£1,000 Main Event
Day 1b Started
£1,000 Main Event
Day 1b Started
The World Series of Poker International Circuit is back in the UK at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
The stop features 12 championship bracelet events, including the WSOPC £1,100 Main Event, which is set to pay out a prize pool of £500,000 guaranteed.
Day 1b, the second starting flight of the tournament, starts today. Those who survive will make it through to Day 2 and the tournament will play down to a winner on Day 3.
Day 1b commences at 12:00 p.m. local time. Blinds start at 100/200 with a 200 ante and levels increase every 40 minutes. Players will receive 60,000 chips in exchange for their entry fee, meaning starting stacks are 300 big blinds deep. There will be a 15 minute break every three levels.
Late registration is available until 18:45 and players can take advantage of a single reentry up until the end of level 8. Play continues until the end of level 12, at which point remaining players will bag up their chips.
On Day 1a of the event, Aleksandrs Golubevs finished top of the table with 370,000 chips. In joint second place were Bhavin Khatri and Jack McDermott, who are both sat on the exact same amount, 342,000 in chips. Out of 187 entries, 64 players made it through. You can find a full recap of Day 1a here.
PokerNews will be bringing you live coverage of the WSOPC UK £1,100 Main Event, following the tournament down to a winner. Day 1b is expected to pull in a bigger field than Day 1a, so drop by for updates on what is set to be an exciting and eventful day of poker.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Day 1b has begun. Dealers are shuffling up and dealing the first hands of the day. There are currently 52 entries, with many more expected to join in the next few levels.
Javier Zapata raised to 800 from the hijack and picked up calls from Marian Butu on the button and Bixi Yao in the big blind.
The flop came . Yao checked, Zapata bet 800 and Butu called. Yao folded her hand.
The turn was the . Zapata led out for 5,000 and Butu folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Javier Zapata | 63,000 | 63,000 |
Marian Butu | 58,000 | 58,000 |
Zak Carson raised to 700 from under the gun and Cheryl Barrows called on the button. Garry Spinks put in a reraise from the small blind to 3,500. Both Carson and Barrows called and three players went to the flop.
The flop fell and Spinks bet out 10,000. Carson quickly mucked, followed by Barrows, who said "That's designed to get me in trouble", before showing pocket tens. Spinks showed his pocket kings and scooped the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Garry Spinks | 63,000 | 63,000 |
Cheryl Barrows | 54,000 | 54,000 |
Brett Dean raised to 500 from under the gun and Chun Yam made a reraise to 1,600. Jessica Pilkington called in the big blind and Dean folded.
The flop came . Yam continued for 1,600 and Yam called. The turn came the and Yam bet out again, this time for 7,000. Pilkington called again.
The river was the and Yam bet the third street for 25,000. This proved too much for Pilkington, who made the fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Chun Yam | 77,000 | |
Jessica Pilkington | 51,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Ali Ramazani raised to 700 from the cutoff and got called by Francisco Furic on the button and Chris Sieder in the small blind. The player in the big blind also came along to see a flop.
The flop came . Action checked to Furic, who bet 2,000. He was called by Sieder and Ramazani. The turn came the and Sieder led out for 6,000. Only Furic called.
The river was the and both players checked. Sieder showed for a pair of tens. Furic showed for a pair of aces.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Francisco Furic
|
68,000 | |
Chris Sieder | 64,000 |
Nathaniel Denton raised to 800 from the hijack and Steven Thorne moved all in from the button for 11,900. Denton said, "fuck it", then made the call. Players flipped their cards to go to the races.
Steven Thorne:
Nathaniel Denton:
The board ran out . Denton hit a pair of kings on the flop to eliminate Thorne early.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Nathaniel Denton
|
83,000 | 83,000 |
Steven Thorne | Busted |