Portuguese player João Costa built a huge chip lead during Day 1A of PokerStars Portugal Poker Series Figueira da Foz. After nine 60- minute levels, Costa bagged 204,700 chips, putting himself as an enormous favourite to win this second event of 1 of the latest PokerStars tours.

That stack is much more impressive when you think about that, one in all 54 starters on Day 1A of this €700+€70 tournament, he began with 15,000 chips. When he returns on Sunday for Day 2, blinds may be 500-1,000 (100 ante), which means that he has slightly greater than 204 big blinds. In total he has greater than 25% of the 810,000 chips in play today, and his closest challenger, Eduardo Ferreira, has 83,700 chips!

Chip leader João Costa

Day 1A saw the demise of 2 Portuguese Team PokerStars Pros. Henrique Pinho lost his last chips in spite of everything of the penultimate level of the day, just a bit bit after Nuno Coelho had pocket kings... twice! First he lost half his stack pre-flop against A-K, then he found himself at the wrong side of a K-K vs. A-A cooler.

Team PokerStars Pro Nuno Coelho

Satursay saw another Team PokerStars Pro in play. João Nunes plays, but after a different heads-up challenge against Paulo Futre, probably the greatest Portuguese footballers ever, whose popularity levels in Portugal are, nowadays, higher than ever.

If you must practise your Portuguese, visit our fellow PokerStars PT Blog, where you will find all details of just today 1A at the Live Coverage. Whilst you do that, take a look at the Portugal Poker Series official website to be informed more about this tour.

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