Tournament Tidbits
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- It's worth mentioning that we started Day 1a with just one lady on the felt, and she's still alive and kicking. Fatima Travanca qualified for this event via PokerStars, and as far as we can tell, she's never cashed in a live tournament. She's holding steady with 29,800 chips at the moment.
- We also have one redhead left in our Day 1a crowd. It's Ireland's Dermot Blain, and he's sitting with about 46,500 chips right now. Blain is perhaps best known for his fifth-place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, but astute followers will remember his APPT victory in Macau back in 2009. Blain has more than $1 million in career earnings, and he's looking to add an EPT trophy to his mantle this week in Madrid.
- We also have (at least) one gentleman who's surviving his starting day with large doses of pain killers. It's not been that long since Arnaud Mattern had the cast removed from his right ankle, maybe just a couple months since he healed from that tennis injury. He's done it again, unfortunately. Mattern twisted up his other ankle this morning as he tried to catch the shuttle to the casino, and he's suffering through play with his foot resting up on top of a chair and beneath a big bag of ice. At least he's medicated.
- JC Alvarado might be medicating himself right now, too. Alvarado's table was the last one to break, but he was absent from the process. A secondary scan of the room turned up nothing, and we think it's safe to say Alvarado has been eliminated.
- November Niner Eoghan O'Dea is playing very patiently here today, as he tends to do early in tournaments. He's got about 18,000 chips in front of him right now.
- Martins Adeniya is still the chip leader, though his stack has slipped just a bit to about 119,000.
- Headphone count: 17
- Sunglasses count: 18
- Hoodie count: 28
- Scarf count: 2