European Poker Tour Vilamoura
Day 2 of the Vilamoura leg of the European Poker Tour has been completed and it is rumoured that many of those who have been eliminated already are heading over to Mayfair to sign up for day 1B of the EPT London. The number who did make it through to Day 3 total 69.
The day started with the young Russian Leonid Bilokur in the chip lead but things went against him all day and he was eventually eliminated.
By the end of Day 2 Brandon Cantu emerged as the chip leader though not by many. He ended with 557,400 chips just a little ahead of the second placed Andre Coimbra who has 476,400 chips. In third place with 384,000 chips was Johan Berg and he was followed by Sam Trickett with 351,900 who is the highest placed Brit, Grzegorz Cichocki with 339,500 and JP Kelly, also a Brit, with 314,000 chips. Two other Brits, Toby Lewis and Teddy Sheringham are still in the action.
Cantu comes from Vancouver and he recently won the WSOP $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split. He is known as the bounty hunter and has been playing in live tournaments for four years. During that time his winnings amount to $3,461,410.
The tournament unfortunately lost both Vicky Coren and Liv Boeree as just seventy players survived into the third day. Daniel Negreanu also failed to make it as did Bertrand Grospellier.
The tournament is taking place in the Vilamoura Resort and Golf Haven in the Algarve, Portugal. The buy in was €5,300 and the tournament lasts for five days. In total 384 players competed in the two opening days which makes it the largest poker tournament ever to be held in the country. The prize pool stands at €1,862,400 and the top prize will be almost €500,000.
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