Liutauras Armanavicius is one of the more successful online and live poker tournament players in Lithuania. Today he is representing his country well after catapulting himself near the chip lead in what he referred to as a "big blind special."
The hand started off simply enough with one player raising, two players calling, and Armanavicius completing from the big blind. The opening player raised on a flop of and received a caller and Armanvicious called behind. The action checked around when the appeared on the turn before things got more interesting on the river when the appeared.
Armanavicius and one of his opponents got into a raising war until the Lithuanian was all-in. To the dismay of his opponent, Armanavicius nailed his three-outer on the river holding while his opponent turned a set with .
The tournament director is busy finalizing the chip counts and the field size. However, here are some players currently at the top of the field in Day 1b.
Players are now on their second 15 minute break of the day. While we do not yet have a final entrant count with late registration open still open during the break, we already know that this tournament has set a new record for attendance at a Unibet Open Main Event in London. The previous record was 399 players the last time the Unibet Open came to London in Dec. 2014, and the tournament surpassed that number well over an hour ago.
Ian Simpson and Chris Fisher shared with us a hand that recently took place where the action was three-bet preflop where the former held and the latter held .
The flop of was no help to either player. Simpson fired out and his opponent called.
Simpson nailed top pair when the hit the turn, however, opted to check his hand to his opponent who bet at the pot with over-cards and a nut-flush draw. The action got more interesting on the river. Simpson opted to check, and Fisher attempted to make a final stab at the pot after missing his draws making a fairly big bet which Simpson called shipping him a big pot of around 45,000 chips.
United Kingdom poker pros Sam Grafton and Paul Zimbler are both among the players out of the tournament early on Day 1b. Grafton shared that, "I'd still be in the tournament if I wasn't getting good cards," while Zimber proclaimed, "I went out flopping top-set." Zimbler explained that another player also had a set with a third filling up his flush draw.
With 231 players so far joining in on the Unibet Open London Main Event today along with 186 that played in Day 1b, we are now at a total of 417 total entrants.
Level 4 just began, which is the last level players can late register. Players can also late register during the next break, provided it is before the first cards are dealt for Level 5.
and received a caller and Armanvicious called behind. The action checked around when the 
appeared on the turn before things got more interesting on the river when the 
appeared.
while his opponent turned a set with 
and the latter held 
. 
was no help to either player. Simpson fired out and his opponent called. 
hit the turn, however, opted to check his hand to his opponent who bet at the pot with over-cards and a nut-flush draw. The action got more interesting on the 
river. Simpson opted to check, and Fisher attempted to make a final stab at the pot after missing his draws making a fairly big bet which Simpson called shipping him a big pot of around 45,000 chips.
