James Dempsey raised to 1,600 from the cutoff and Toby Lewis peeled from the small blind.
The flop came and Lewis checked, Dempsey bet 2,700 and Lewis check-raised to 7,000 before Dempsey now clicked it back to 11,300. Lewis now raised once more to 16,000 and then Dempsey made it 24,000.
Lewis pushed all-in for 67,700 and Dempsey called with in a world of trouble behind Lewis' . The on the turn gave Dempsey a chance of a split but the river sent the 140,000 chip pot across to Lewis.
Dempsey described the hand to his friends Paul Foltyn and Team Pokerstars Pro JP Kelly with a little bit of ridiculous glee over his own silliness but also stating that Lewis had tried to 5-bet bluff him earlier.
After hearing Dempsey's description of what happened, Kelly replied to his friend, "You are the worst player in the world."
The chips are being bagged and tagged but it looks as though PokerStars Team Online player Andre Coimbra has snuck into the chip lead at the end of the day. The Portuguese player sits at the top of the table with 157,600 but he is surrounded by many familiar faces as Team Pros Dario Minieri and Arnaud Mattern are also in the leading group.
Minieri's reputation worked well for him today, getting a full-on double up when his aces won out against king-queen on a queen high flop and although he lost with kings to aces late on, he'll remain a credible threat when Monday's Day 2 begins. Mattern had a much rougher ride, dropping to 18,000 early on before successive double ups in barely 10 minutes put him amongst the leaders.
Antonio Esfandiari, making a rare appearance at an EPT had a very solid day finishing just shy of 130,000 while former GUKPT grand final winner Paul 'badpab2' Foltyn built himself an excellent 145,000 stack with which to finish the day on.
Nevertheless, all our remaining players will be returning on monday, joined by the survivors of tomorrow's Day 1b. We'll back tomorrow from 12pm local time (GMT+1), see you then!
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and Lewis checked, Dempsey bet 2,700 and Lewis check-raised to 7,000 before Dempsey now clicked it back to 11,300. Lewis now raised once more to 16,000 and then Dempsey made it 24,000.
in a world of trouble behind Lewis' 
on the turn gave Dempsey a chance of a split but the 
river sent the 140,000 chip pot across to Lewis.
