/ Matthew Pitt / 29 April 2011 / Leave a Comment 
The European Poker Tour is currently in Italy for the penultimate stop of Season 7 and some of poker's biggest names have taken to the felt at San Remo over the two official Day 1s.
There were 438 players who entered on Day 1a whilst a further 549 passed through the doors of the casino armed with €5,300 apiece, which they exchanged for 30,000 tournament chips. Although the total attendance of 987 is way down on last year's 1,239 the prizepool on offer is still a very impressive €4,786,950 and that will be shared out amongst the top 144 finishers, each of those walking away with between €7,500 and a mammoth €930,000.
Across the two starting days there were 460 survivors, but Liv Boeree is not amongst them. Boeree won this very event last year but she never got going in this event and slipped away during Day 1b. Some of the players who did make it safely through to Day 2 included five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Ted Forrest and living legend, Barry Greenstein.
Going into Day 2 at the top of the chip counts is Ruben Visser, a Dutch tournament specialist who has more than $830,000 in online poker tournament winnings and a further $325,000 from live events. His best finish in an EPT was in 2009 when he came 14th at EPT Vilamoura but he will be looking to best that finish and carry the momenttum from Day 1b with him, a day of poker that saw him finish with 251,500 chips. He is joined at the top by the Lebonese pro, Nicolas Chouity on 233,400 chips. Chouity is currently ranked 91st in the World for online tournament play and has winnings in excess of $1,580,000 from them. He is also extremely dangerous in the live arena, having won more than $2,450,000 from live tournaments, the bulk made up from his win in the EPT Grand Final last year, which netted him a life-changing €1,700,000.
Also in with a shout of going deep at EPT San Remo are Ivan Demidov, John Eames, Roberto Romanello, Vitaly Lunkin, EPT London winner David Vamplew, Vanessa Selbst and the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event winner, Joe Cada. Each of the players will have to play five 75-minute levels today if they are to make it back to the beautiful Casino San Remo for a third day.
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