Yesterday Day 1 of what is going to be the most expensive tournament of this year was played EPT Chipre. He $50k Super High Roller yesterday achieved a total of 36 records, A figure that could increase with last-minute registrations today before the cards start flying.
The most outstanding player of the day was Vicente Delgado, who finished Day 1 as the chip leader after having to shoot two bullets. In it Level 4 was blown up by Vladimir Korizinin, the one from Estepona had fallen very short and was flirting with elimination in some all-in and call. He managed to double up on one occasion, but lost a KcQs against him Ad4d from Estonian and had to buy back.
The story was very different with that second bullet. Vicente He started hitting and his stack didn’t stop growing. He killed Juan Pardo after winning a flip, he put on the hero’s cape to pay and eliminate with second pair Samuel Mullur in a giant boat and also loaded Morten Klein with a set of fours that crushed Klein’s two pairs. All this made him end the day with 1,880,000 points, which will be more than 300 blinds on the restart.
But Vicente He was not the only Spaniard who had to shoot on more than one occasion. Juan Pardo fired two bullets and Adrian Mateos He was the only one in the entire field who decided to shoot up to 3 times.
When the action stopped at the end of Level 8, only 16 players were left standing. Juan Pardo practically had the initial stack with 262.000 points and Adrian Mateos closed the bag with 192.000 being the second shortest player only ahead of Dimitar Danchev.
At the top of the table we find Artur Maritrosianwho despite being the second player who managed to amass the most chips on Day 1 with almost four initial stacks, has half the points of the leader Vicente Delgado.
Today we will know how many players will be able to enter ITM in this tournament and the prize that the winner will take. Juan Pardo is the current champion of this tournament, which last year had a total of 46 records and won a prize 688.560 $ after agreeing with Vicente Delgado at the HU Will Codelsa manage to surpass last year’s runner-up? There is still a lot of fabric left to cut, tomorrow we will tell you what happens today on Day 2.
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