One of the most notable players in today's field surely is Tamer Kamel and he happens to sit on the same table as Tristan Chaplin. In the last hand of the previous level there was a raise to 250 and Chaplin, the player in the small blind as well as Kamel called.
The flop was checked through before Kamel made it 500 on the turn. Only Chaplin called and Kamel check-called a bet of 825 on the river. Chaplin flipped over , which caused Kamel to tap the table and muck the inferior .
James Akenhead hasn't played poker for a while and this is actually his very first event back on the felt. With staggering $3,121,326 in live tournament cashes, he is only eclipsed by one player on Day 1a. That's Surinder Sunar, who has an even more impressive $4,667,665 in scores according to his Hendon Mob profile.
Level two is underway for about 10 minutes and the screens already show 171 players registered. Two of them have been running out of chips thus far and the hosts are hoping for around 200 entries in the first of three flights.
Benjamin Winsor was in the money in the £ 3,000 Partypoker - No Limit Hold'em WPT UK Main Event in Nottingham and recently took part in the WPT National Event on Cyprus as well.
All players that won their entry on partypoker, as well as the winner of the tournament, will receive a seat into the £ 200 WPT National Accumulator Event at Newcastle. The tournament takes place from April 30th to May 3rd 2015 in the land of the Geordies and Satellites are already available.
After a three-way flop of , Stuart Hulston got involved in a raising war and was at risk with . He got looked up by one opponent with for the flush draw. The on the turn things got quite scary as now the open ended straight draw increased the odds of the opponent. It was all good after the river though and Hulston doubled up.
With 183 players registered right now, 10 have been running out of chips. Among the early chip leaders is Henrik Klinge Nielsen with almost three times the starting stack and the Dane is quite easy to recognize with his very stylish melon hat.
Joining the action on a flop of , Tamer Kamel check-called a bet of 1,000 and the Brit as well as his opponent checked the turn. On the river, Kamel announced a bet and that got the opponent out of the way. Kamel turned over for a bluff and scooped the pot, though he is still below starting stack.
"Did you just show because I was standing next to the table?" we asked Kamel and he just grinned. "No, that's good for the table image," was his reply.
On the turn, Benjamin Winsor bet 1,800 from the button and was called by an opponent in early position to see the river appear as final community card. Again the action was checked to Winsor and his value-bet of 2,800 was eventually called. Winsor turned over for a full house and his opponent mucked .