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European Poker Tour - San Remo - Day 2
by European Poker Tour 2008   
Thursday, 03 April 2008


EPT San Remo from the Casino San Remo in Italy - Day 2 Summary
One of the biggest prize pools in EPT history was up for grabs and just over 200 players made it to the Casino San Remo for Day 2.  Only the top 72 would make the money and only the top 32 would make it to Day 3.

Italian Max Pescatori was one of the earlier eliminations of Day 2, failing to reach the money, as was Team PokerStars' Daniel Negreanu.  They were joined on the rail by Roland de Wolfe, who had his Q-Q rivered by J-J to keep him from cashing.  Liz Lieu and Antonio Esfandiari each fell short of the money as well.

In just a little over three hours, the field was cut in half.  Soon, the money buble had burst and people were guaranteed €5,750 ($ 8,872 USD).  After the money bubble busted, Dane Theo Jorgensen was knocked out in 70th place, who was joined later by American Brandon Schaefer, 56th, and Rob Holink, 47th.


Here are some of the payouts received Thursday:

35th    $ 17,282  -  Nicolo Calia
36th    $ 17,282  -  Sandro Soncini
37th    $ 17,282  -  Marius Bobinas     
38th    $ 17,282  -  Dennis Doran     
39th    $ 17,282  -  Asger Boye     
40th    $ 17,282  -  Cristian Ragala     
41st    $ 14,813  -  Andrea Cortona     
42nd    $ 14,813  -  Alessio Isaia     
43rd    $ 14,813  -  Raymond Rahme     
44th    $ 14,813  -  Giampiero Coccio     
45th    $ 14,813  -  Henrik Kask     
46th    $ 14,813  -  Rolf Slotboom
47th    $ 14,813  -  Rob Hollink     
48th    $ 14,813  -  Hans Eskilsson     
49th    $ 12,344  -  Hakan Sahl     
50th    $ 12,344  -  Giorgio Marletta     
51st    $ 12,344  -  Jochen Heirman     
52nd    $ 12,344  -   Niels Rikhof     
53rd    $ 12,344  -  Liz Lieu     
54th    $ 12,344  -  Jesse White      
55th    $ 12,344  -  Massimiliano Trifoglio     
56th    $ 12,344  -  Brandon Schaefer     
57th    $ 10,832  -  Luca Mortarino     
58th    $ 10,832  -  Sandro Bellusci     
59th    $ 10,832  -  Steven van Zadelhoff     
60th    $ 10,832  -  Dennis Baratta     
61st    $ 10,832  -  Justin Truesdell     
62nd    $ 10,832  -  Maurizio Marchese     
63rd    $ 10,832  -  Soren Eriksen     
64th    $ 10,832  -  Yung Hwang     
65th    $ 8,872  -  Roberto Masullo     
66th    $ 8,872  -  Matt Kay      
67th    $ 8,872  -  Anders Vind     
68th    $ 8,872  -  Mikael Gibbemark     
69th    $ 8,872  -  Henrik Warn     
70th    $ 8,872  -  Theo Jorgensen     
71st    $ 8,872  -  Filippo Gualtieri     
72nd    $ 8,872  -  Loic Perret


Once again, players who qualified on PokerStars are making a good run, with three of the top four stacks belonging to qualifiers, including the chip leader, American Jason Mercier.  Hometown hero Dario Minieri made a late call to eliminate a player in 32nd place during hand-for-hand play, boosting his stack to #3 on the leaderboard. 


Chip counts heading into Day 3:

Jason Mercier -- US -- PokerStars qualifier -- 684,000
Eric Koskas -- France -- PokerStars qualifier -- 596,000

Dario Minieri -- Italy -- 595,000
Jonas Klausen -- Denmark -- PokerStars qualifier -- 529,000
William Thorson -- Sweden -- 320,000
Antony Lellouche -- France -- 282,000
Mike Sowers -- US -- PokerStars qualifier -- 275,000
Dag Palovic -- Slovakia -- 275,000
Jan Heitmann -- Germany -- 264,000
Johannes Strassman -- Germany -- PokerStars sponsored player -- 255,000
Gregory Genovese -- Italy -- 247,000
Peter Roche -- Ireland -- 219,000
Markus Golser -- Austria -- 213,000
Mark Flowers -- US -- 197,000
Isaac Baron -- US -- 181,000
Marcus Bower -- US -- PokerStars qualifier -- 173,000
Andreas Larsson -- Sweden -- 152,000
Todd Brunson -- US -- 144,000
Terje Augdal -- Norway -- 139,000
Julian Parmann -- US -- PokerStars qualifier -- 138,000
Felipe Ramos -- Brazil -- 129,000
Stefan Raffay -- Denmark -- 124,000
Ezio Guagliata -- Italy -- 123,000
Mads Wissing Andersen -- Denmark -- 120,000
Henrik Brockmann -- Germany -- PokerStars qualifier -- 119,000
Christian Bonde -- Norway -- PokerStars qualifier -- 106,000

Bart Wetsteijn -- Holland -- 101,000
Paul Alterman -- UK -- 86,000
Marco Della Monica -- Italy -- 69,000
Ville Nyman -- Finland -- PokerStars qualifier -- 61,000
Marcello Terracciano -- Italy -- PokerStars qualifier -- 57,000


Day 3 play starts Friday
day at 3 p.m. local Italian time, 2 p.m. GMT and 9 a.m. EST.


Here are the payouts still unclaimed:

1€869,000 (~$1.3 Million USD)
2€505,000
3€287,600
4€233,600
5€188,500
6€140,600
7€111,800
8€76,700
9-10€46,300
11-12€28,750
13-14€22,400
15-16€17,600
17-24€16,000
25-32€12,800


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