End of Day 1b
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And that's a wrap, at least for one more day. Tomorrow will see 1c, the final start day for this event and an expected 200 more players though perhaps an increase in the average age as it's Sunday and all the online players may well be preferring 24 tables online to just the single one live. Or maybe they'll assume everyone else is thinking that and actually turn up for tomorrow instead, we won't find out until then.
The chip leader at the end of the day is Wesley Pantling with 56,200 after a rollercoaster day. Some of the biggest names were involved today including both Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, the former had a great start and led for an early part of the day before eventually running an overpair into flopped top two pair. Dwan also built a stack albeit more slowly, eventually losing with queens in a big flip to Pantling's big slick.
They weren't the only big name casualties on this day as Arnaud Mattern, Phil Hellmuth, Vitaly Lunkin, Huck Seed and Barry Greenstein were all among the hundred or so players who failed to make it through the day.
Those who did however, include Andrew Lichtenberger, EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis and Scott Fischman who'll be hoping to make it to the final table on Tuesday.