Whenever there are two starting flights it's almost certain that the second one might be bigger and whilst the primary flight of the UKIPT4 London 2 Main Event attracted 353 runners it was positively blown out of the water today as 736 players coughed up the £770 buy-in to take their seats. For a lot of Day 1B the action was spread between four separate tournament rooms here on the Grand Connaught Rooms, when that occurs you realize you have got a monster for your hands. The entire selection of runners quickly climbed into four figures before settling at 1,089 when late registration slammed shut.
After the powers that be crunched the numbers it was confirmed that the players had created a prize pool of £762,300 so one can be split between the highest 159 runners over the following three days. The winner is slated to receive £133,500, whilst a min-cash is worth £1,250. To peer all of the payout structure click here.
After today's ten levels of play the player best placed to make a run on the big bucks is Eric Theissen. The player from the uk bagged up a tournament leading 293,200, he's got three cashes from the PCA, one at the EPT and another from the Estrellas Poker Tour. Tomorrow he need to be in a position to add the UKIPT to that list. Other players to enjoy a robust day's showing were: Hamid Toghyan, who got most of his 279,000 when he won a 150,000 pot with aces against queens within the dying minutes, Daichi Tominaga (212,400), David Lichentin (194,200) Olof Haglund (191,200) and David Peters (185,700).
There were various star names within the field today, it comes with the territory of such an event. They do not come much finer than fitness buddies ElkY and Eugene Katchalov who were the 2 Team PokerStars Pros to take to the felt today. Whilst ElkY made it in the course of the day, finishing with 73,900, Katchalov would bust in level nine when he ran pocket tens into pocket kings.
The Ukranian was seated on the same table as Team PokerStars SportStars Fatima Moreira de Melo, she fared better than Katchalov did though and can be back for Day 2 with a stack of 65,200 and be hoping to make it two UKIPT Main Event cashes in per week after her 38th place finish within the Isle of Man. Also through to fight another day are Team Online's Vicente Delgado (70,600) and Christian Favale (32,000) but Mickey Petersen should look forward to EPT London for a deep Main Event run.
The Full Tilt UKIPT Tour Ambassadors were out in full force today and we got the entire set of 4 at the same starting day for when they. all had markedly different days too. Ben Jenkins was all the way down to lower than half his starting stack before the top of level two but that boy has patience beyond his years and dilligently worked his long ago as much as 37,500 by plays end. He'll start tomorrow with a below average stack but he's still got over 20 big blinds to work with. Against this Martins Adeniya looked as if it would coast throughout the day comfortably in the midst of the pack throughout and that is the reason where he'll start tomorrow with a stack of 86,900.
Sin Melin had a rollercoaster day, shortstacked one moment, above average the following before busting out with just minutes left within the day, she joined Dermot Blain at the rail, the Irishman having fallen in level eight
There's undoubtedly that there have been a variety of players within the field today for whom a UKIPT is on the bottom in their buy-in range and that's the reason no disrespect to this tour, only a fact. Whilst some like Roberto Romanello (138,800), Ludovic Geilich (105,700) Shannon Shorr (87,800), Pratush Buddiga (55,100) and Chris Brammer (106,000) prospered, others found this friendly little tour a tricky nut to crack. Chris Moorman, James Dempsey, Sorrel Mizzi, Adrian Mateos, Marvin Rettenmaier and David Vamplew were all passed by the day's end. And they're going to be a brand new champion too as Robbie Bull also didn't advance to Day 2.
Whilst they will not be back tomorrow we, and roughly 340 others, will for a busy day's poker where the bubble will burst and the march towards the business end of the tournament will begin in earnest. Join us from noon for moving day, for you can now make amends for all today's action by clicking at the links below. The overnight chip counts and seat draw can be uploaded when available, regulate the widget to the best for that information. For now though goodnight.
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