Day 1a Highlights
While we began covering the Main Event today on Day 1b, yesterday featured another exciting day of action.
A total of 168 entrants ponied up the €1,100 buy-in yesterday with 43 players bagging chips. Granny Dominique Moriano ended the day as the chip leader with a huge stack of 363,000.
Also having a good day was Moritz Rolf Bleiker (second - 227,700) and Luka Cencelj (third -203,700). Regardless of how Cencelj finishing the Main Event, he had a successful festival after winning the 888poker LIVE Barcelona €220 Opening Event for €24,650 after agreeing to a heads-up deal.
Last year's Main Event winner Luigi Andrea Shehadeh is also off to an amazing start bagging a sixth-place chip stack of 188,500.
Meanwhile, the only 888poker Ambassador to bag chips yesterday was 2014 WSOP Main Event winner Martin Jacobson with a healthy stack of 147,900.
All of the 888poker Ambassadors in attendance are skipping the Day 1b field with a party planned later tonight. Many, if not all, are expected to play in tomorrow's Day 1c field kicking off at 3 p.m.