Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2015 Unibet Open Glasgow
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Unibet Open Glasgow
Buy-in
£800
Prize Pool
£176,800
Entries
221
Level
26
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Daniel Chutrov Amasses a Monster Stack
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Most Saturday’s are busy at Celtic Park thanks it being the home to Celtic F.C. The iconic home of the Scottish Premier League champions can hold just shy of 61,000 adoring fans, but today it was a different kind of busy. Today, the air was ringing not with chants and cheers but of chips being riffled and dealers shouting “seat open.” Today was Day 1a of the inaugural Unibet Open Glasgow Main Event.
The €1,000+€100 (£800+£80) buy-in Main Event features two starting flights and the first of those is now written into the history books. A total of 109 hopefuls chose Day 1a to start their quest to become the first Unibet Open Glasgow champion, a quest that ended in vain for all but 33 of them.
One player whose quest is most definitely still on is the young Bulgarian Daniel Chutrov, who turned his 30,000 starting stack into an almost unbelievable tournament-leading stack of 539,500 over the course of nine 60-minute levels.
According to his HendonMob profile, Chutrov only has two live tournament cashes to his name, cashes that total $3,357. You wouldn’t believe this to be true if you had watched him in action today because he played with relentless yet controlled aggression throughout the day. He also ran pure in a number of key spots to go along with him playing well, which is a deadly combination that any poker player relishes.
One example of Chutrov’s run-good was when he had been playing back at Asbjorn Elvevold. After taking a pot away from him on the flop of the previous hand, Chutrov was dealt aces and got Elvevold to commit his stack with top pair. From that point on, Chutrov never looked back on his way to Monday’s Day 2.
Another was waking up with ace-king when his opponent had moved all-in with the dominated ace-jack; Chutrov could do no wrong even if he tried!
There’s a long way to go in this event but it’s highly likely that Chutrov is going to have a third cash to brag about by the time the Unibet Open Glasgow packs up and heads to its next venue.
Day 1b kicks off at 1:00pm on Sunday and should see an even larger field take part in this exciting tournament. The plan is to complete the same nine levels that the Day 1a entrants did with a 15-minute break after every two levels and an hour-long dinner break after the completion of Level 6.
Will anyone catch Chutrov? Is it even possible? Tune into the PokerNews Live Reporting pages on Sunday 7 June to find out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
539,500
304,500
|
304,500 |
End-of-Day 1a Official Chip Counts (full)
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
539,500
304,500
|
304,500 |
|
169,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
|
155,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
|
151,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
|
146,000
146,000
|
146,000 |
|
|
136,600
136,600
|
136,600 |
|
|
118,100
46,100
|
46,100 |
|
115,300
91,300
|
91,300 |
|
|
109,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
|
|
101,700
101,700
|
101,700 |
|
97,200
27,200
|
27,200 |
|
89,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
|
|
83,300
83,300
|
83,300 |
|
79,900
4,900
|
4,900 |
|
||
|
|
76,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
|
|
75,500
75,500
|
75,500 |
|
69,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
|
64,900
64,900
|
64,900 |
|
|
61,100
61,100
|
61,100 |
|
|
57,300
-12,700
|
-12,700 |
|
|
56,300
56,300
|
56,300 |
|
47,100
-69,900
|
-69,900 |
|
46,300
46,300
|
46,300 |
|
|
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
|
42,900
42,900
|
42,900 |
Four More Hands
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The tournament clock has been paused and the dealers instructed to deal four more hands before brining the curtain down on Day 1a proceedings.
Slaikovskiy Slain
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Dmitriy Slaikovskiy is heading home with only a few minutes remaining of Day 1a. We asked his former table mates what happened and he three-bet all-in with 
and was called by the initial raiser who'd opened with 
. A seven on the flop left him drawing extremely thin with an ace on the turn leaving him drawing stone dead.
Thirty-three players have chips in front of them as the day begins winding up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Espensen Eradicated
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Ronnie Espensen's tournament has come to an abrupt end over on Table 2. Espensen pushed his short stack into the middle of the felt while holding 
and was looked up by 
. a king on the flop of the 
board was more than enough to send Dane into the cold Glasgow night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Final Round of Photos
Kielek Crashes Out
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Dariusz Kielek had been nursing a short-stack for a while but now he is out of chips after moving all-in in back-to-back hands.
The first saw the action fold to him in the small blind and he moved all-in for around eight big blinds, a dangerous move when you have the chip leader Daniel Chutrov in the big blind. Chutrov open-folded 
and joked that he "would call next time," and was true to his word because when Kielek raised all-in from the button, Chutrov re-shoved from the small blind and the big blind ducked out of the way.
Kielek: 
Chutrov: 
A final board reading 
and Kielek was gone.
Level: 9
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Final Break of Day 1a
Level 8
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The players are heading for their final break of Day 1a and will return in 15-minutes. When they do, they'll play another 60-minutes before bagging up for the night.
Forty-one players are still in the hunt for the title, how many will make it through to Day 2?