Day 1B has gotten underway in the main and secondary room with things looking up. Around 520 players are already registered, nearly 300 more than yesterday's final number of 224, and that number will continue to grow until the beginning of level five, when registration closes.

Day 1A finished with 59 players (from the 224 starters) and Alessio Peciarolo ended the day as chip leader with 274,200. Check out yesterday's wrap to see how it's done. (Spoiler: just make sure someone has the nut flush when you have a straight flush - simple!)

Paolo Fabretti and Marcin Horecki will be representing Team PokerStars Pro today. Joining them at the tables will be the likes of €5k Win the Button champion from yesterday Charlie Carrel; legend tournament grinder Ari Engel; former November Niner Antoine Saout; new mum Gaelle Baumann; Swedish EPT champions Michael Tureniec and Anton Wigg; WSOP Main Event runner up Felix Stephensen, along with newly married Simon Deadman and Shola Akindele.

Looking at the festival at large, today is probably the quietest day, in terms of events on offer. Tomorrow is a super-exciting day with the return of the popular €25k one-day single re-entry High Roller, a €3k satallite to that wil be running at 4pm today. Day 1B of the €300 buy in Malta Cup starts at 9pm tonight. Day 1A stopped when 19 were left last night; Adam Milewski claimed the chip lead with 250,000.

Three other side events came to a conclusion last night: the €500 PLO Turbo, €1k NL Turbo and the €500 NL Deepstack Turbo. Matthias De Meulder doubled his stack by the end of play in the IPT Main Even, jumped straight into the latter of these turbos and went and won it for €9,842 after a three-way deal with Georgios Zisimopoulos and Patrick Leonard. All side event results will be updated n the Side Events results page as the festival progresses.

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Updates provided by Marc Convey, with photos coming from René Velli and
Tomáš Stacha.

Well, that didn't take very long.

Just two days ago, we told you PokerStars would be celebrating the first anniversary of its Spin & Go tourneys by opening up the million-dollar floodgates. For as little as 50 cents, Spin & Go players could spin it up to a $1 million win.

Well, that just happened.

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Tonight, Brazil's Samara Lúcio took a $5 Spin & Go for a spin and turned up with $1 million.

The $5 buy-in tourney took just 21 minutes and 118 hands to turn the Brazilian into a millionaire. Meanwhile Lithuania's AA_MaKnO_AA and Russia's struchalina won $100,000 apiece for second and third place.

The back and forth heads-up battle finally endd when Samara Lúcio's [Ad][Jc] held up against AA_MaKnO_AA's [Qs][Jd].

While everyone has a chance to win $1 million, there are lots of other ways to cash in. The anniversary celebration also offered new $0.50 and $5 buy-in tourneys, the permanent addition of $100 buy-in Spin & Go tournaments, and a special deposit bonus.

If you deposit at least SD $10 (CAD $13/€9/£6.50) before 23:59 ET on November 1 with the bonus code ANNIVERSARY, PokerStars will credit your account with a Spin & Go ticket bundle worth $2.50 in total.

For now, congratulations to Samara Lúcio on her $1 million win.

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Charlie Carrel first champion of the festival

Tournament #6 of the day was actually the first to conclude today, and that might have been due to the fact that only five players took part. The €5,000 Win the Button tourney might have only attracted a small number but it meant there were no weak spots at the table.

Charlie Carrel, who is no stranger to winning trophies in his very short poker career, added another and €15,760 to the collection. He beat best friend Ben Heath heads up and also outlasted Martin Finger, Patrick Leonard and IPT6 Malta champion Georgios Zisimopoulos. Two places paid, with Heath winning €8,490.

Carrel reportedly turned a $15 online deposit into a bankroll that has enabled him to earn nearly $900,000, partly thanks to chopping the Sunday Million last year. His first major live win came when he won the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Grand Final High Roller for a cash of €1,114,000.

Chattha hyped about winning the NL Hyper Turbo

Two out of two for the Brits so far today after Chaz Chattha, warming up for the IPT Main Event tomorrow, took down the €200 NL Hyper Turbo for €4,540 after a three-way deal with Istvan Magyar and Giorgio Bellanca, who both took home €3,500 apiece.

A total of 108 players took part and the top 15 places paid. Chattha has a nine-year poker career behind him and has amassed over $1,334,113 in that time. He has five cashes over $100k amd his biggest tournamet to date came in 2006 when he won a Bellagio Cup $1k event for $132,985.

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Denmark has been a hotbed of European poker talent as long as the game of poker has been around in Europe. The TV exploits of Gus Hansen helped inspire a younger generation to pick up the game. Two of that younger generation - Mickey Petersen and Mortensen Mortensen - are regulars on the European circuit, and are two of the best around.

Petersen was famed for his online prowess and transferred those skills to the live arena when he took down an EPT on home soil, in Copenhagen back in Season 8. That victory helped secure him a Team Online contract and he's continued to cash all over the globe, except the IPT that is!

Morten Mortensen only has one IPT cash - in the most recent stop in Saint Vincent (18th for €3,750) - but has been cashed for over $750k during his career. He first came to our attention during Season 7 on the EPT when he made the final table of the Snowfest stop, where he finished eighth for €35,000. His uber-aggressive, yet smily, approach made him stick out from the crowd.

These two young, talented Danes were drawn at the same table today so we decided to stay with their tabe for a round of action. Unfortunately for us, floor man Cillian, broke the table four hands in. Mortensen was in the thick of the action though so here goes....

At the start of the round, Petersen had around 40,000 chips to Mortensen's 26,000. Blinds were 200/400, with a 50 ante.

Hand 1: Petersen folded from second position to allow Mortensen to raise to 1,000 from the next position. Tim Volf was the only caller from the cutoff but he too folded when faced with a 1,200 c-bet on a [6s][9c][2h] flop.

Hand 2. Petersen folded from under the gun and Mortensen raised to 1,000 again. Kamil Wiercinski defended his big blind before he check-folded when Mortensen continued for 1,200 on a [4c][4d][kc] flop.

During that hand being played out, Matas Cimbolas - one of Europe's form players over the last 18 months - came and took the vacated seat between our two featured players.

Hand 3. A player in the cutoff moved all in for 5,700 and took the blinds and antes.

Hand 4. Mortensen opened to 1,000 and was three-bet to 3,100 by Remi Marlair in the cutoff. The Dane came back with a four-bet to 7,100 and Marlair called. The flop fanned [8s][kh][7d] and Mortensen continued for 5,600. Call. The [2s][3c] turn and river followed with no more players betting. Mortensen opened [as][kc] and his opponent mucked.

That was the last hand before the players were dispersed around the room. Petersen left the table with just under 40,000 (since turned into 68,000) and Mortensen left with more than 45,000 (similar to current stack) after three profitable hands.

Day 1A numbers

Registration for the IPT Main Event closed after four levels of play and a total of 224 players entered. That number will be dwarfed by the numbers expected tomorrow. Around 167 players still survive.

Those thriving rather than just surviving include: David Martin (98,000), Maksim Shulga (95,000), Pedro Ventura (90,000), Leonid Sidelkovskiy (87,000) and Henry Broens (85,000). Players notable due to the fact they've busted include: former EPT San Remo Champion Rupert Elder, James Moore, Liam Melis, Salim Alibas, Davide Suriano, Masatoshi Tanaka, Ramin Hajiyev and UKIPT Dublin champion and UKIPT4 POY Kevin Killeen and Daragh Davey.

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Updates provided by Marc Convey, with photos coming from René Velli and
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