The European Poker Tour London Main Event, sponsored by PokerStars, hosted its second official day of action on Sunday. After five levels of play lasting 75 minutes each, online poker pro Benny Spindler led the field with nearly 470,000 chips.
Spindler made professional poker headlines just a couple of weeks ago when he won $502k in a single week, playing over 25,000 cash game hands at PokerStars.com against some of the best high stakes players in the world. His current lead at EPT London is no fluke, as he also led the event on Day 1b with 160,800 chips.
Day 1b was all about Team PokerStars, with a number of the site’s sponsored pros moving on to Day 2. The roster included names like Angel Guillen, Ville Wahlbeck, Vicky Coren, Ana Marquez, Noah Boeken, George Danzer, JP Kelly, Ivan Demidov, Barry Greenstein, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Matthias De Meulder, Victor Ramdin, Jason Mercier, Vanessa Rousso and Joe Hachem. Only Ruthenberg, Mercier and Marquez will return on Day 3, and Ruthenberg has the best chip positioning with 169,900.
David Vamplew, the outright winner of the 2010 EPT London Main Event, hit the rail during Day 2 and guaranteed that a new champion would be crowned in 2011. Other notables to hit the rail included Dominik Nitsche, Nick Binger, Soren Kongsgaard, Mickey Petersen, Sam Chartier, Surinder Sunar, Scott Selver, Jonathan Karamalikis, Justin Bonomo and Cornel Cimpan.
Spindler will face some tough and incredibly experienced competition on Day 3 however, in the form of the legendary Doyle Brunson. Although Brunson’s star presence diminished slightly on Day 2 after all players had gotten their pictures and autographs, his chip stack did not. Brunson built up a cool 200k before the day’s conclusion, giving him excellent positioning for Day 3.
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