Blinds are now 600/1200 Ante 200 -
Average: 74 090
66 players remaining

Sorel Mizzi has 75 K.

The chip leader is the Italian pro player Daniele Mazzia with around 180 K.

David O'Neil, tournament director, and dealers

Last hands are always bloody hands… and the ECPokerTour is no exception. We saw a lot of bad defeats during the last twenty minutes of this day. 58 players will come back tomorrow, so that means that we lost more than half of the field today.

It’s the end of the day: All of the survivors have to count their chips, and the dealer at each of their tables checks to make sure the count is good. After that, players must write their names on a plastic bag, and put their stack inside.
A redrawing of the seats has been made.

While all the players are counting their chips, I spoke with Fabrice Soulier. “I should have more than 60,000 chips”, he said. “I made a wonderful call: flop is J-J-10, and my opponent check-raise all-in. I have 10-7, and I know he could make this move with any two high cards. I make the call, and I’m right: he has Ace-Queen. He hit the ace on the river. Bing-bang, I’m down to 17,000.”

Chip count at the end of  Day 1:

Chip leader: Sorel Mizzi – 56,800 chips
2: Bo Sehstedt – 50,900
3: Michael Landmann – 47,700
4: Laszlo Kapitzke – 41,200
5: Juuso Leppänen – 39,700
6: Manuel Thiede – 39,600
7: Joao Paulo Aquino – 37,100
8: Casper Toft – 37,100
9: Andreas Schmidt (Titan Team) – 36,100
10: Adam York (Titan Team) – 33,000
11: Sebastian Winkler – 32,200
12: Jerome Jacquemin – 31,800
13: Ralf De Wert – 31,700
14: Richard Sheridan – 30,100
15: Zsolt Cserhati – 29,600
16: Steffen Rachut – 29,200
17: Sebastian Percy-Smith – 29,100
18: Michael Schuchardt – 26,800
19: Kenneth Greaney – 26,200
20: Sean Perry – 25,100
21: Bernt-Philipp Hoff – 24,700
22: Kari Somer – 24,700
23: Jose Manuel Gomez Rebenaque (Titan Team): 24,300
24: Frank Romanello – 24,100
25: Mitja Potocin – 23,900
26: John van de Bruggen – 23,900
27: Wesley Pantling – 23,100
28: Samuel Brown – 21,700
29: Michael Maitre Avalika – 21,600
30: Scott Diver – 20,500
31: Claus Brandt – 20,100
32: David Martinez – 20,100
33: Lasell King – 19,100
34: Olga Pochepskaya – 18,000
35: Alexandre Boukobza – 17,800
36: Ghassan El-Hoss – 17,300
37: Fabrice Soulier – 17,000
38: Andreas Braun – 15,100
39: Eric Cloutier – 15,100
40: Evertjan Dondergoor – 14,100
41: Karl Röntgen – 13,100
42: Ingo Nassall – 12,500
43: Victor Suengas – 12,400
44: William Delfy – 11,900
45: Anthony Manzi – 11,500
46: Anthony Green – 10,900
47: Julio Diaz – 10,900
48: Paul Hersleth – 10,800
49: Richard Gater – 10,500
50: Piotr Rodi – 10,400
51: Artur Okon – 10,400
52: Andrew Pantling – 10,000
53: Gerasimos Deres – 9,900
54: Pavel Kouzmitch – 8,900
55: Sean Entwistle – 8,100
56: Dennis Labbe – 7,900
57: Antonios Papadopoulos – 6,800
58: Christer Jansson – 5,700

Day 2 will start tomorrow at 16:00.