Three players were all in preflop and the cards were on their backs.
Graham Hawkes:
Josep Vives,
Opponent: .
“Anyone fold a king?” Hawkes asked hopefully.
The board ran out .
The bast had cling on to win and Vives won a big pot while knocking out two players.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
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70,000
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Graham Hawkes
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Busted
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Graham HawkesJosep Vives
Day 1a attracted 182 entries, Day 1b got 246 nd so far Day 1c has totaled 220 entries.
With a Day 1d Turbo later today those numbers are going to keep rising.
To meet the £120,000 guarantee the Opening Event needed to reach 606 and the total so far is 648.
Quite a few players will be considerably richer by the end of the final day tomorrow.
The players are having a 30-minute break.
Approaching the first break of the day there have been 186 players through the doors of the 888Live poker room at Aspers and 11 rebuys so far.
There are still players registering for the tournament at the desk so London’s biggest poker room is in for a busy day but no one will be turned away.
There is a whopping £650,000 total guaranteed prize money to be won over the next 11 Days at Aspers.
The Opening Event currently underway has a £120,000 guarantee.
“The Hurricane” on Sunday has a £5,000 GTE, “The Swordfish” on Monday has a £3,000 GTE while the ever popular Turbo Deepstack has a £8,888 GTE.
The High Rollers come to town on Wednesday, October 11 and the £2,200 buy-in event has a guaranteed prize pool of £50,000.
The Main Event kicks off on Thursday with a hefty £400,000 guarantee.
Then there is the Ladies Event on Sunday which has an amazing $13,000 package to the WSOPE to be won.
There are plenty of satellites running to suit all pocketbooks so don’t miss out.
You can find the full schedule and further information here.