Our current chip leader appears to be PokerStars online qualifier Rafael Comas, who benefitted earlier from being gifted a lot of Chris Moneymaker's chips. He's sitting on close to 50,000 at the moment.
Italian star Luca Pagano just went out with versus , all in preflop.
We are playing to the end of Level 8 today.
Registration is actually still open for Day 1B, which is likely to have a bigger field of over 200 players. So the total prize pool for the event is likely to be around two million British pounds, which equates to over four million dollars.