It's a case of two down with two to go, with the last of the starting flights in the 2018 partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships £1,100 Main Event getting underway later today. By the time Day 1c, which kicks off at 12 pm, and Day 1d, which gets underway at 5 pm, conclude, we will have a confirmed Day 2 field.
Plenty of players have already confirmed their spots in Day 2, including Day 1a chip leader Adam Neal and Day 1b chip leader Ludovic Geilich. partypoker Ambassador Marcel Luske and UK Poker Championships £5,300 Super High Roller winner Steven Morris also advanced from Day 1a, and will have the luxury of watching from the sidelines to see who else joins them.
Just like yesterday, players will have 12 levels of 40-minutes to grow their 100,000 stack to see if they can rival the seven-figure stack of Day 1b chip leader Geilich, who is the overall chip leader at this stage.
Today's Structure
Small Blind
Big Blind
Button Ante
1
500
1,000
500
2
500
1,000
1,000
3
600
1,200
1,200
4
700
1,400
1,400
5
800
1,600
1,600
6
1,000
2,000
2,000
7
1,000
2,500
2,500
8
1,500
3,000
3,000
9
1,500
3,500
3,500
10
2,000
4,000
4,000
11
2,500
5,000
5,000
12
3,000
6,000
6,000
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action as the partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships £1,100 Main Event continues.
Tom Middleton has a healthy stack well over 300,000 and according to our colleagues over at MypartypokerLIVE, he got most of his chips when, on a flop Middleton ended up all in with against the of an opponent.
The river was the and that helped Middleton to becoming one of the bigger stacks in the room here on Day 1c of the partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships £1,100 Main Event.
In April 2017, Argentinian Maria Lampropoulos outlasted a field of 1,204 players to win a cool £1,000,000 here at Dusk Till Dawn casino in Nottingham in the Main Event of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK.
Since then she has added the 2018 PCA title to her illustrious poker resume, and most recently cashed the partypoker MILLIONS Germany Main Event. Lampropoulos is now here in Nottingham looking to potentially repeat the success from ten months ago.
A player in middle position opened and Super High Roller runner-up Nishid Hindocha called on the button before fellow Super High Roller final tablist Nicholas Todd three-bet from the small blind. Hindocha was the only caller and they went heads-up to a flop of .
Todd continued for 20,000 and Hindocha called. The turn was the and Todd check-called a small bet of 11,500 from Hindocha.
Todd checked the river and Hindocha checked behind. Todd showed for a rivered full house and that was good enough to take down the pot.
It was a jam-packed day of action at Dusk Till Dawn Casino in Nottingham as a total of 389 players came together for Day 1c of the partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships £1,100 Main Event, eclipsing the total for both of yesterday's flights.
After 12 levels there was no runaway chip leader among the remaining 98 like in the previous flights, with several players clustered around and just over the 800,000 mark.
However, there had to be one overall chip leader and that fell to Andrew Laurie who bagged 891,000, narrowling pipping David Clarkson who bagged 887,000. Seated next to him was Robert Buky (773,000), with other big stacks including Martin Olali (807,000), Jamie McCormack (796,000) and Matthew Eardley (720,200).
Not far behind was partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships £5,300 Super High Roller final tablist Chris Sly with 676,500. Other notables making it through to Day 2 include Chris Brammer (622,000), Paul & Ben Jackson (431,500 & 225,000 respectively), Guy Taylor (192,500), Nicholas Todd (146,500) and Paul Leckey (139,000).
Day 1c recap
By the time the first level of the day was barely halfway done, there were already more players than in either of yesterday's flights. It was a sign of things to come, with several big names either entering or trying another time to make it through to Day 2 and lock up a share of the £1,000,000 GTD prize pool.
The likes of Christian Thiry, Martyn Frey, Tom Middleton, Andrew Garland and Guy Taylor were back for more, with Nicolas Le Floch, Kelly Saxby, Tobias Mathaess, and partypoker Ladies Ambassador Louise Butler joining for the first time.
Just like yesterday, there was early action. Gary Spinks got in Kings against the Aces of Tyler Goatcher on the very first hand, and was eliminated. Tom Middleton's stack was also booming after eliminating a player, but after faltering both Goatcher and Middleton were sent to the rail.
They were joined by Thiry, Saxby, Sander van Wesemael and Ben Winsor on the rail. 2017 MILLIONS UK winner Maria Lampropoulos made a visit, but was eliminated before she could make more than a fleeting impression on this particular Main Event.
As is customary, the big stacks did begin to emerge, but there were no huge confrontations to "create" a chip leader such was the case with Adam Neal on the end of Day 1a.
In the end, it was Laurie who saw off competition from a cluster of players to grab the outright chip lead with 891,000. He will still have some ground to make up on others on Day 2, but from the 98 players advancing from Day 1c, he is best placed.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of the partypoker LIVE UK Poker Championships with Day 1d ongoing, and Day 2 starting tomorrow at 12 pm.