PTS AT STAKE: MONSTER NUMBERS AS LIV BOEREE DEFENDS EPT SAN REMO TITLE

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Now that's what I call a turnout! We were 13 players short of 1,000 runners when Day 1B started at EPT San Remo earlier today - 1,000 people putting up over 7,500 US! Very, very impressive, well done San Remo!

986 players were chasing player 987, defending champion Liv Boeree. That's right, it's at this time last year that Liv jumped to poker super stardom. Unfortunately, Liv's reign was short-lived - she was eliminated from tournament play shortly after the dinner break.

Other notable eliminations from Day 1B included: Kevin MacPhee, Saundra Naujoks, PTPR #9 Ranked Player Michael Tureniec, WSOP defeding Champ Jonathan Duhamel, elkY Grospellier and EPT Berlin Champ Ben Wilinofsky.

Meanwhile, the Vanessa Selbst watch is on. Hot off her NAPT Mohegan Sun repeat, Selbst will enter Day 2 in the top 20 chip stacks.

Defending EPT Grand Final Champion Nicolas Chouity sits second in chips after Day 1 play while Victor Ramdin made quite the amazing comeback from nearly no chips to a end-of-day Top 10 chip stack.

Here are the notable chip stacks heading into Day 2 play:

Ruben Visser 251500 (chip leader)
Nicolas Chouity 233400
Victor Ramdin 190500
David Vamplew 166700
Alain Roy 165300
Vanessa Selbst 161500
Carter Phillips 145800
Ramzi Jelassi 143400
Andras Nemeth 142100
Quoc Trung Nguyen 140200
Joe Cada 135500
Martin Hruby Team PokerStars Pro 131400
Roberto Romanello 119000
Stefan Huber 116700
Sergio Castelluccio 115400
Mayu Roca Uribe 114700

An incredible 144 players will get paid this week:
1 €930,000
2 €600,000
3 €360,000
4 €290,000
5 €220,000
6 €170,000
7 €125,000
8 €81,950
9-10 €50,000
11-12 €40,000
13-14 €35,000
15-16 €30,000
17-24 €25,000
25-32 €22,500
33-40 €20,000
41-48 €17,500
49-64 €15,000
65-80 €13,000
81-96 €11,000
97-120 €9,000
121-144 €7,500


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour San Remo
EPT San Remo NLH Main Event
April 27-May 3, 2011

Casino San Remo
San Remo, ITA

Buy-in: $7,650
Prizepool: $7,094,259
Entries: 987

Defending Champion: Liv Boeree

POINTS AT STAKE
1st position 134
2nd position 84
3rd position 54
4th position 44
5th position 39
6-7th position 34
8-11th position 19
12-15th position 17
16-18th position 14