EPT Vienna ELKY 12th Place Chip Leader!!!

After Day one of the European Poker Tour in Vienna, ELKY is going strong with the 12th largest stack in the tournament.

This is significant as there are only 83 players that remain after day one from over 287. Tournament playing and online playing is fundamentally different in that the size of your stack matter a lot because there is no further buy-ins (meaning you can't add chips). While this seems super obvious, the trick is to continually build your stack up during the course of the tournament, but also not go on tilt.

This actually happened to Elky for one of the buy in tournaments he played (500 Euros buy in) on the last day of the Deauville EPT event. He was nearly double the chip leader and the players were down to about 35, and he was confident. So he started used the 1 k chips and in two over invested plays he lost half his stack. In that particular tournament he came in 9th place winning 2000 Euros, which wasn't bad, but had he just held in there until the final table with his huge stack, then he could have won the 40,000 euros.

Well I think he's learned his lesson. hope so anyway(s), he's playing right now and so we'll find out how he is doing, but he is definately improving, so wish him luck if you catch him on msn, especially if he wins and gets to go to Monte Carlo for really big money.

1st Day Chip leaders

1. KHARITONOV Denis 146,875
2. ROGERS Jeffrey David 119,175
3. PURO Mika 115,475
4. SMITH Luke 97,200
5. LANDAUER Lothar 81,600
6. PHAM Xuyen 79,050
7. COOPER Robert 76,425
8. WALSH Jennifer 74,675
9. SCHIFFMANN Josh 71,425
10. TOLNAI Tibor 66,075
11. SANEJSTRA Joachim 64,650
12. GROSPELLIER Bertrand (Elky) 61,650

Tournament Director Thomas Kremser just announced the payouts for the E-WSOP. Out of 297 players, 27 will walk away with cash in their pockets. The final eight who make the TV table will be fighting for these prizes (in Euros):
1) 184,500
2) 101,400
3) 51,800
4) 40,500
5) 34,500
6) 28,800
7) 23,000