close until Day 2, so we never get a "confirmed" list until then and it becomes something of an inbox-clogging tradition to trace the "provisional" lists until we finally go home.
Today's first provisional list had 101 names on it. That had gone as much as 176 by list two. There have been 203 names at the third iteration and essentially the most recent, "Provisional List 4", has 216. There at the moment are greater than that. The tournament board shows that 219 players signed up. Prepare for Provisional List 5!
We're now on the half-way point of this opening day and a few persons are starting to build stacks. So far as I WILL BE ABLE TO see, Nicholas Markou, an American player with a small choice of cashes to his name, has probably the most with about 115,000. That's with reference to four times his starting stack, so is excellent going.
Johnny Lodden, of Team PokerStars Pro, is breathing down his neck with about 98,000. That's at time of writing, at least, and Lodden could easily have double that or none of that by now. Such is the life with the swingy Norwegian.
Lodden's fellow Red Spades are putting on a good show at this very early stage. Leo Margets and Fatima Moreira de Melo both have about 53,000. Jason Mercier and Jake Cody had about 43,000 and 40,000 respectively.
Isaac Haxton of Team Online and Dominik Panka, sponsored here by PokerStars, have 38,000 apiece. Only Eugene Katchalov has slightly fewer than his starting stack, and at 28,000 with blinds at 150/300, he's hardly going to be panicking.
Among the opposite notables within the field, James Dempsey has 55,000. Jannick Wrang has 43,000 and David Vamplew 26,000.
We have already lost one big name, however, as Jorryt van Hoof, who's currently chip leader heading into the November Nine, has gone broke. Simon Taberham rivered a straight to bust Van Hoof, who is normally happy to get the bad beats out of how here.
They are playing another two levels, then heading on a dinner break, after which playing another two after that.
Follow our coverage of the EPT London festival via the primary EPT London page, where there are hand-by-hand updates and chip counts within the panel on the top and have pieces below. Coverage of the overall table of the UKIPT Main Event is at the UKIPT page.
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