407 players played on Day 2 of EPT Pokerstars.com Prague. The average chipstack at the start of the day was 53,218.
Yann Brosolo and Christophe Benzimra from Team Titan were among the players who had advanced from Day 1. They took their places at noon and began the battle to advance to the next day of the tournament.
Yann Brosolo
A massive field of 477 players registered for Day 1B of EPT Prague and among them the three French players of Team Titan: Christophe Benzimra, Yann Brosolo and Florian Desgouttes . They started the day seated at difficult tables:
Table 27: Christophe Benzimra with Johannes Strassmann, Anton Wigg, Praz Bansi and Melanie Weisner.
Table 18: Florian Desgouttes with Jonathan Duhamel (WSOP Main Event Champion 2010) and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.
Table 10: Yann Brosolo with Dermot Blain and the WSOP 2011 Main Event Champion Pius Heinz.
218 players returned to the poker room of the Corinthia Hotel to play Day 2 of WPT Prague. Team Titan’s Christophe Benzimra took his seat with a stack of 69.8K, just below the average stack.
Christophe Benzimra and Florian Desgouttes
Hello everyone and welcome to Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic. The casino of the Corinthia Hotel is hosting the WPT Prague and Day 1B of the Main Event started at 14:00 with 340 players. Yesterday 231 played Day 1A. With a total playing field of 571 players, WPT Prague sets a new record for the largest WPT staged in Europe.
This is a re-entry tournament which means that the players who were eliminated had the right to buy-in a second time on Day 1B. The structure of this €3,500 NLH re-entry event is the WPT standard structure: 30,000 chips – 1 hour levels with blinds 50/100 to start.
Doyle Brunson and Christophe Benzimra
417 players came back to play the EPT PokerStars London Main Event Day 2 among them were Team Titan’s Marvin Rettenmaier and Christophe Benzimra with respectively 40K and 12.7K, while the average stack was 52K.
Teammates Marvin Rettenmaier and Christophe Benzimra
The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London 2011 Main Event attracted a total of 280 players on Day 1a and 411 players took their seats on Day 1b. Among the players who sat down at the tables on Day 1b were Team Titan’s Marvin Rettenmaier and Christophe Benzimra.
The tournament is taking place in the Hilton Metropole of London City and the structure is the usual one for EPT events. On Day 1, players start with 30,000 chips and there are one-hour levels.
Christophe Benzimra In The Money
Team Titan’s French poker pro Christophe Benzimra finished in 34th place at the prestigious WPT Grand Prix de Paris, staged at the famous Aviation Club de France on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.
His prize was €11,110. Team Titan’s Marvin Rettenmaier was chipleader during an early stage of the tournament but did not finish in the money.
Marvin Rettenmaier and Alexander Debus on Day 5
850 players returned to the Amazon Room at the Rio Casino at noon to play Day 4 of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. Team Titan players, Marvin Rettenmaier, Christophe Benzimra and Alexander Debus were among the finalists seeking to finish in the money.
Marvin Rettenmaier and Christophe Benzimra
2,490 players returned to the action at the Rio in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker Main Event’s Day 2B. They were competing for a chance to join the 805 players who qualified yesterday for Day 3 of the tournament. Among the starters, we followed six Titan Poker players.
The three pro players from Team Titan, Christophe Benzimra, Marvin Rettenmaier and Sam Trickett started Day 2B respectively with 36,375; 47,700; and 36,000 chips alongside three online qualifiers, German player Alexander Debus (57.7K), Andras Balogh (65K) and Miklos Szuffa (13,950).
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