EPT 11 Grand Final Main Event - Jose Carlos Garcia leads the field after Day 1

After the completion of both Day 1A and 1B, Jose Carlos Garcia emerged as the chip leader of the EPT 11 €10,600 Main Event, there are still plenty of big names in the room including EPT 6 Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity, 2014 WSOP Main Event runner-up Felix Stephensen, Mustapha Kanit, Ole Schemion, Steve O'Dwyer and more. There are currently 299 players left of the 556 who registered and the plan for the day is to play six 75-minute levels.

The €10,600 buy-in EPT Grand Final Main Event kicked off on May 2 with all of the biggest names of poker. A total of 219 players registered for Day 1A and 113 of these advanced. By the end of the day, it was Jose Carlos Garcia who managed to build the biggest stack increasing his 30,000 starting stack to 182.800.

Day 1B saw 337 players register, and since registration is open until the start of Day 2, the total number could still increase. Several big names, including Daniel Negreanu, Christoph Vogelsang, Igor Kurganov, Phil Ivey and Max Altergott have already taken advantage of this option and joined the field.

Day 2 will start at 12:00 local time, the average stack is 55.785 and the plan is to play six 75-minute levels, you can check out the live stream from the feature table below!

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Top 10 stacks

Jose Carlos Garcia - 182.800 

Joao Simao - 179.100 
Nicolas Chouity - 168.000 
Romain Paon - 161.900 
Roger Hairabedian - 153.800 
Charlie Carrel - 153.000 
Eric Sfez - 148.600 
Samy Salah - 144.500 
Felix Stephensen - 143.000 
Mustapha Kanit - 138.800

Other notables

Ole Schemion - 121.600
Steve O`Dwyer - 109.000
Bryan Paris - 103.500 
Martin Kabrhel - 102.700
Eugene Katchalov - 95.600
David Peters - 90.200
Dimitar Danchev - 89.600
Ludovic Geilich - 84.900
Christophe Benzimra - 81.000
Brian Roberts - 75.900
Artem Litvinov - 75.600
Jason Mercier - 74.900
JC Alvarado - 72.500
Fabrice Soulier - 67.100
Vanessa Selbst - 66.200
Patrick Leonard - 65.900
Johnny Lodden - 65.400
Ivan Demidov - 64.900
Simon Deadman - 63.600
Sergio Aido - 62.200
Artur Koren - 58.900
Andrew Chen - 58.500
Shyam Srinivasan - 57.700
Connor Drinan - 54.000
Viktor Blom - 51.900
Mike McDonald - 49.500
Joao Barbosa - 47.000
Jack Salter - 44.600
Martin Jacobson - 42.000
Adrian Mateos - 35.700
Isaac Haxton - 33.200
Oleksii Kovalchuk - 31.600
Tatiana Barausova - 31.500
Liv Boeree - 30.000
Dominik Nitsche - 28.000
Kevin MacPhee - 27.100
Benny Spindler - 25.900
Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 25.700
Maria Ho - 23.600 
Daniel Carlsson - 23.300
Govert Metaal - 23.100 
Stephen Chidwick - 22.800
Fabian Quoss - 22.200
Gaelle Baumann - 20.900
Dominik Panka - 17.700
Liviu Ignat - 15.900
Jake Cody - 14.700
Fatima Moreira De Melo - 10.800
Martins Adeniya - 10.300
Jason Koon - 7.600