Day 1b: Will the Record Be Broken?
Today is Day 1b of the 2011 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Poker Festival Main Event. It's the second and last starting day for this marvelous event and a massive field is expected of around 500 players. In order to break last year's record, the field will need 569 players today. That might be a stretch, but it also may not be. Only time will tell.
Soem of the players we know will be in the field today are Team PokerStars Pros Angel Guillen, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Joe Hachem, Victor Ramdin, Vanessa Selbst and Vanessa Rousso. They'll be joined by recent World Poker Tour champions Will "The Thrill" Failla and Matt Waxman along with Tristan Wade, Sean Getzwiller, Eddy Sabat and Carlos Mortensen to name a few.
Just like yesterday, the players are slated for eight levels of play, no dinner break and a 15-minute break after every two levels before bagging and tagging for the night. The bar has been set high by Poland's Lukasz Golczyk, who ran his starting stack of 30,000 up to a whopping 211,600 in chips. He amassed over 50,000 more than any other player, but we'll see if someone can catch him today.
Play begins promptly at 12:00 noon here at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel, so be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the coverage.