£1,100 Main Event Day 1de | 2019 888poker LIVE Festival London

£1,100 Main Event

Day 1de Completed

12-01-2019 00:30 UTC

Ponomarev Tops Day 1d; Poulengeris Bags the Most on Day 1e

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The final two starting days of the 2019 888poker LIVE Festival London £1,100 Main Event have wrapped up at the Aspers Casino at Westfield Stratford City and the field size has increased to 506 total entries thanks to the far-biggest flight for the flagship tournament of the festival.

After three previous starting days, 261 entries had set the event on track to meet the £500,000 guarantee and Day 1d turned out to attract 165 unique players. Along with 39 re-entries, an additional 204 were added to the equation and the final turbo heat 1e pushed it up further thanks to 38 unique players and three re-entries.

The five starting days at a glance

Day	Unique Players	Re-Entries	Total Entries	Survivors
1a	52	6	58	13
1b	62	14	76	24
1c	111	16	127	49
1d	165	39	204	79
1e	38	3	41	19
2	?	Total	506	184

Following the trend of the previous flights, Day 1d bagged up slightly more than one-third of the field as 79 hopefuls punched their tickets for Day 2. Nikolay Ponomarev came out on top with 222,500 but Matthew Anderson trailed him by fewer than one big blind with a stack of 221,500. Third in chips is Frenchman Maxime Chilaud (192,000), a single chip ahead of Craig Smith (191,500).

Ponomarev had already tried his luck in previous flights without success and Day 1d turned out to be the charm. In the penultimate level of the night, Ponomarev sent Serkan Ersoy to the rail who flat-called a raise and then four-bet jammed for almost 80 big blinds with pocket sixes. He was called by Ponomarev with pocket eights and neither player hit anything on the board.

Chilaud won the second-biggest pot of the day just before heading into the final break of the night at the end of level nine. In a three-bet pot he flopped top pair with ace-queen and fired three barrels to get hero-called eventually by Richard Kellett with pocket tens. Kellett dropped to half the starting stack but still made it through to Day 2 thanks to a late surge, as he claimed 128,500 to his name.

Top five counts after Day 1d

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Nikolay Ponomarev	Russia	222,500
2	Matthew Anderson	United Kingdom	221,500
3	Maxime Chilaud	France	192,000
4	Craig Smith	United Kingdom	191,500
5	Anthony Andreou	United Kingdom	171,000

Other notables from Day 1d with a big stack include Anthony Andreou (171,000), Victor Ilyukhin Sr (153,000), Adrian Constantin (147,500), Nicholas Lee (106,000), Christopher Yong (101,000), Sang Leung (99,000), Vamshi Vandanapu (87,500) and William Kassouf (76,500) to name just a few.

The long list of casualties, unfortunately, included the 888poker ambassadors Kara Scott and Ana Marquez, the former came up short on the live stream table. Furthermore, James Mitchell, Kelly Saxby, Alexios Zervos, Sebastian Gohr, Natalia Breviglieri, Javier Zarco, Ryan Mandara, Kevin Allen and Brandon Shiels were all eliminated.

Local legend Albert Sapiano was the center of chip changes throughout the day as he took several attempts in order to run up a stack. His wild roller-coaster ride brought massive swings in quick succession and he would not bag up chips in either Day 1d and 1e respectively.

With regards to the final turbo heat, a moderate field of 41 total entries was cut down to 19 survivors in 11 levels of 20 minutes each. Antonis "Tony" Poulengeris more than quadrupled his starting stack to claim the honors of Day 1a chip leader with a stack of 124,0000. Neophytos Neophytou (106,000), former football striker Steve Watts (68,500), Brandon Sheils (59,500) and Carl Shaw (37,500) used their last chance.

Top five counts after Day 1e

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Antonis Poulengeris	United Kingdom	124,000
2	Jose Planells	Spain	116,500
3	Neophytos Neophytou	United Kingdom	106,000
4	Stephen Buxton	United Kingdom	96,500
5	Paul Grummitt	United Kingdom	94,000

The field size is not set yet as the late registration and re-entry period remains open until the cards go back in the air for Day 2 as of 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, December 1st, 2019. The money bubble will be reached and the field is expected to get whittled down to the final three tables or fewer as the level duration increases to 60 minutes each for the remainder of the tournament.

A live stream with hole cards displayed on a 30-minute security delay will be available on the 888poker YouTube channel after the first break of the day and the PokerNews team will provide all the action from the tables until the 888poker LIVE circuit has crowned a new champion.

Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Jaime Rueda Sampedro	Spain	40,000	20
1	2	Samuel Kerr	United Kingdom	137,500	69
1	3	Paul Grummitt	United Kingdom	94,000	47
1	4	Stefanita-Catalin Buzatu	Romania	65,500	33
1	5	Jacek Skiscim	Poland	125,000	63
1	6	Jamie Munro	United Kingdom	56,500	28
1	7	Kenny Lim	United Kingdom	55,000	28
1	8	Jurij Kolesnikov	Lithuania	33,000	17
1	9	Lukas Gloor	Switzerland	221,500	111

2	1	Borja Picon	Spain	38,000	19
2	2	Boris Velev	Bulgaria	31,500	16
2	3	Jonathan Lemon	United Kingdom	68,000	34
2	4	Reza Movasat	United Kingdom	26,000	13
2	5	Carl-Fredrik Tingvall	Sweden	37,500	19
2	6	Sam Acheampong	United Kingdom	46,500	23
2	7	Getnet Kassa	United Kingdom	52,500	26
2	8	Ion Albu	Romania	79,000	40
2	9	James Williams	United Kingdom	64,500	32

3	1	Isabelle Tsaplina	France	40,500	20
3	2	Catalin Dumitrascu	Romania	97,500	49
3	3	Rahnaz Rehman	United Kingdom	58,000	29
3	4	Tom Winstone	United Kingdom	22,500	11
3	5	Riyazur Samad	United Kingdom	37,000	19
3	6	Joseph Bodner	United Kingdom	85,000	43
3	7	Freddy Moutousamy	United Kingdom	37,000	19
3	8	[Removed:321] Usmani	United Kingdom	33,000	17
3	9	Lee Mulligan	United Kingdom	60,500	30

4	1	Simon Abou Zaki	United Kingdom	71,000	36
4	2	Atanas Pavlov	Bulgaria	25,000	13
4	3	Carlos Gutierrez	Spain	83,000	42
4	4	Neil van der Merwe	United Kingdom	92,000	46
4	5	Dino Brivati	United Kingdom	137,000	69
4	6	Sang Leung	United Kingdom	99,000	50
4	7	Michael Panteli	United Kingdom	102,500	51
4	8	Nikolay Ponomarev	Russia	222,500	111
4	9	Christophe Panetti	France	53,000	27

5	1	Tore Pedersen	Norway	13,500	7
5	2	Joseph Parsons	United Kingdom	96,500	48
5	3	Ionut Dragomir	Romania	52,000	26
5	4	Bojia Zhang	United Kingdom	122,500	61
5	5	Manuel Bueno	Spain	103,500	52
5	6	Andy Achillea	United Kingdom	47,000	24
5	7	Raafat Sharawi	United Kingdom	123,500	62
5	8	Eric Le Goff	France	24,500	12
5	9	Damian Bell	United Kingdom	33,500	17

6	1	Jose Echevarne Gomez	Spain	91,500	46
6	2	Gary Bertram	United Kingdom	43,000	22
6	3	Alexander Donev	France	105,000	53
6	4	Vikrum Mehta	United Kingdom	160,000	80
6	5	Alexandru Tornea	Romania	70,000	35
6	6	Edward Overall	United Kingdom	166,000	83
6	7	Artan Dedusha	United Kingdom	72,000	36
6	8	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	60,000	30

6	9	Michele Denuzzo	Italy	24,500	12
7	1	Malcolm Mckinlay	United Kingdom	36,500	18
7	2	Guillaume Chiron	France	89,500	45
7	3	Mohammed Zahour	United Kingdom	84,500	42
7	4	Nicholas Lee	Australia	106,000	53
7	5	Tobias Revenas	Sweden	104,000	52
7	6	Richard Kellett	United Kingdom	128,500	64
7	7	Renee Xle	China	53,000	27
7	8	Katie Lindsay	United States	39,000	20
7	9	Mohammed Ifzail	United Kingdom	86,000	43

8	1	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	21,500	11
8	2	Craig Smith	United Kingdom	191,500	96
8	3	Thomas Berends	United Kingdom	118,000	59
8	4	Arvin Vahdat	Iran	35,500	18
8	5	Francisco Jesus Campos	Spain	123,500	62
8	6	Tsvetelin Goranov	United Kingdom	14,000	7
8	7	Tony Poulengeris	United Kingdom	124,000	62
8	8	Chris Moorman	United Kingdom	82,000	41
8	9	James Millman	United Kingdom	41,000	21

9	1	Bobby James	United Kingdom	235,000	118
9	2	Sanjay Patel	United Kingdom	72,000	36
9	3	Kasim Oz	United Kingdom	59,000	30
9	4	Mark Wong	United Kingdom	93,500	47
9	5	Christopher Rowlands	United Kingdom	70,000	35
9	6	James Walsh	United Kingdom	53,500	27
9	7	Tamer Kamel	United Kingdom	59,000	30
9	8	Stephen Miles	United Kingdom	48,500	24

10	1	Josep Vives	Spain	53,500	27
10	2	Daniel Habib	United Kingdom	101,500	51
10	3	William Miskelly	United Kingdom	160,000	80
10	4	Abdullah Atshanti	United Kingdom	39,500	20
10	5	Richard Watts	United Kingdom	82,500	41
10	6	Kfir Ivgi	United Kingdom	419,000	210
10	7	Alfie Adam	United Kingdom	144,000	72
10	8	Stephen Smith	United Kingdom	29,500	15

11	1	Sinead Priestley	United Kingdom	83,500	42
11	2	Kim Johansson	Sweden	82,500	41
11	3	Andrew Connell	United Kingdom	72,500	36
11	4	Juan Bautista	Spain	52,000	26
11	5	Anthony Andreou	United Kingdom	171,000	86
11	6	Catherine Hanna	United Kingdom	40,000	20
11	7	Shaun Decesare	United Kingdom	31,000	16
11	8	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	77,500	39

12	1	Neophytos Neophytou	United Kingdom	106,000	53
12	2	Vivian Saliba	Brazil	78,000	39
12	3	Egidijus Alsauskas	United Kingdom	107,500	54
12	4	Jimmy Kebe	France	37,000	19
12	5	Colin Macandrew	United Kingdom	54,500	27
12	6	Alexander Schechter	United Kingdom	179,500	90
12	7	Alexander Zeligman	United Kingdom	80,000	40
12	8	Maxime Chilaud	France	192,000	96

13	1	Daniel Rudd	United Kingdom	52,500	26
13	2	Fraser Macintyre	United Kingdom	57,500	29
13	3	Mauro Suriano	United Kingdom	42,500	21
13	4	Savvas Mitsikouridis	Greece	122,500	61
13	5	Sofia Lovgren	Sweden	41,000	21
13	6	Justin Tsui	United Kingdom	85,500	43
13	7	Matti Kinnunen	Finland	60,500	30
13	8	Scott Berko	United Kingdom	35,000	18

14	1	Charles Akadiri	United Kingdom	30,000	15
14	2	Lee Whiddett	United Kingdom	131,500	66
14	3	Victor Ilyukhin Sr	Russia	153,000	77
14	4	Giulio Mascolo	Italy	111,000	56
14	5	Nguyen Le	United Kingdom	142,000	71
14	6	Christopher Yong	United Kingdom	101,000	51
14	7	Leon Louis	United Kingdom	92,500	46
14	8	Alexandru-Bogdan Bouru	Romania	58,000	29

15	1	George Achillea	United Kingdom	114,500	57
15	2	Victor Hairapetyan	United Kingdom	26,500	13
15	3	Iaron Lightbourne	United Kingdom	256,000	128
15	4	Brandon Sheils	United Kingdom	59,500	30
15	5	Vamshi Vandanapu	United Kingdom	87,500	44
15	6	Christos Xanthopoulos	Greece	139,500	70
15	7	Akshay Reddy	United Kingdom	123,000	62
15	8	Kanan Farzaliyev	United Kingdom	20,500	10

16	1	Gladys Long	United Kingdom	29,500	15
16	2	Jonathan Schuman	United Kingdom	80,500	40
16	3	Enzo Del Piero	United Kingdom	80,000	40
16	4	Ronan Nally	Ireland	77,500	39
16	5	Chris Da-Silva	United Kingdom	150,000	75
16	6	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	48,000	24
16	7	Gary Miller	United Kingdom	231,500	116
16	8	Manh The Nguyen	Vietnam	54,500	27

17	1	Tan Le	United Kingdom	25,000	13
17	2	Jose Planells	Spain	116,500	58
17	3	Nuno Duarte	Brazil	80,000	40
17	4	Bhavin Khatri	United Kingdom	53,000	27
17	5	Charlie Combes	United Kingdom	51,500	26
17	6	Abhekesh Basdeo	Trinidad and Tobago	60,500	30
17	7	Stephen Buxton	United Kingdom	96,500	48
17	8	Duc Nguyen	Vietnam	74,000	37

18	1	Neil Mcculloch	United Kingdom	115,500	58
18	2	Masoud Etemadiherisi	United Kingdom	37,000	19
18	3	Valdir Cordeiro dos Santos	Brazil	90,500	45
18	4	Firat Basbaydar	United Kingdom	46,000	23
18	5	Ben Morrison	United Kingdom	125,500	63
18	6	Justin Scicluna	Malta	259,000	130
18	7	Matthew Anderson	United Kingdom	221,500	111
18	8	Irena Macesovic	Lithuania	85,500	43

19	1	William Kassouf	United Kingdom	76,500	38
19	2	Francois Pirault	France	54,000	27
19	3	Max Deveson	United Kingdom	100,000	50
19	4	Sachin Joshi	United Kingdom	93,500	47
19	5	Georges Georgiou	United Kingdom	104,000	52
19	6	Ramlal Basdeo	Trinidad and Tobago	177,500	89
19	7	Carl Shaw	United Kingdom	37,500	19
19	8	Timothee Zogo	United Kingdom	46,000	23

20	1	Michael Isiguzo	United Kingdom	30,500	15
20	2	Teresa Purt	Spain	25,000	13
20	3	Vincent Meli	France	76,500	38
20	4	Jean Matthieu Choy	United Kingdom	49,500	25
20	5	Man Luk	United Kingdom	86,000	43
20	6	Jiaze Li	United Kingdom	71,000	36
20	7	Daria Antonova	Russia	139,000	70
20	8	Ioannis Kateinas	Greece	42,000	21

21	1	Terry Jordon	United Kingdom	200,000	100
21	2	Rene Lazaro	Hungary	22,000	11
21	3	Steve Watts	United Kingdom	68,500	34
21	4	Aleksandrs Golubevs	United Kingdom	70,000	35
21	5	Adrian Constantin	Romania	147,500	74
21	6	George Demetriou	United Kingdom	31,500	16
21	7	Daria Feshchenko	Russia	13,500	7
21	8	Conor O'Driscoll	United Kingdom	39,500	20

22	1	Xuan Nguyen	United Kingdom	47,000	24
22	2	Endrit Geci	United Kingdom	39,500	20
22	3	Kully Sidhu	United Kingdom	32,000	16
22	4	Alexandru Vlaica	United Kingdom	22,000	11
22	5	Tony Vu	United Kingdom	60,000	30
22	6	Paul Linton	United Kingdom	55,500	28
22	7	Flaviano Cammisuli	Italy	54,000	27
22	8	Usman Ulhaq	United Kingdom	26,500	13

Tags: 888poker live Adrian Constantin Albert Sapiano Alexios Zervos Ana Marquez Anthony Andreou Brandon Sheils

11-30-2019 23:35 UTC

End-of-Day 1e Chip Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

There were a total of 38 unique players and three re-entries, and 19 players bagged and tagged in the turbo heat 1e.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonis Poulengeris	124,000	124,000
Jose Planells	116,500	116,500
Neophytos Neophytou	106,000	106,000
Stephen Buxton	96,500	96,500
Paul Grummitt	94,000	94,000
Mohammed Ifzail	86,000	86,000
Christopher Rowlands	70,000	70,000
Steve Watts	68,500	68,500
Jonathan Lemon	68,000	68,000
Brandon Sheils	59,500	59,500
Alexandru-Bogdan Bouru	58,000	58,000
Christophe Panetti	53,000	53,000
Ioannis Kateinas	42,000	42,000
Endrit Geci	39,500	39,500
Carl Shaw	37,500	37,500
Masoud Etemadiherisi	37,000	37,000
Shaun Decesare	31,000	31,000
Charles Akadiri	30,000	30,000
Tore Pedersen	13,500	13,500
Albert Sapiano	Busted
Sebastian Gohr	Busted
Sami Bedhouafi	Busted
Roberto Forestiero	Busted
Paulus Vanbragt	Busted
Matteo Diana	Busted

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11-30-2019 23:32 UTC

MARTIN JACOBSON ANSWERS YOUR GOOD (AND BAD) QUESTIONS

TiffanyMichelle

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Do you think 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Martin Jacobson still works on his game? What about if you met him face-to-face at the poker tables, would he take all your money? We gave our social media audience the chance to ask the WSOP Champ ANYTHING and here's what you (and he) had to say!

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11-30-2019 23:20 UTC

End-of-Day 1d Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolay Ponomarev	222,500	7,500
Matthew Anderson (UK)	221,500	221,500
Maxime Chilaud	192,000	17,000
Craig Smith	191,500	169,500
Anthony Andreou	171,000	51,000
Edward Overall	166,000	6,000
Victor Ilyukhin Sr	153,000	3,000
Adrian Constantin	147,500	27,500
Nguyen Le	142,000	142,000
Daria Antonova	139,000	39,000
Lee Whiddett	131,500	11,500
Richard Kellett	128,500	-21,500
Jacek Skiscim	125,000	-5,000
Raafat Sharawi	123,500	123,500
Savvas Mitsikouridis	122,500	122,500
George Achillea	114,500	-5,500
Giulio Mascolo	111,000	11,000
Nicholas Lee	106,000	-4,000
Alexander Donev	105,000	105,000
Georges Georgiou	104,000	-11,000
Daniel Habib	101,500	-28,500
Christopher Yong	101,000	-64,000
Sang Leung	99,000	-1,000
Catalin Dumitrascu	97,500	67,500
Jose Echevarne Gomez	91,500	91,500

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11-30-2019 22:30 UTC

Day 1d Completed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Fewer than 80 players have bagged up for the night on Day 1d while the turbo heat 1e is nearing the final half an hour of play with 27 players out of 41 entries remaining. The full chip counts for the final two flights and a recap of today's action are to follow.

11-30-2019 22:27 UTC

Demetriou Doubles; Bertram Does Too

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

George Demetriou was all in for the last few big blinds with and picked up a call by an opponent with . Demetriou spiked a seven-high straight on the turn and climbed back above the starting hand.

One table over, Sang Leung raised to 3,500 from under the gun and Tamer Kamel called on the button. Gary Bertram jammed the big blind and Leung reshoved, Kamel folded.

Gary Bertram:
Sang Leung:

The board improved Bertram to queens and sixes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sang Leung	100,000	-20,000
Tamer Kamel	60,000	15,000
Gary Bertram	43,000	43,000
George Demetriou	31,500	1,500

Tags: Gary Bertram George Demetriou Sang Leung Tamer Kamel

11-30-2019 22:20 UTC

Saxby Busts; Last Two Hands

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Kelly Saxby got her short stack in with pocket fours and her opponent called with jacks. A four on the flop gave a reason for hope but running queens delivered a set on the board and the jacks had the superior full house.

Right after, the clocks were stopped and the final two hands of the night were announced.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Saxby	Busted

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11-30-2019 22:15 UTC

Ilyukhin Doubles Through Vahdat

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

With 32,000 in the middle and the flop showing , Victor Ilyukhin Senior jammed for 62,100 and Arvin Vahdat called from one seat over for most of his chips.