Here's a look at some of the players near the top of the board early on in Day 1b.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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72,000 | |
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63,000 | |
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63,000 | |
|
63,000 | |
|
55,000 |
As speculated, French poker player and Unibet poker pro Quentin Lecomte has joined the field in Day 1b. Lecomte is hoping to add his second Unibet Open Main Event title to his resume. He previously won in his home country the 2013 Unibet Open Cannes Main Event for €100,000 ($132,918).
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 |
During the first break, the tournament director instructed the dealers to provide a chip count of everyone in the tournament. The results are now tabulated for some players and it appears that Poland's Andrzej Kozikowski could be in the lead with 53,000 chips.
Not too far behind are Denmark's Daniel Petersen with 44,000, France's Nicolas Ludwicki with 42,375 chips, Sweden's Per Smedman with 42,000 chips, and Romania's Alexandru Rauta with 41,075 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
53,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
|
44,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
42,375
42,375
|
42,375 |
|
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
41,075
41,075
|
41,075 |
Among the players spotted in attendance is British poker player Matt Perrins. Perrins, who has over $1.6 million in live poker tournament cashes is best known for winning a gold bracelet along with $792,275 in the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #57 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em.
Since then Perrins has played very little tournament poker. In fact, he shared with us that it has been over two years since he last played in a poker tournament since he has been focusing primarily on ring games. Perrins shared he joined in on the action today since he heard about the Unibet Open and he was local enough to hop in.
So far not much has happened with Perrins as his starting 30,000 chip stack is only down about 10 percent to around 27,000 chips. Perrins is hoping go deep in the Unibet Open Main Event, thus continuing his success in poker tournaments where he left off over two years ago.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
27,000 | |
|
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With already 220 players and counting in Day 1b in the Unibet Open London Main Event, we are now at 406 entrants when taking into account the 186 who faced off yesterday.
If you are wondering what the record for a Unibet Open Main Event, we are not quite there yet as we need to surpass 460 players. With a little more than two hours of late registration, it seems that record will likely hold.
Before the first break, Daniel Clifford became the first player to exit the tournament. We learned from his opponent Cristian Cirtog that both players flopped a pair in a multi-way pot on the flop of 
. Cirtog already had the best of it with top pair holding 
while Clifford held only bottom pair with . The 
on the turn wasn't an action card for either player, however, an spiked the river giving both players two-pair. Clifford got the rest of his chips all-in and was the first to leave the tournament arena after he saw Cirtog holding a better two-pair.
Other players leaving the tournament arena before the first break included England's Dost Ghrabie, Sweden's Daniel Ekstrom, and Turkey's Orpen Kisacikoglu.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
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|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
|
Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 50
After two hours of play, players are up and stretching for their first 15 minute break of the day.
Dutch poker player Mateusz Moolhuizen is just one of two players to win multiple Unibet Open Main Events. In 2011 he won €117,000 ($163,075) in the Unibet Open Malta Main Event. More recently he took down in Nov. 2015 the Unibet Open Antwerp Main Event for €71,000 ($75,487). It isn't all about the Unibet Open for Moohuizen, however, as he has accumulated over $700,000 in career cashes according to The Hendon Mob.
Moolhuizen today is off to a slow start in his quest to become the first player to win three Unibet Open Main Events. Even though his stack has dwindled from 30,000 to 23,000 chips, the structure is very deep and this could prove to just be a drop in the bucket for this experienced poker pro.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
23,000
23,000
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23,000 |
