Day 1 - Done | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

That's a wrap for Day 1, folks.

In excellent implodey style, our 158-strong field managed to whittle itself right down to 22, meaning that we will be coming back tomorrow just four places off the money.

It's been a pretty star-studded affair, and the list of notables who will not be returning tomorrow owing to their complete lack of chips reads like the poker section of the Who's Who registry. Among their number are Sorel Mizzi, Devilfish, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, John Juanda, Doyle Brunson, Annette Obrestad and Chris Ferguson.

Those who will be joining us tomorrow, though, include Howard Lederer, Nikolay Evdakov, Vitaly Lunkin, Men "The Master" Nguyen and Hoyt Corkins. Tristan Clemencon, massive chip leader for much of the day, is still way up there -- but he was pipped for the lead at the last minute by Eric Cajelais after the latter knocked out Annette Obrestad.

Official chip counts will magically appear overnight, and we'll be back here from 2pm GMT+1 tomorrow when we'll be playing down to a final table. See you then.