End Of Day 1a
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Just at the death, we lost Ludovic Lacay as he called a 12,500 bet on a
flop before shoving the 
turn when it was checked to him. He was fairly speedily called by 
and could only show 
. The 
changed nothing on the river and Lacay was out.We lost many big names today, including Jesper Hougaard, Erick Lindgren, Chad Brown and Barny Boatman. However, home hopes Dario Minieri and Luca Pagano, as well as former winner Arnaud Mattern have all survived into the second day.
At the end of the day, it is looking as though Russian Alexey Rybin is the chip leader having amassed a whopping 213,100 or so. A brief search around the room leads us to believe that no-one else has anything over the 200,000 mark.
That's all from San Remo for tonight. We'll see you at midday tomorrow for Day 1b!