£220 Opening Event
Day 1c Completed
2016 888Live Poker Festival London
£220 Opening Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 888Live Poker Festival London
Buy-in
£220
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Skipper Leads the Way on Day 1c
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
After 13 levels of Day 1 action, 249 entries on the day and 700 in total across the three Day 1 flights, Paul Skipper took the most chips from an action-packed Day 1c when he bagged up 438,500 at the end of play. He had some strong company in the chasing pack, with Reza Fazeli (400,000), Charles Akadiri (312,000) and Steve Watts (255,000) all totting up great numbers ahead of what will be a terrific final day's play on Day 2.
Just 43 players survived Day 1c, meaning 108 players in total made it through, and among the ones unlucky to miss the boat on Day 1c were 888Poker Pro Chris Moorman, Paul Romain and Sin Menis Melin.
Others were more fortunate, and were able to evade elimination. Skipper looked comfortable throughout, and he wasn't the only one. Andy Wool made a standard raise pre-flop with anything but a standard hand in 
and got two callers to see a flop of 
.After betting 12,000 into the 16,000 pot, Wool re-raised an opponent with 
all-in and scooped a huge pot, eventually ending up with 242,000 chips.
Reza Fazeli found the ideal moment to double up when he found pocket rockets and his aces held against Svetlin Ivano's eights. That put Fazeli up to 125,000 at the time, but he had almost trebled that by the time the last few hands were announced by the tournament director.
Fazeli knows how to play a big stack and will be a massive danger come tomorrow's final showdown, but no-one overtook the top three chip-stacks, which are Arron Fletcher (535,000), Graham Hawkes (515,000) and former Irish Open winner James Mitchell (512,000).
Play resumes at 1pm on Sunday, where someone will win the biggest chunk of a whopping £138,600 prize-pool. this is just the opening event of the 888Poker London Live Festival, and we expect huge numbers for the Main Event and High Roller tournaments next week.
End of Day 1c Chip Counts (full)
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
438,500 | |
|
400,000 | 275,300 |
|
312,000 | |
|
255,000 | 177,200 |
|
|
242,000 | |
|
|
215,000 | |
|
|
202,500 | |
|
201,000 | |
|
|
192,500 | 67,500 |
|
184,500 | |
|
|
180,500 | |
|
|
178,000 | |
|
|
165,500 | |
|
|
155,000 | |
|
|
155,000 | |
|
|
145,000 | |
|
143,000 | |
|
|
138,500 | 82,500 |
|
|
135,000 | |
|
129,000 | |
|
126,000 | 78,400 |
|
|
126,000 | 400 |
|
|
118,000 | |
|
114,000 | 85,250 |
|
114,000 | 76,000 |
Wool Into Day 2
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
First player to let the Twitterverse know of his progress to Day 2 is Andy 'dawhiteninja' Wool, who has 242,000 in the bag.
Final Fifty
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
Only fifty player remain in the hunt for a Day 2 seat, with Peter Skipper looking like the chip leader in the room on 420,000.
Andy Wool has 230,000 and may be nearest challenger, with a whole bunch of players having between 100,000 and 200,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
420,000 | 420,000 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Prince Rockets Up Chip Counts
Level 12
: 1,600/3,200, 400 ante
Joe Prince called all-in for his stack of 61,900 after Pepyn van Leeuwen had moved all-in for 79,000 pre-flop. Despite Prince "trying to induce', the sorely-tempted player in the small blind eventually let it go.
Prince: 
van Leeuwen: 
Van Leeuwen needed extreme help, but he got the opposite on a board of 
and is very short. Prince is feeling regal.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
125,000 | |
|
|
17,000 |
Wool Making Hay
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Andy Wool raised pre-flop with and got two callers to see a flop of .After betting 12,000 into the 16,000 pot, Wool saw his opponent raise so he moved all-in on him, and got a quick call.
"He had and was understandably shocked to see my hand." Wool told us in the aftermath of the hand. I held and I'm up to 250,000 chips."
That puts Wool near the top of the counts, but with just under an hour to go, no-one is close to Arron Fletcher's overall lead from Day 1a of 535,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 145,500 |
Mozaffari-Torshizi Makes a Miracle
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Gholamreza Mozaffari-Torshizi was all-in for his final 33,000 chips and in need of massive help pre-flop with against Peter Saunders for his tournament life.
The flop of 
gave Mozaffari-Torshizi hope, and on the turn, he hits trips to move ahead. The 
river ended the hand, and Saunders was left ruing an unfortunate missed opportunity to go above 120,000 chips. Instead, Saunders must do it all again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,600/3,200
Ante: 400