Sebastian “Luckbox” Ruthenberg chipleader after day 1 of the EPT Barcelona 2008 (Season 5)

Friday, September 12th, 2008 by skylowlow

Sebastian “Luckbox” Ruthenberg from Germany is the chipleader after day 1a and day 1b of the EPT Barcelona 2008. He starts at day 2 with 105.900 chips followed by Jonas Klausen from Denmark with 101.800 chips and Mikael Lundell from Sweden with 101.000 chips.
Sebastian Ruthenberg won his first bracelet at the Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo event at the WSOP 2008 and is therefore the world champion in this poker variant.

Overall 619 players played at the two starting days. 203 of them will return at day 2, including the PokerStars Pros Chad Brown and Andre Akkari. They are all hoping to win the tournament and take the first prize which is €1.361.000. The runner-up gets at least €792.000.

Here are the top 20 chipcounts after both starting days:

Name	Country	Chipcount
Sebastian Ruthenberg	Germany	105.900
Jonas Klausen	Denmark	101.800
Mikael Lundell	Sweden	101.000
Brice Cournut	France	87.100
Michael Murra	Germany	87.000
Jason Mercier	USA	79.300
Olof Jonatan Stal	Sweden	78.100
Nichlas Saarisilta	Sweden	76.100
Aniol Alcaraz Coca	Spain	74.100
Pedro Pocas	Portugal	73.600
Rasmus Hede Nielsen	Denmark	73.100
Jesper Hougaard	Denmark	72.700
Haward Speer	Germany	72.300
Voitto Rintala	Finland	71.800
Nestor Ygborn	Sweden	71.200
David Shave Kruger	USA	71.100
Mazhar Nawab	Ireland	70.600
Sorel Mizzi	Canada	68.500
Chad Brown	USA	67.100
Dren Ukella	Germany	65.800