One of the biggest stars in the game of poker, and formerly Starcraft, Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier, has just entered the tournament. The Team PokerStars Pro, easily recognizable because of his pink colored spiky hair and blingy sunglasses, sat down at the table and he was immediately recognized.
The player in Seat 1 asked where the Frenchman currently lives, and he said, "London, but I spend most of my time on the road."
"So are you at my table or am I at yours?" the friendly gentleman joked.
Elky smiled and replied, "Well, you were here first so I guess I'm at your table."
Grospellier has a stunning $10.8 million in live tournament earnings including a PCA Main Event victory for $2,000,000 and a WPT Festa a Lago victory for $1.4 million. On top of that Elky also has a World Series of Poker bracelet win in the 2011 $10,000 Seven Card Stud event making him one of the select few with a Triple Crown under his belt.
The number 19 on the all-time money list is without a doubt the biggest star in today's field and everyone in the room is buzzing with excitement to follow the Frenchman on his way to perhaps another amazing run.
The cards are in the air for Day 1b. The tournament staff is hoping for a field of at least 150 players today to tie the record for this event of 268 entrants. With yesterday’s field of 118, the tournament is on track for at least surpassing last year’s field of 222 players. Keep it here for all the action as it happens.
It’s Day 1b here at the 2014 PokerStars.net APPT Seoul. Yesterday, the Paradise Casino Walkerhill welcomed 118 players and after losing 73 of them, the most common question of the day was around the subject of rebuys. Unfortunately for those players, there are no rebuys and that means only 45 players will be coming back Day 2, scheduled to get underway tomorrow.
Masato Yokosawa ended yesterday as our day 1a chipleader, bagging 146,800 chips. Other notable survivors moving on to day 2 are Pokerstars Team Online Naoya Kihara (39,200), Sam Razavi (37,300) and last year’s champion Aaron Lim (23,900).
Our coverage is sure to feature Team Pokerstars Pros Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Raymond Wu, as we expect to see them in the field today. We will be bringing you all of the action when play resumes at noon local time. Make sure and keep your browser open to PokerNews.com for updates throughout the day.
While you’re waiting for the action to get started, take a tour of Seoul with our own Laura Cornelius. We will see you back here soon.
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