£880 Main Event Day 1a | 2016 888Live Poker Festival London

10-20-2016 16:31 UTC

Allen Happy to Apply Pressure

MrPaulSeaton

Level 5 : 300/600, 100 ante

Kevin Allen knows a little about sporting discipline, coming from a highly professional family in the area of football/soccer. It's not surprise that one of his greatest skills is temperament, and the Tottenham-supporting poker professional has just scored another positive result at his table.

One of four callers to a raise of 1,400 pre-flop, Allen saw a flop of and after two players checked, used his position and bet 4,800. The other three folded, and Allen has above his starting stack again after getting off to a tougher start than most.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Allen	32,300

10-20-2016 17:26 UTC

Hardy Hits to Bust An Enemy

MrPaulSeaton

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Anthony Hardy, known as The Booky, has doubled after bluffing on the turn to push an opponent off the pot when the board had read but his opponent called with and was ahead against The Booky's ... until a king on the river sent Hardy up to just under 30,000 chips - the starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Hardy	28,900 -11,100	-11,100

10-20-2016 17:28 UTC

Big Names, Big Stacks

MrPaulSeaton

Level 5 : 300/600, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Allen	150,600 118,300	118,300
Kara Scott	134,400 88,600	88,600

Charles Chattha	122,000
Chris Da-Silva	118,000 21,000	21,000
Kam Kamara	116,700 97,800	97,800
Charles Akadiri	115,800
Arron Fletcher	110,300 15,200	15,200
Albert Sapiano	77,200 22,200	22,200
Artan Dedusha	62,200 -46,400	-46,400
Christopher Brammer	40,900

Natalie Hof	33,000 -2,400	-2,400
Tim Timotheu	28,100
Anthony Hardy	26,600 -13,400	-13,400
Ben Winsor	21,100 -7,700	-7,700
Dominik Nitsche	19,300

Michael Harb	15,400
Melanie Weisner	13,700
Michael Mizrachi	8,500

Level: 7

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

10-20-2016 17:55 UTC

Weisner Bust But Re-Enters

MrPaulSeaton

Level 5 : 300/600, 100 ante

Melanie Weisner got her last 9,100 chips into the middle pre-flop with and was called by Andrea Volpi's .

The board of did nothing to help her cause and she was out before the dinner break.
Weisner will, by all accounts, be sitting back down after the break.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrea Volpi	110,000 110,000	110,000
Melanie Weisner	30,000 16,300	16,300

10-20-2016 17:56 UTC

Dinner Break

MrPaulSeaton

Level 5 : 300/600, 100 ante

The remaining players in Day 1a of the Main Event are on their dinner break and will return in an hour to play three more levels. We'll be back to see all the drama as it happens at the same time.

Level: 6

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

10-20-2016 19:24 UTC

Fletcher Takes More from Dedusha

MrPaulSeaton

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Arron Fletcher and Artan Dedusha have clashed a number of times at Natalie Hof's table and the latest hand was no different.

Fletcher three-bet to 9,000 pre-flop from the small blind, and was only called by Dedusha. The flop of was bet for 11,000 from Fletcher and Dedusha called. The turn of saw Fletcher make it 62,000, however, and Dedusha folded. It would have been almost all of his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arron Fletchr	153,900
Artan Dedusha	71,000 8,800	8,800

10-20-2016 19:41 UTC

Del Piero on Form?

MrPaulSeaton

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Enzo Del Piero has been moved to the feature table along with some other prominent names on this Day 1a. Natalie Hof, Arron Fletcher and Artan Dedusha all share the felt with Del Piero, but so far, he is above average and cruising on around 88,000.

The popular pro, who has two high roller results in the last month, will be looking to add a bit more pressure under the lights.