Francis Obadun raised to 80,000 from the cutoff before Philip Roberts moved all in for 330,000 from the button. Action folded back to Obadun who called.
Philip Roberts:
Francis Obadun:
Roberts was at risk and behind but the flop came which put Roberts ahead. The turn came the which gave Obadun an open-ended-straight-draw. However it didn't come in as the river came the to give Roberts the double up.
Action folded around to Chris Cunliffe in the cutoff who raised to 80,000. Alex Bates was on the button and moved all in for 325,000. Action folded back to Cunliffe who snap called.
Alex Bates:
Chris Cunliffe:
Bates was at risk and needed help. But it didn't come as the board ran out to eliminate him from the tournament.
The chips all went into the middle on the flop of as Anastasi Vasilou was all in from the hijack against Nick McLennan in the small blind.
Anastasi Vasilou:
Nick McLennan:
Vasilou had flopped top set while McLennan had an overpair and a gutshot. However it would be heartbreak for Vasilou as the turn came the to give McLennan a straight. The river came the which was met with a scream of delight from McLennan as Vasilou was eliminated.
The very next hand under the gun moved all in for around 400,000 from under the gun. Action folded to McLennan who called on the button. The blinds folded.
Under the gun:
Nick McLennan:
McLennan's luck would continue as the flop came which set his opponent up for elimination. The turn of the and the river of the ensured that McLennan would secure his second straight knockout.
Francis Obadun raised to 150,000 from early position before Mohammed Ghani moved all in for 635,000 from the hijack.
Obadun asked for a count and called.
Mohammed Ghani:
Francis Obadun:
Ghani was in rough shape as his pair was dominated. There would be no drama as Obadun held to eliminate Ghani as the board ran out .
Action folded around to Winston Jones in the small blind who moved all in for 390,000. James Langston was in the big blind and called.
Winston Jones:
James Langston:
Jones was in awful shape as he had run into Langston's pocket kings. There would be no saving Jones as the board ran out to make him the bubble boy and eliminate him from the tournament.
Duncan McLellanbagged the chip lead at the end of Day 1b of the GGPoker £560 United Kingdom Poker Championship Main Event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
McLellan has over $500,000 in live tournament earnings and he will be hoping to add another big score to his resume as he will return to Day 2 with 3,650,000 chips. He was closely followed Francis Obadun with 3,200,000.
GGPoker £560 UKPC Main Event Day 1b Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Chip Count
Day 2 Big Blinds
1
Duncan McLellan
3,650,000
146
2
Francis Obadun
3,200,000
128
3
Matthew Gray
2,885,000
115
4
Nick McLennan
2,865,000
113
5
Daniel Jackson
2,640,000
115
6
James Langston
2,625,000
105
7
Jamie Howells
2,380,000
95
8
Kevin Houghton
2,285,000
91
9
Ian Morris
1,995,000
10
David-Adrian Barbu
1,800,000
72
* - based on the end of Day 1b
Action of the Day
All the excitement of the day was based around the battle between GGPoker ambassadors Niall Farrell and Lukas Robinson, where their teams of freeroll qualifiers battled to be the last man standing.
However captain Farrell would let his team down as he was eliminated after only one hour of play as his pocket queens lost against pocket kings.
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack)
After that Team Robin was firmly in the lead as members of Team Firaldo started to drop. However, members of Team Robin bowed out later in the day as the numbers evened out.
Notables such as Will Kassouf and Jessica Pilkington were in the field but will have to return tomorrow if they want to get their hand on some of the £500,000 guaranteed prizepool as both failed to bag along with Farrell.
The final members of Team Firaldo and Team Robin were Gurvinder Shergill and Lukas Robinson who were both short on the bubble but they would both bag as Winston Jones would be the bubble boy when he shoved king queen from the small blind only to run into James Langston's pocket kings.
The elimination of Winston Jones brought the days proceeding to an end as the remaining 42 players will join the 32 players from Day 1a as well as the survivors from the online flights for Day 2 on Monday 16th January at 12 p.m. local time.
Stayed tuned tomorrow to PokerNews for Day 1c as players will have their last chance to try and make it to Day 2. Cards will be in the air from 12 p.m. local time. PokerNews will give all the updates until a champion is crowned.