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UKIPT6 London Final Day: Live updates

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* 10 players (from 644) remain
* Final day starts at midday

Anatolis Jevtejev eliminated in 10th place (£5,640)
Level 23- Blinds 15,000-30,000 (4,000 ante)

Well, it didn't take long to get down to one table, with Anatolis Jevtejev busting on the second hand of the day, and it was a cooler that did for him.

David Gassian opened from late position and snap called after Jevtejev three-bet all in from the blinds.

Jevtejev: [jc][jd]
Gassian: [ks][kh]

The board ran [kc][ah][]6s][3c][jh] to make both players sets. The players are being re-drawn on to one table of nine and we'll post the details once we have them. -- MC

12.13pm: That didn't take long!
Level 23- Blinds 15,000-30,000 (4,000 ante)

We've already lost a player so the clock is paused while we re-draw for one table. Details of the bust-out are coming shortly. --JS

12.10pm: Better late than never
Level 23- Blinds 15,000-30,000 (4,000 ante)

Well, we didn't quite kick off the action at 12pm, but ten minutes later and the cards are now in the air. Tournament Director Luca Vivaldi has just informed the players that they'll become one table of nine when we lose our first player. --JS

11.50am: Welcome back to UKIPT6 London final day!
Level 23- Blinds 15,000-30,000 (4,000 ante)

We are just nine exits away from crowning a brand new UKIPT champion and the first of Season 6. Yesterday was an action-packed day where the field was whittled down from 176 players to the few heroes we have left today. The 11 levels offered up so much great action - even losing a player on the last hand of the night - so we're hoping for similar drama today.


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Jack Salter starts 5th in chips

There's a great mix of experience, talent and stack sizes on show today and the the final nine seat draw could go a long way to deciding the title. We're still on two tables of five for now and this is how they'll line up to start with:

NAMECOUNTRY STATUS TableSEATCHIPS
Jack SalterUnited KingdomPokerStars Player111,231,000
Usman SiddiqueUnited Kingdom 134,337,000
David DochertyUnited Kingdom PokerStars Qualifier141,283,000
Joe HindryUnited Kingdom 161,622,000
Jack HardcastleUnited Kingdom  18365,000
      
Warren RussellUnited Kingdom 323,894,000
David GassianFrance  33820,000
Daniel HarwoodUnited Kingdom 341,220,000
Morten HalvorsenNorway PokerStars Player36720,000
Anatolis JevtejevLithuania  37636,000

Join us back here midday when play is due to get underway. --MC

Key UKIPT6 London Facts:

- 25,000 starting stack
- Blinds starting at 50-100 for 250 big blinds
- Levels are 60 minutes, and the plan is to a winer today
- Full UKIPT schedule here.
- Other tournaments today include Day 2 £330 London Cup starting at 1pm and a Ladies Event starting.

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog


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UKIPT6 London: Usman Siddique leads final 10 at the end of Day 2

We started with 176. We ended with just 10. Welcome to the day of execution known as Day 2 of UKIPT6 London.

Whittling 176 players down to 10 in just 11 levels of play in a well-structured event like the UKIPT might have seemed far-fetched at the beginning of the day, but that's exactly what happened. And those remaining 10 players are a talented bunch indeed. Of course, only eight can make the official final table, so we'll have to lose two players before the big money jumps come into force.


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Usman Siddique is our chip leader going into tomorrow's final day of play with 4,337,000, but for the last level it was a toss up between him and Warren Russell, who's not far behind with 3,894,000.

Siddique had quite a remarkable day. He became the chip leader a couple of levels into the day and from then on he always had one of the room's biggest stacks. He even won the hand of the day, which we simply have to tell you about in a bit of detail later in this report (you can read the full hand at 8.29pm in our Day 2 live updates).

The biggest name left in our field is that of Jack Salter with 1,231,000, the man who finished 2nd at the EPT10 Grand Final for €765,000. He's had an excellent past 12 months, notching up live cashes of more than $700,000, so it'll be interesting to see if he can bag his first UKIPT title.


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Jack Salter's a happy man

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Joe Hindry and Jack Hardcastle are both through to our final day, but what's interesting about the two up-and-comers is that they're actually good mates from the same town in Portsmouth. Hindry ended play with 1,622,000 while Hardcastle is our short stack with 365,000. Hindry found a double up in one of the very last hands of the night when his pocket aces held up against Xiaoyang Luo's pocket queens. Luo busted in 11th shortly after for £5,640.


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Play up Pompey! Hindry and Hardcastle

They'll be joined by Scotland's David Docherty - who celebrated his 29th birthday yesterday - with 1,283,000, Daniel Harwood with 1,220,000, David Gassian with 820,000, Morten Halvorsen with 720,000, and Anatolis Jevtejev with 636,000.


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Docherty's going for the birthday win

The original plan was to either play 10 levels or down to a final table of eight, but as the night went on and we got closer and closer to that final table goal, an extra level of play was added in to the mix.

Day 2 is obviously the first time we have the entire field in the same room at the same time, meaning all Day 1 chip leaders could mix together to create some massive pots. There was an abundance of those today - Richard Kellett flopped quads and Simon Dryan made a royal flush!

Iceland's Daniel Palsson won't be getting any sleep tonight, that's for sure. In the hand of the day, Palsson tried to isolate a small all-in player by moving all-in himself for 940,000 - a big stack at the time. However, he'd misread who was in the big blind - thinking it was another short-stacked player, when it was actually chip leader Siddique who woke up with aces. Needless to say the aces held and eliminated both players. It was a dramatic hand and a crushing blow for Palsson, but it set Siddique up for the rest of the day.

The bubble burst at the beginning of Level 16 when we hit 95 players. Some of the notable names who managed to make the money included breakout player of the year nominee Rainer Kempe (83rd - £1,300); former November Niners Antoine Saout (80th - £1,300) and Felex Stephensen (77th - £1,300); Lithuania's Matas Cimbolas (70th - £1,470); PokerStars staff member Richard Connolly (65th - £1,470); Spain's Leo Margets (61st - £1,470) and Diego Gomez (46th - £1,660); former Irish Open winner James Mitchell (17th - £3,780), and British pro Richard Kellett (16th - £3,780).


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James Mitchell - when he had chips

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Richard Kellett finished in 16th

Here's how our final ten players will be sitting when they return tomorrow:

NAMECOUNTRY STATUS TableSEATCHIPS
Jack SalterUnited KingdomPokerStars Player111,231,000
Usman SiddiqueUnited Kingdom 134,337,000
David DochertyUnited Kingdom PokerStars Qualifier141,283,000
Joe HindryUnited Kingdom 161,622,000
Jack HardcastleUnited Kingdom  18365,000
      
Warren RussellUnited Kingdom 323,894,000
David GassianFrance  33820,000
Daniel HarwoodUnited Kingdom 341,220,000
Morten HalvorsenNorway PokerStars Player36720,000
Anatolis JevtejevLithuania  37636,000

It was a crazy day of action, particularly during the last level of the night. That means we're set up for an incredible day of poker right from the off tomorrow - you won't want to miss it. Play kicks off at 12pm so make sure you join us here on the PokerStars Blog.

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May, who will do a very high-pitched squeak right in your ear if you steal her photos. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog



UKIPT6 London Day 2: Live updates

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* 176 players (from 644) remain
* Currently playing Level 13

11.25pm: Standard Day 2 bustouts
Level 13 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)

There are two certainties in this world. The sun will rise in the morning and many players will bust early on Day 2 of a poker tournament.

Rolf Woods, Javier Souto, Edgar Drozdoc, Daniel Moosah, Jost Beifuns, Dainis Budovskis, Johannes de Hond, Kelvin Mullis, Uwe Ritter, Aleksander Spadijer, Anders Marstrander, Robert Haigh and David Roibal have already departed. -- MC

11.16pm: Should we remind Jim about the Norwegian Championships?
Level 13 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)

So Day 2 of #UKIPT I've drawn the runner up of 2014 #WSOP Main Event. I'll have to remind him he bottles it major tournaments then.

— Jim Manlove (@JimManlove) April 9, 2016

11.04am: And they're off!
Level 13 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)

It might be the Grand National today, but here in the Hippodrome we're racing towards the bubble. Cards are officially in the air, so place your bets! --JS

10.45am: All set for Day 2!

Day 2 is an exciting day here at the UKIPT6 London; it's the first time our entire field of 176 players will be in play at the same time, and at the end of the day we'll have a much clearer idea of who our finalists will be. Heck, we might even reach our final table today!

Here's the plan. We're going to play 10 one-hour levels, or stop play when we reach eight players - whichever comes first. There's a chance an extra level will be added on at the end of play if we're nearing the eight-player mark, just so we can get into the final table as quick as possible tomorrow.

Our chip leaders coming into the Day 2 are the players who topped Day 1C, Day 1A and Day 1B respectively. Xiaoyang Luo leads the pack with the 320,900 stack he amassed yesterday, followed by Xizhe Yuan with 286,000 and Irina Nikolaidi with 277,900.

Notable names coming through to play today include Jack Salter (265,000), David Docherty (161,500), James Mitchell (154,800), former November Niners Antoine Saout (114,800) and Felix Stephensen (113,500), Leo Margets (78,000), and breakout player of the year nominee Rainer Kempe (76,000).


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One November Niner - Antoine Saout

We're predicting the bubble will burst during Level 15 or 16, resulting in all remaining players locking up a min-cash of £1,300. However, they'll all have their eyes set on the £84,100 first-place prize.

It's going to a day chock full of action - you won't want to miss it. --JS

Key UKIPT6 London Facts:

- 25,000 starting stack
- Blinds starting at 50-100 for 250 big blinds
- Levels are 60 minutes, and the plan is to play 10 levels today
- The bubble is likely to burst during Level 15 or 16, and then play down to a final table, which will take place on Sunday.
- Full UKIPT6 London schedule here.
- Other tournaments today include two starting flights for the £330 London Cup starting at 12pm and 6pm, as well as a £550 NL Holdem turbo at 10pm

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog


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UKIPT6 London Day 1C: Xiaoyang Luo leads all heading into Day 2

If yesterday was ladies day then today was get a seat wherever you can day. After registration closed at the end of Level 6, 337 players had made Day 1C their home for the day, or part of it. At one point, the Hippodrome Casino has tables in five separate areas on three different floors. It felt like if you opened a cupboard door you'd find a table in there. It may have been busy but everybody who wanted a seat got a seat.

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Luo leads all heading to Day 2

Those 337 players added to the Day 1A (146) and Day 1B (161) fields helped bring the final number of players for UKIPT6 London up to 644 (Prize pool details below). The final flight was whittled all the way down to 100 payers by the end of the day, and they are led by Xiaoyang Luo who bagged up 320,900. He's the only player who passed 300k and will be overall leader heading into Day 2, where 176 players will return.

Other players who made it through the day with big stacks and/or a reputation to preserve are: Lucas Reeves (269,400), Premysl Spacil (249,900), Usman Siddique (249,200), Frank Baston (213,000), Peter Charalambous (203,700), Antoine Saout (114,800), Felix Stephenson (113,500), Tom Hall (87,100), Vicente Delgado (77,800), Rainer Kempe (76,000) and Diego Gomez (70,500). Click for the full start of Day 2 counts and Day 2 seat draw.

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Tom Hall came late, bossed some poses and made Day 2

Abalsteinn Karlsson set the early running today. He was the first past 100,000 and almost made it to 200,000 before the wheels came off. The Icelander is part of a group of players from his home country who love the tour and travel en mass to play. Karlsson made his mark on the tour at the recent UKIPT5 Dublin. His style and demeanour made him a favourite and he entered the final table as chip leader only to fall in fourth place. He told the blog at the beginning of the day that he really hoped for another deep run.

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Karlsson's swingy day ended in defeat

For a long while that looked odds-on but he lost a huge race in the latter stages to bust. He cold five-bet all in with pocket jacks and was called by Luo who held ace-king. Luo went on to make two pair and after the dust had settled on the hand, his stack had jumped up to massive 285,000, good for a clear chip lead (at the point) that he never relinquished.

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Cody couldn't make his magic work today

Joining Karlsson on the rail today were: Lawrence Bayley and Carlo Citrone - who busted in a same hand cooler; Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody; PokerStars Live at the Hippodrome Ambassador Kelly Saxby; Ben Winsor, Richard Milner, Dara O'Kearney, Martins Adeniya, Leo McLean and JP Kelly.

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Saxby trying her luck in the side events

The remaining players will return for Day 2 at 11am tomorrow where the levels will be extended to 60 minutes apiece. Ten of them are scheduled and all of them will be played unless we reach the final table of eight before then.

What will they be playing for though?

A £454,300 was amassed and the top 95 players will be in the money with a min cash being worth £1,300. Make the final table and £8,731 is guaranteed and will grows all to the winner who will receive £84,100. For full details of the payouts click here. We'll make the money for sure tomorrow but might not make it all the way to the final table. Either way, tomorrow promises to be exciting day and we invite you to join the PokerStars Blog as all the action plays out.

If you've missed any of the action from the three starting flights then click the following links:

Day 1A - Day 1B - Day 1C
Day 2 seat draw will be posted on the blog as soon as the details are passed

Until tomorrow, it's good night from London's West End!

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PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May, who will turn you into her least favourite fish (anchovies) if you steal her photos. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog



Meet Team Pro at the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival

If you happen to be in sipping distance of Atlantic City, New Jersey this weekend, you might run into some of your favorite Team PokerStars Pros and have a chance to take a seat in the All-In Happy Hour.

Today and tomorrow at the Atlantic City Convention Center, PokerStars will be flying the red spade at the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival. While there, you might see Chris Moneymaker, Liv Boeree, Vanessa Selbst, and Jennifer Shahade. You also have a chance to win some prizes and discounted grub.

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Selbst and Shahade

Considered one of the best beer festivals in the entire country, the 2015 Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival attracted more than 27,000 people. This year is expected to be bigger. There will be 150 breweries on site to help refresh the crowd for musical acts like Dashboard Confessional, Manchester Orchestra, and Reel Big Fish.

As one of the event sponsors, PokerStars is working with five participating festival restaurants to host an All-In Happy Hour. Diners who show up at The Continental, Phillips Seafood, Iron Room, Vagabond, and Tony Baloney's will have the opportunity to receive a discounted meal through a PokerStars-branded game for one hour on each day of the event.

Throughout the Happy Hours, PokerStars Pros will be around to take pictures, chat, or even play corn hole!

Keep an eye out for the pros during these times. Have fun!

Friday
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
PokerStars All-In Happy Hour: 9:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Saturday
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
PokerStars All-In Happy Hour: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.


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Sunday Majors (and minors) to look forward this weekend

Plenty to talk about looking ahead to the weekend, and regardless of your bankroll there's a way for you to win big enough to thoroughly anaesthetise any pain you might normally feel on Monday morning. 


Sunday best

Starting online it's worth taking a minute to remind ourselves how things turned out last weekend. AlexanGeo was triumphant in the Sunday Million, but it was the numbers related to that win that should prove encouraging. First prize last Sunday was $144,000, higher than the average in the post Tenth Anniversary wake with players returning for another shot at winning the biggest online event of the week. 

Will that carry into this weekend? There's really only one way to find out. And what's more you can make that discovery for as little as a few dollars in any of the satellites we have running right up until registration closes. 


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Move some mountains

While you're thinking about that the Mountain Series (yodel-ay, yodel-ay-hee-hoo) is now underway having left basecamp yesterday and being set to reach the top of Mount Everest on Sunday.

Put another way it's a great way for players who play at a variety of stakes to significantly increase their bank roll with some tempting guaranteed prize pools. 

As the Mountain Series homepage lays out, the stakes get steeper today, with Olympus and Fuju getting started. 

But for every Edmund Hillary there's the amateur with a brightly coloured anorak and a head for heights, or in this case the satellite winner ready to turn a few dollars into a few thousand. Details of that will be found in the tournament lobby. Absolutely no actual mountaineering experience is required. 

 

Card Hunt

Here's a great way to boost your working bank roll by up to $5,000 each day. Try Card Hunt. Here's how it works

Each day you'll find a puzzle in your Challenges window, with the missing pieces corresponding to a playing card. Simply win a hand with that card to "find" that missing piece. Get them all and you'll immediately win something, with the top prize being some no questions asked free money. 

It's fun, easy to take part and you might get a nice little bump to your bank roll to have some more fun this weekend. 


UKIPT London plays on

In the world of Live poker London is its capital right now, with the UKIPT Season 6 mid way through its first festival of the year. Yesterday was Ladies Day, with Irena Nikoladai bagging up the lead, while Day 1C begins today. You can find live updates of the UKIPT London Main Event all the way to a winner on Sunday. Drop by and see what our reporters Marc Convey and Jack Stanton are up to. 


EPT Live

The EPT Not Live is back after the Easter break. Here's what's in store...

"James is back from holiday and Joe is back in the UK, ahead of the UKIPT London Cup. There's a lot of tweets for the boys to reply to, before they review the most recent episodes of the EPT 11 Grand Final. They're joined (finally!) by Ludovic Geilich, who made a deep run in last year's tournament. He breaks down a number of key hands featured in the TV shows. James and Joe talk about the nominations for the European Poker Awards, having both "served" as members of the nominating panel. And the podcast's resident video games guru Matt Broughton makes a guest appearance, testing Sean Trembath from Saskatoon on his knowledge of SNES in 'Superfan vs Stapes'. #EPTNotLive"

To listen go to any of the links below.

http://www.soundcloud.com/eptnotlive
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ept-not-live/


Right To Play

Lastly but certainly not least, why not add the Right To Play event to your schedule this weekend. It costs just $2 to play, split between the prize pool and Right To Play, which PokerStars supports through its corporate giving programme "Helping Hands".


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If you're wondering what good your dollar will do PokerStars players and staff have funded more than 6,000 volunteer coaches, who have reached out to 400,000 children worldwide. So your money goes directly to good work. 

That's everything for this weekend. Play well and as always send any thoughts and comments to us on Twitter:@PokerStarsBlog.


Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.



UKIPT6 London Day 1C: Live updates

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* Day 1A is over - 37 players advanced
* Day 1B is over - 39 players advanced
* End of day chip counts are available on the right panel

11.20am: Where am I sitting?
Level 1 - Blinds 50-100

This is a question being asked a lot this morning. As we alluded to in the opening post, today is a busy day. So busy, in fact, that four different rooms/areas are packed with tables in anticipation of the busiest starting flight.

One of the areas - the first to break thankfully - is all the way over the other side of the casino, and up the stairs that transcend through the middle of the amazing Helliot Steak House. The walk is not a problem, getting back without stopping for a steak is! -- MC

11am: Shuffle up and deal
Level 1 - Blinds 50-100

Cards are in the air!

10.45am It's busy busy busy on Day 1C

Morning all! Entering the glorious Hippodrome Casino in London's Leicester Square this morning, there's a hustle and bustle about the place which we haven't seen so far. We're poised for a big field here on Day 1C of UKIPT6 London, and there's going to be some big names in there too.

Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody will be amongst the action today, as will last year's London winner Rapinder Cheema, tour regular Angelo Milioto, PokerStars Live at the Hippodrome's ambassador Kelly Saxby, and European Poker Awards nominee Rainer Kempe.

Dara O'Kearney and Patrick Clarke will be repping the Irish contingent, while Diego Gomez is flying the Spanish flag (via the UK). Lawrence Bayley, who finished 3rd in the High Roller on Wednesday night, will also be taking his Main Event seat today.

All will be trying to build a big stack that they can take with them into tomorrow's Day 2 - which is currently led by Xizhe Yuan (286,400) and Irina Nikolaidi (277,900), our Day 1A and Day 1B end-of-play chip leaders.

It's sure to be a great day of action, so make sure you keep hitting the refresh button for all the latest . --JS


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Key UKIPT6 London Facts:

- 25,000 starting stack
- Blinds starting at 50-100 for 250 big blinds
- Levels are 45 minutes on Day 1 and they'll be 12 of them. From Day 2 onwards levels increase to 60 minutes. 
- Day 1A and Day 1B are over. The field will then combine for the first time on Saturday for Day 2. We'll reach the money during the 10 levels of play on Day 2 and then play down to a final table, which will take place on Sunday. 
- Full UKIPT6 London schedule here.
- Other tournaments today include a £210 NL Holdem Turbo at 8.15pm.

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog



UKIPT6 London: Irina Nikolaidi bags 'ladies day' chip lead on Day 1B

"At major horse race meets across the UK, you'll find that Thursdays are traditionally branded as Ladies Days. They help bring a touch of grace and elegance to an industry that's (normally) very male dominated. Sound familiar?

There are seven (out of 80) ladies in the field today and that's enough for us to (unofficially) name today Ladies Day on the UKIPT."

That's what my colleague Marc Convey wrote at the beginning of Day 1B, and boy (or should I say girl) was he right.


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Day 1B chip leader Irina Nikolaidi

The women in this field today dominated the chip lead all day, and in the end four of that seven bagged and tagged their chips ready for Day 2. In the end though, it was Irina Nikolaidi who secured the chip lead with 277,900. Nikolaidi led for portions of the day before winning a big pot right at the end to secure the pole position.

A total of 161 players registered to play today, and in the end only 39 survived.

But back to the ladies for a moment. Those who survived were a talented bunch indeed; Leo Margets will be taking 78,000 through to Day 2, while Maria Lampropoulos bagged up 63,800, fresh off her 2nd place finish at Eureka6 Rozvadov for €95,404.


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A good day for Leo


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Maria Lampropoulos going strong

It was Sirilux Ho who came from nowhere to be a dominant chip leader earlier - at one point having 300,000 when the average was just 50,000! According to one of her table mates, she made seven straights in a row! She ended the day with 203,400. We look forward to seeing all four back for Day 2 on Saturday.


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Seven straights in a row for Sirilux Ho

Some of the more well-known names who survived the day include James Mitchell (194,800), Louis Salter (32,400), David Docherty (161,500), and Team PokerStars staff member Richard Connolly (131,500). When it came to the biggest stacks at the end of the night, the players who most-closely followed were Paul Romain (232,900) and Daniel Palsson (225,700).

Where there are survivors though, there must be players who didn't make it, and we had plenty of those. PokerStars Team Online's Mickey Petersen unfortunately couldn't get much going today, while former November Niner Andoni Larrabe also failed to reach the end of Level 12.


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Mickey couldn't make it

The great John Gale also joined us for most of the day too. The two-time WSOP bracelet winner made his return to poker last year following a two-year absence caused by serious medical issues (notably a brain tumour), only to win a bracelet! Unfortunately, he couldn't hold on to come back on Saturday.


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No luck for John Gale

Other players who won't be joining us on Day 2 include Deborah Worley-Roberts, Chris Yong, Steve Watts, Marcin Milde, and Neil Raine.

It's been a great day of action though (check out all the live coverage here), and we're expecting an even bigger turnout tomorrow - full of big names and maybe even a PokerStars Team Pro or two (wink wink).

So join us back here on the PokerStars Blog for Day 1C at 11am tomorrow. Until then, salut!

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 London: Marc Convey and Jack Stanton. Photos by Mickey May, who will not take lightly to you serendipitously stealing her photos! Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog


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