2022 PokerStars EPT London

��5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2022 PokerStars EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
£664,400
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,300
Prize Pool
£3,632,650
Entries
749
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
452
Players Left
156

Schemion Leads Last Starting Flight of ��5,300 EPT London Main Event

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Ole Schemion
Ole Schemion

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.

Schemion, who has $17.8 million in Hendon Mob earnings, took down the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) European Championship in Berlin for �218,435 and won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2021 in Event #79: $1,979 Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold��em. The German poker pro now looks to add an EPT Main Event title to his decorated poker resume.

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 Pro Benjamin Spragg.

End of Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Ole SchemionAustria280,500187
2Tan LeEngland277,000185
3Sonny FrancoMorocco253,000169
4Marc MacdonnellIreland243,500162
5Sahil ChuttaniIndia229,500153
6Chris MaguireEngland223,500149
7Anthony DesaiEngland206,000137
8Thomas HueberAustria205,000137
9Marc FogginEngland186,000124
10Mohammed IfzailEngland183,000122

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.

Landon Tice
Landon Tice

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.

Hossein Ensan
Hossein Ensan

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.

Tags: Alex KulevAnton WiggChris MoormanErik SeidelJack SinclairJeremy RoutierJoao VieiraLandon TiceMarc MacdonnellMartin JacobsonOle SchemionRamon ColillasSamantha AbernathySamuel JuSonny FrancoSteve O'DwyerSylvain LoosliTimothy Adams