Jen Mason - 14,000
David Colclough - 16,000
Simon Young - 11,000
Richard Gryko - 1,700. Richard is on the felt after an early clash.
Andrew Black - 13,000
Andreas Hoivold - 11,000
Johnny Lodden - 10,500
Martin Wendt - 12,000
The first break is after level 2 in around 30 minutes.
This is a top Polish player, Marcin Horecki, who recently finalled at the Asian Poker Classic in Goa and finished 30th at the EPT in Copenhagen. He is off to a flyer again judging by this chip tower. He is seated to the immediate left of Roland de Wolfe.
Several Americans have made the trip to Warsaw. In action for the stars and stripes today are:
Rado Boltryk
Jeff Buffenbarger
James Campbell
William Erickson
Sean Galusha
Ryan Hoffmann
David Jordon Bakst
James Kilarjian
Thomas Osmun
Andrew Robl
Craig Wexter
While the weather is good outside, we are holed up in the press room inside the Hyatt Regency, three floors above the casino. Keeping fit running up and down stairs could be the order of the day here.
First thing to confront us was the hotel internet system - it wasn’t working too well! Cue the technical guys……zzzzz
We had a look at the casino reception area a couple of hours before the cards hit the air, Ireland’s Andrew Black rolled up at this moment, telling us that he woke up at 4am deciding on the spur of that moment to play, so he was sorting out a bank transfer to secure his seat.
As a great believer in fate, I threw my 20 Zlotys into the ring for the press room’s Last Longest bet – Andrew Black. For the record, Paul went in-house with Noah Boeken.