Joao Simao Leads € 2K NL Event
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Brazilian pro Joao Simao has a substantial lead for Day 2 of the €2k NL event (#23). The 25-year-old from Belo Horizonte has 239,500, some way ahead of Russian player Viatcheslav Ortynskiy with 177,900. Simao is a regular in both Latin American and European events with his two biggest results coming in the Brazilian Series Of Poker – runner-up in last June’s Sao Paulo High Roller and winning the same event in 2012. He first came to notice in Europe when in finished 15th in the EPT8 Grand Final in Madrid.
There are 95 players still in contention for the €159,500 first prize from the 425 who enterd. They include EPT Vilamoura champion Toby Lewis and EPT Copenhagen champ Anton Wigg who has already won one side event here at #EPT100 - the €2k NLH / PLO Turbo for €70,800. The €824,500 prize pool will be divided up between 63 players. Last year there were 172 entries with Fred Weiss taking the €77,580 first prize.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Seppo Paavo Parkkinen | Finland | 25,800 |
| 1 | 2 | Izak Muday | Turkey | 46,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Ben Warrington | United Kingdom | 38,900 |
| 1 | 4 | Alexander Ivanov | Russian Federation | 44,800 |
| 1 | 5 | Andreas Freund | Austria | 77,600 |
| 1 | 6 | Adriaan Schaap | Netherlands | 31,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Winfred Yu | China | 24,300 |
| 1 | 8 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 152,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Konstantin Tolokno | Russian Federation | 20,500 |
| 2 | 2 | George Phiniotis | Cyprus | 69,100 |
| 2 | 4 | Dragan Kostic | Spain | 28,400 |
| 2 | 5 | Maximos Pertsinidis | Greece | 132,200 |
| 2 | 6 | Daniel Engels | Germany | 58,700 |
| 2 | 7 | Younas R√∏nhoff Yousaf | Denmark | 31,500 |
| 2 | 8 | Connor Drinan | United States | 15,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Artur Barbosa | Portugal | 64,200 |
| 3 | 2 | paolo morris | United Kingdom | 90,200 |
| 3 | 3 | Bowdy Tolhopf | New Zealand | 46,900 |
| 3 | 5 | Daniel Augustower Burcarovsky | Uruguay | 35,800 |
| 3 | 6 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 239,500 |
| 3 | 7 | Basem Hamed | Jordan | 96,400 |
| 3 | 8 | Rufat Mahmudov | Azerbaijan | 60,300 |
| 4 | 1 | Doug Polk | United States | 32,200 |
| 4 | 2 | Igor Kotyk | Ukraine | 59,200 |
| 4 | 3 | Jan Przysucha | Poland | 43,200 |
| 4 | 4 | Vladimir Schemelev | Russian Federation | 41,800 |
| 4 | 5 | Viatcheslav Ortynskiy | Russian Federation | 177,900 |
| 4 | 6 | Ondrej Vinklarek | Czech Republic | 34,800 |
| 4 | 7 | Ivan Soshnikov | Russian Federation | 20,800 |
| 4 | 8 | Paul Berende | Netherlands | 55,600 |
| 5 | 1 | Massimo Di Cicco | Italy | 36,500 |
| 5 | 2 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 31,700 |
| 5 | 3 | Agostino Pecorario | Italy | 24,700 |
| 5 | 4 | Giuseppe Madonna | Italy | 21,100 |
| 5 | 5 | Malte Monnig | Germany | 87,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Jari Mahonen | Finland | 17,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Giuliano Bendinelli | Italy | 89,300 |
| 5 | 8 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 125,900 |
| 6 | 1 | Jessica Drissi | France | 45,100 |
| 6 | 2 | Simon Grabenschweiger | Austria | 138,800 |
| 6 | 3 | Carter Swidler | Canada | 57,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Stelyan Georgiev | Bulgaria | 62,900 |
| 6 | 5 | Jiajie Liang | China | 120,700 |
| 6 | 6 | Jonathan Karamalikis | Australia | 15,600 |
| 6 | 7 | Ariel Malnik | Lithuania | 27,800 |
| 6 | 8 | Antonio Buonanno | Italy | 40,000 |
| 7 | 1 | Daniel Todorov | Bulgaria | 60,900 |
| 7 | 2 | Ariel Mantel | Argentina | 121,200 |
| 7 | 3 | Nuri Hakan Demircioglu | Turkey | 50,000 |
| 7 | 4 | Aze Dovlatov | Azerbaijan | 13,600 |
| 7 | 5 | Nuno Cabral | Portugal | 63,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Keith Johnson | United Kingdom | 7,800 |
| 7 | 7 | Willie Tann | United Kingdom | 12,700 |
| 7 | 8 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 115,000 |
| 8 | 1 | Toby Lewis | United Kingdom | 121,200 |
| 8 | 2 | Darie Vlad | Romania | 175,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Radu Catoiu | Romania | 24,300 |
| 8 | 5 | Mario Reyes Navarro | Chile | 22,500 |
| 8 | 6 | Ihar Soika | Belarus | 45,300 |
| 8 | 7 | Jason Mo | United States | 63,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Gheorghe Caplescu | Romania | 51,900 |
| 9 | 1 | Guy Goossens | Belgium | 33,000 |
| 9 | 2 | Francesco Delfoco | Italy | 15,000 |
| 9 | 3 | Gavin O`Rourke | Ireland | 43,900 |
| 9 | 4 | Benoit Albiges | France | 36,000 |
| 9 | 5 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 44,700 |
| 9 | 6 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand | 88,300 |
| 9 | 7 | Philippe Ktorza | France | 12,900 |
| 9 | 8 | Arkan Akin | Switzerland | 91,900 |
| 10 | 1 | Marco Lang | Canada | 16,900 |
| 10 | 2 | Jason Les | United States | 23,500 |
| 10 | 3 | Andrew Christopher Hills | United Kingdom | 53,200 |
| 10 | 4 | Anatoly Korochenskiy | Russian Federation | 32,900 |
| 10 | 5 | Adrian Mateos Diaz | Spain | 48,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Refo Timucin Locher | Switzerland | 30,800 |
| 10 | 7 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 31,400 |
| 10 | 8 | Sergio Grosso | Italy | 13,500 |
| 11 | 1 | Oskar Fogel | Sweden | 21,400 |
| 11 | 2 | Zachary Korik | United States | 45,100 |
| 11 | 3 | Carlos Leoncio Mironiuk | Argentina | 26,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Griffin Benger | Canada | 26,700 |
| 11 | 5 | Michael Flanagan | Canada | 35,800 |
| 11 | 6 | Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 50,700 |
| 11 | 7 | Tonny Van Eck | Netherlands | 73,100 |
| 11 | 8 | Filippo Lazzaretto | Italy | 27,900 |
| 12 | 1 | Markus Kivipuro | Finland | 32,100 |
| 12 | 2 | Tomi Brouk | Finland | 26,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Dan Smith | United States | 80,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Mikhail Iakovlev | Russian Federation | 32,300 |
| 12 | 5 | Ari Engel | United States | 86,000 |
| 12 | 6 | Nikolay Gryzin | Russian Federation | 24,600 |
| 12 | 7 | Salvatore Bonavena | Italy | 63,200 |
| 12 | 8 | Bahram Chobineh | Islamic Republic of Iran | 20,000 |