Welcome to Day 1b of the 2015 Unibet Open Glasgow Main Event
Sunday is the day of rest for many people in this world, but not if you're a poker player in Scotland because today is the day you can begin your quest for some Unibet Open Glasgow glory. At 12:00 noon BST Day 1b of the €1,100 (£800+£80) buy-in Main Event commences and should see a bumper crowd descend on the home of Scottish football giants Celtic F.C.
Celtic Park is more accustomed to housing upwards of 60,000 green-and-white hooped shirt sporting fans who loyally cheer on their beloved teams, but for the next few days the only action it sees is that of triple barrel bluffs, audacious calls and disciplined folds.
Whoever competes today is going to have their work cut out if they are to accumulate anywhere near the number of chips that the Day 1a chip leader did over the course of nine 60-minute levels. Daniel Chutrov of Bulgaria started with 30,000 chips like everyone else in the field, yet he somehow ended the night with the welcomed problem of having to cram 539,500 chips into his overnight chip bag.
To put his achievement into perspective, the closest anyone got to him in terms of chips was Katja Svendsen who finished Day 1a with 169,000 betting tokens in her stack!
Some of the United Kingdom's finest poker talent is set to lock horns with some European heroes today and we can hardly contain our excitement. Tune into PokerNews' live reporting pages from noon for all of the action, as it happens, from the 2015 Unibet Open Glasgow Main Event.