There are many countries and continents represented today in the TonyBet OFC Championship Main Event. Representing Denmark is Claus Carlsen, who is just short of $73,000 in career online poker cashes according to The Hendon Mob.
Carlsen's biggest cash to date came in May 2014 when he took third place in the Danish Championships Main Event for DKr 200,000 ($36,450).
Germany's Tobias Hausen was spotted among the field. He took part in the High Roller yesterday without much success, but is looking to pile on a cash if not a win in today's event.
Hausen is off to a good start as he is one of the few players to already double his 30,000 chip stack as he now has 60,000 chips in front of him.
The German has over $300,000 in tracked tournament cashes according to The Hendon Mob. His biggest cash came this summer during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) when he took eighth place in Event #21: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship for $45,661.
Isabelle Mercier has just been among the early eliminations in the tournament. Known by her fans as "No Mercy", the TonyBet Poker Ambassador is already back in the action with her second bullet and a fresh stack of 30,000 chips.
Mercier, whose OFC strategy articles appear weekly on told PokerNews, shared with us that, "I feel good, and I am ready to go!"
We just caught up with Yuanxi Chen, one of the handful of players to join in on the OFC High Roller event yesterday. We learned the Chen came all the way from Singapore, just to play in the OFC events. Although he can't play for real-money online in his home country, he shared with us that he plays freerolls and absolutely loves the game.
While he shared with us that he came specifically for the TonyBet OFC World Championship events, Chen is thinking about staying for more poker action during the Prague Poker Festival after the OFC World Championship Main Event is over.
Six levels are in the books, and we are ready for our second 15 minute break of the day. Players are up and stretching and when action resumes points will be each worth 800 chips a piece.
We are now at 104 entrants in the Main Event. It seems very likely that we will see last year's record be broken of 135 entrants with over 2 hours left in late registration.
According to the big board, there are 73 players remaining in the field.
