EPT Dortmund Day 1A: Thorson Leading
The PokerStars European Poker Tour made its stop at Dortmund, Germany, for its newest tournament. 306 players entered the first play day but only a third of them made it and Swedish William Thorson is the one leading them all.
The newest stop for the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) is Germany- Dortmund, to be precise - and over 300 players joined the tables in
Day 1A. 115 of them survived the day and they are all lead by the
Swedish player William Thorson, who built a stack of 84,500 chips.
Notable
names joined the action on Day 1A, including the likes of
Alexander Kravchenk, Ivan Demidov, Johannes Strassmann, Rolf Slotboom,
Soren Kongsgaard or Barny Boatman. However, not all of them will be returning on Day 2: Demidov, Boatman, Rasmus Nielsen and Roberto Romanello were sent to the rail during this first day.
PokerStrategists were at the tables as well, and 2 of them are actually in the top 10: Jan jan1000 Collado-Fernandez (3rd), Tobias pokernoob Reinkemeier, Holger tonding Kanisch (6th) and Julian br0nx Hasse have survived the eight levels and will be returning to the tables on Day 2.
Day 1B also promises some big names joining in, including Peter
Eastgate, Bertrand Grospellier, Dario Minieri and Marcel Luske amongst
others, with an estimaded field of over 400 to be seen tomorrow. As for
our own community, nolimitprojekt, alexander2207, terraner86 and thorsten77 have confirmed they will be playing. ragen, who recently won the Titan Poker 2.5 Million, will also try to attend but he is not yet sure if he will be able to do so.
Below you can find the biggest 10 chip stacks at the end of Day 1A:
| EPT Dortmund Day 1A Standings |
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| Rank | Name | Chips | |
| 1st | William Thorson | 84,500 | |
| 2nd | Robert Zipf | 72,300 | |
| 3rd | Jan Collado-Fernandez | 71,100 | |
| 4th | Martin Bjerring | 70,500 | |
| 5th | Jens Wiegel | 69,300 | |
| 6th | Holger Kanisch | 69,000 | |
| 7th | Petter Petersson | 65,800 | |
| 8th | Sebastian Zink | 64,100 | |
| 9th | Dino Dinler | 63,100 | |
| 10th | Michael Kwiek | 62,700 | |
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