Ameer Wakil opened to 2,500 from under the gun and Pablo Jimenez Puerta three-bet to 6,000 from the next seat. Nicolas Vayssieres flat-called on the button and Wakil folded.
Puerta bet 12,000 on the flop of and Vayssieres called. The dealer put out the on the turn and Vayssieres snap-moved all in. Vayssieres squirmed in his chair as he contemplated calling off for his stack of 39,600 and eventually did so.
Nicolas Vayssieres:
Pablo Jimenez Puerta:
Vayssieres had made the right call to be ahead with queens and Puerta groaned and hid his head in his hands as the bricked off on the river to earn Vayssieres a double.
The second and final flight of the£5,300 EPT Main Event at PokerStars European Poker Tour London has wrapped up after ten levels of play and saw Germany's Ole Schemion bagging the chip lead with 280,500 as he chases a Triple Crown feat.
The second and final starting flight of the first EPT London Main Event in eight years saw 452 runners at the start of the day and ended with 156 players, including big stacks Tan Le (277,000), Sonny Franco (253,000) and Marc Macdonnell (243,500) and big names Erik Seidel (87,500), Martin Jacobson (36,500), Chris Moorman (37,000) and PokerStars Team ProBenjamin Spragg.
End of Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Ole Schemion
Austria
280,500
187
2
Tan Le
England
277,000
185
3
Sonny Franco
Morocco
253,000
169
4
Marc Macdonnell
Ireland
243,500
162
5
Sahil Chuttani
India
229,500
153
6
Chris Maguire
England
223,500
149
7
Anthony Desai
England
206,000
137
8
Thomas Hueber
Austria
205,000
137
9
Marc Foggin
England
186,000
124
10
Mohammed Ifzail
England
183,000
122
The remaining Day 1b players will join the 83 survivors from the Day 1a flight — including Anton Wigg, Jack Sinclair, Timothy Adams and PokerStars ambassador Ramon Colillas — for Day 2 on Monday, Oct. 24 at noon local time as they look to chase EPT glory at the luxurious Hilton Park Lane.
Day 1b Action
There were plenty of big pots and memorable hands throughout the ten hours of Day 1b play and many of them took place early.
Up-and-coming poker star Landon Tice was the first casualty of the day after losing most of his stack in a brutal full house versus full house cooler and couldn't make it through Level 1 as he then ran pocket tens into the pocket kings of Samuel Ju.
Other early eliminations include Alex Kulev, Joao Vieira, Samantha Abernathy, Steve O'Dwyer and Sylvain Loosli, who picked up ace-king at the wrong time and couldn't get ahead of the pocket rockets of Jeremy Routier.
WSOP Main Event champ Hossein Ensan was eliminated late in the day when he made a set with his pocket jacks but couldn't get ahead of the straight of Florian Duta with ace-queen.
Late registration remains open until the start of Day 2 and prize pool information will be released at that time.
PokerNews will be back on-site tomorrow bringing you updates on all the Day 2 action, so be sure to stay tuned. In the meantime, check out EPT London live reporting portal.