The European Poker Tour San Remo event has been an interesting one, and it is now down to it’s final eight players. It started off with a solid field of 837 players, and created a prize pool of €3,734,694; with a first place prize of €800,000 going to the eventual winner. The final table bubble boy was a popular player from Norway, Johnny Lodden; who took home a payday of €45,000. There were many big names in the event, ranging from Joseph Cheong, 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champ Elio Fox, Vanessa Selbst, David Bach, Tyler Bonkowski, and many more. Two of the most well-known players currently remaining are Kevin MacPhee and Barny Boatman.
As far as the remaining players go in terms of chip stacks, we see one player who is a bit ahead of the field, as Daniel Neilson is currently holding 6.7 million chips. Currently in second place is Dimitar Danchev, who is from Bulgaria, and is sitting with 4.43 million chips. Neilson has had some good results of his own in the past, as he finished in the top 100 of last year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, and has won a total of $700k in live tournaments in his career.
The players who are currently sitting behind Neilson are Danchev of course with 4.43 million chips, followed by Jan Bendick with 3.98 million, Andrey Pateychuk with 3.1 million, Boatman with 2.5 million, Yorane Kerignard with 2.15 million, Rocco Palumbo with 1.16 million, and MacPhee bringing up the rear with 1.11 million. Each player who made the final table is guaranteed to take home at least €63,000, and the top six finishers will take home more than €130,000. One other player who might stand out from this group is Pateychuk, who is coming off of a 15th place finish at the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Chris McClung was the chip leader heading into the day, but was unable to hold onto his chip lead, and ended up finishing in 14th place. The final day of action will kick off tomorrow until the winner of the 2011 European Poker Tour San Remo event is decided later in the day.