Leo Margets Bags on Home Soil on Day 1a of Winamax SISMIX
After an incredible Day 1a of the Winamax SISMIX Main Event where 402 players entered, just 79 players advanced to Day 2 after 20 levels of play at the Gran Casino Costa Brava.
The tournament was so popular that although players were originally allowed one reentry per flight, that was revised to allow for reentry into the Turbo Day 1d flight on Friday only.
Several notable players jumped into the Main Event, including Winamax Team Pros Pierre Calamusa, Adrien Delmas and Leo Margets, along with former champion Jerome Sgorrano, Erwann Pecheux and French rugby player Hugues Briatte.
Of those players, just Margets would advance to Day 2. After announcing the ceremonial shuffle up and deal at the start of play, she registered at the first break and slowly built up her stack over the course of the day to bag 233,000. She previously finished 16th at the 2017 Winamax SISMIX and will be looking for another strong performance at a venue where she won €100,000 in 2010 as part of the Full Tilt Masters Series.
Yves Sanchez Bags the Day 1a Chip Lead
The chip lead is currently held by Yves Sanchez who turned his 50,000 starting stack into 702,000. There is a gap from him back to Ronan Houssein (558,000), Arthur Degois (533,000), Tim Hartmann (530,000), Louis Marette and Alexandre Regnier (both 507,000).
With several well-known players and Team Pros occupied today with the High Roller, which is still ongoing, Thursday, May 23 looks to be another exciting and jam-packed day of poker here at the Gran Casino Costa Brava, with Day 1b getting underway at midday.
Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.
