Gestern schien ein sehr guter Tag für die polnische Poker Community gewesen zu sein. Neben dem Runner-Up beim EPT Super High Roller Turnier mit Dzmitry Urbanovich für €1,446,600, konnte sich sein Landsmann Jose Carlo Garcia beim €10.600 EPT Grand Final Main Event den Chiplead erspielen. Insgesamt kauften sich 219 Spieler in Tag 1A ein und mit 182.800 durfte Garcia den größten Chipstack eintüten. Bester deutschsprachiger Spieler nach dem ersten Starttag ist wie so oft Ole Schemion mit 121.600 Chips.
Bis jetzt konnten sich 113 Spieler für Tag 2 qualifizieren, aber am heute startenden Tag 1B werden mit Sicherheit noch zahlreiche Spieler hinzukommen.
Als kleiner Überblick, die bisherigen EPT Grand Final Main Event Gewinner:
Season 1 – Rob Hollink, 211 players, €635,000
Season 2 – Jeff Williams, 298 players, €900,000
Season 3 – Gavin Griffin, 706 players, €1,825,010
Season 4 – Glen Chorny, 842 players, €2,020,000
Season 5 – Pieter De Korver, 935 players, €2,300,000
Season 6 – Nicolas Chouity, 848 players, €1,700,000
Season 7 – Ivan Freitez, 686 players, €1,500,000
Season 8 – Mohsin Charania, 665 players, 1,350,000
Season 9 – Steve O’Dwyer, 531 players, €1,224,000
Season 10 – Antonio Buonanno, 650 players, €1,240,000
Anbei die Chipcounts nach Tag 1A:
| Name | Country | Chips |
| Jose Carlos Garcia | Poland | 182.800 |
| Joao Simao | Brazil | 179.100 |
| Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 168.000 |
| Roger Hairabedian | France | 153.800 |
| Charlie Carrel | UK | 153.000 |
| Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 138.800 |
| Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 132.300 |
| Ole Schemion | Germany | 121.600 |
| Andre Akkari | Brazil | 114.900 |
| Steve O`Dwyer | Ireland | 109.000 |
| Mikhail Kovalyuk | Russia | 106.600 |
| Anton Astapau | Belarus | 98.300 |
| Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 95.600 |
| Ivan Luca | Argentina | 91.300 |
| Dimitar Danchev | Bulgaria | 89.600 |
| Atanas Malinov | Bulgaria | 89.300 |
| Vladislav Donchev | Bulgaria | 88.600 |
| Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 85.100 |
| Andreas Eiler | Germany | 84.000 |
| Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 82.000 |
| Quan Zhou | China | 81.900 |
| Pascal Hartmann | Germany | 81.600 |
| Piotr Franczak | Poland | 81.200 |
| David Dayan | Brazil | 78.500 |
| Nikolay Tsanev | Bulgaria | 76.900 |
| Immanuel Eike Siebert | Germany | 76.900 |
| Volkan Altuntas | France | 76.600 |
| Pierre Oliver Jandaud | France | 76.300 |
| Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 76.000 |
| Aviv Meir | Israel | 75.900 |
| Jason Mercier | USA | 74.900 |
| Alexander Timokhin | Czech Republic | 72.600 |
| Anatoly Chen | Russia | 72.600 |
| JC Alvarado | Mexico | 72.500 |
| Viacheslav Goryachev | Russia | 72.500 |
| Noah Vaillancourt | Canada | 69.200 |
| Giuliano Bendinelli | Italy | 68.200 |
| Alexandre Amiel | France | 68.000 |
| Patrick Leonard | UK | 65.900 |
| Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 65.500 |
| Ivan Soshnikov | Russia | 64.700 |
| Muhyedine Fares | Senegal | 64.700 |
| Paul Byrne | UK | 63.700 |
| Andrey Demidov | Russia | 60.400 |
| Andrew Chen | Canada | 58.500 |
| Juan Martin Pastor | Argentina | 57.600 |
| Josh Prager | USA | 56.800 |
| Israel Arie Zilberman | Israel | 56.100 |
| Hani El Assaad | Lebanon | 55.100 |
| Connor Drinan | USA | 54.000 |
| Dan Heimiller | USA | 53.200 |
| Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | 51.500 |
| Joep van der Bijgaart | Netherlands | 50.800 |
| Mariano Martiradonna | Italy | 49.900 |
| Mike McDonald | Canada | 49.500 |
| Joao Barbosa | Portugal | 47.000 |
| Didier Pitcho | France | 46.500 |
| Omer Shaked | Israel | 45.900 |
| Adria Maria Balaguer | Malta | 45.600 |
| Randal Flowers | USA | 44.600 |
| Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 43.500 |
| Ilkin Amirov | Russia | 43.000 |
| Makoto Yoshimichi | Japan | 42.500 |
| Martin Jacobson | Sweden | 42.000 |
| Victor Ilyukhin | UK | 41.900 |
| Souhail Nassar | Netherlands | 41.500 |
| Diogo Cardoso | Portugal | 41.400 |
| Felix Bleiker | Switzerland | 40.400 |
| Mike Watson | Canada | 39.100 |
| Pierre Merlin | France | 39.100 |
| Niall Murray | UK | 38.700 |
| Emanoil Savin | Romania | 38.000 |
| Jonathan Khalifa | France | 37.100 |
| Samir Hadad | Canada | 37.000 |
| Michael Brinkenhoff | USA | 35.700 |
| Benjamin Pollak | UK | 35.100 |
| Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 34.400 |
| Jonathan Bensadoun | France | 34.100 |
| Jean Montury | France | 34.000 |
| Isaac Haxton | USA | 33.200 |
| Kostyantyn Kondakov | Monaco | 33.100 |
| Ibrahim Ghassan | Lebanon | 32.400 |
| Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 32.100 |
| Oliver Weis | Germany | 30.700 |
| Rainer Kempe | Germany | 29.000 |
| Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 28.000 |
| Kevin Dodelande | France | 27.400 |
| Kevin MacPhee | USA | 27.100 |
| Younas Yousaf | Denmark | 26.500 |
| Ricardo Fasanaro | Brazil | 26.400 |
| Stefan Huber | Switzerland | 25.700 |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | USA | 25.700 |
| Maksim Reshetov | Russia | 24.800 |
| Stefan Grunewald | Germany | 24.400 |
| Temur Zukhbaia | Ukraine | 23.700 |
| Maria Ho | USA | 23.600 |
| Stephen Chidwick | UK | 22.800 |
| Fabian Quoss | Germany | 22.200 |
| Andrei Streltsou | Belarus | 21.700 |
| Pavel Veksler | Israel | 20.900 |
| Alexander Uskov | Russia | 20.800 |
| Ollie Price | UK | 20.300 |
| Scott Davies | USA | 20.000 |
| John Duthie | UK | 19.600 |
| Sam Cohen | USA | 18.900 |
| Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 17.900 |
| Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 16.000 |
| Steven Zhou | Australia | 15.800 |
| Antonino Venneri | Italy | 14.500 |
| Henry Fewster | UK | 12.800 |
| Alexander Kuzmin | Russia | 9.500 |
| Dejan Pustoslemsek | Slovenia | 8.000 |
| Jason Koon | USA | 7.600 |
