Day 1 Sint Maarten Poker Open

Edit 07h30: END OF DAY 1
After 8 hours of tournament, only 36 players will come back tomorrow to play the day 2 of the Sint Maarten Poker Open.

We will come back tomorrow at 9:00PM (European time) for the live coverage of the day 2.

Edit 07h03: PRIZEPOOL

1. 55,000€
2. 27,500€
3. 21,000€
4. 16,000€
5. 13,000€
6. 9,700€
7. 8,000€
8. 6,400€
9. 4,900€

Edit 06h35: STEVEN VAN ZADELHOFF OUT
Steven van Zadelhoff has just been eliminated from the Sint Maarten Poker Open. He decided to shove his 9BB in late position with AT and he will be called by KK. No miracle for Steven who's eliminated at the end of this day 1.

Edit 06h30: LEVEL 8
Les 45 remaining players are back in the tournament area after 15 minutes break.

The blinds are now 400/800.

Edit 04h26: BREAK
The 61 remaining players have now 15 minutes break.

Here you have some chipcounts:
- Fabien Perrot: 11k
- Steven van Zadelhoff: 8k
- Antoine Hecquard: 4,2k
- Pierre Legrand: 15k
- Patrick Vick: 3,5k
- Mylène Mathivet: 9k
- Pacome Chavignon: 46k
- Romain Destouches: 24k
- Nick Berns: 40k

Blind level: 200/400 & 50 ante.

Edit 03h04: LEVEL 5
The blinds have just increased at 150/300 with 25 ante.

Edit 02h24: LEVEL 4
The 70 remaining players are back in the tournament area, to play the level 4 with 150/300 blinds.

Edit 00h30: DINNER BREAK
The players have now a 90 minutes dinner break.

Edit 23h34: CHIPCOUNTS
Here you have the chipcounts of the remaining players after the 2 first levels of the day.

- Fabrice Soulier: 5k
- Fabien Perrot: 14k
- Steven van Zadelhoff: 9k
- Antoine Hecquard: 4k
- Pierre Legrand: 16k
- Jeremy Fumey: 13k
- Patrick Vick: 15k
- Christophe Leibovitz: 15k
- Richard de Vries: 30k
- Nick Berns: 30k
- Jack Salter: 14k
- Louis Salter: 30k
- Julian Kabitzke: 21k
- André Klebanov: 13k
- Bernhard Mossner: 30k

Edit 22h17:After one hour, we have now 89 players.

Amongst these players, we can notice the participation of the Team Pro Fabrice Soulier and Steven van Zadelhoff. We can also notice the participation of Fabien Perrot, former Live The Dream Team player.

The blinds increased at 75/150 (15k starting stack)

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Welcome everybody to the live coverage of the Day 1 of the Sint Maarten Poker Open.

The tournament director, Thomas Kremser, just announced the shuffle up and deal.

For the moment, 80 players started the tournament, but there's 3 hours of late registration.

Amongst them, 29 Everest Poker, Betclic and Expekt qualified players have won their 6,500$ package.

Stay tuned and we will keep you updated.