Benny Spindler may not be the most well known name in poker, but he’s making some big time moves that will draw quite a bit of attention at the European Poker Tour’s London Event. After Day 1, Spindler was the second largest chip stack with 160,800 chips. After Day 2, Spindler ended with 469,800 chips, and is sitting at the top of the leaderboard heading into Day 3.
Spindler first made some noise on the live poker tournament scene back in 2009, when he pulled in a third place finish at the European Poker Tour PokerStars’ Caribbean Adventure, and took home an impressive payday of $1.1 million. His strong play in 2009 continued on since then, as he has had some excellent finishes such as his $44k payday last year at this EPT London Event. He has also made three final tables this year, cashing for $48k at the EPT Berlin, finishing second at the EPT Grand Final High Roller Event for a nice $469k payout, and taking down the $10k Single Reload event at the EPT Talinn for $71k. All in all, Spindler has been able to top the $2 million mark in terms of his live tournament earnings in his career.
Day 2 saw some big name eliminations, as well as some big names who will move on; and there is a total of 160 players who will kick off Day 3. The top 104 players will make it into the cash for the event, and the players who are able to make it into the final six of the event will bring home a six-figure payday.
Some of the names who have made it through to Day 3 include Doyle Brunson, John Gale, Humberto Brenes, Jake Cody, Brian Hastings, Jason Mercier, Sorel Mizzi, Andrew Feldman, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Toddy Terry, Freedy Deeb, and James Akenhead.
A few of the names who were unable to make it through Day 2 were players like Joe Cada, Ivan Demidov, Joe Hachem, Vicky Coren, Barry Greenstein, and Vanessa Rousso.
Day 3 has been ongoing throughout today (Monday) and will have the final players who make the cash by the end of the day today. The final table is already scheduled to kick off on Thursday the 6th and will be a televised event.