The combined fields from four Day 1s, including the last chance Day 1d turbo that finished early in the morning, will combine today at 11am to progress to Day 2 of the PokerStars Festival London Main Event at the Hippodrome Casino.
The total number of entries across the starting days is a tremendous 944, which surpasses the equivalent UKIPT event at this venue last year which got 649 entries. The £400,000 guarantee for the tournament has been well and truly smashed with over £840,000 now up for grabs.
The details of the prizepool will be released shortly before play starts which means the bubble place will be known with all the drama that comes with that covered right here.
There will be 314 survivors taking their seats today with the aim of making it through to the final day tomorrow and the plan is to play 10 levels as they switch to hour long levels
James Mitchell had a dramatic few last levels of Day 1c yesterday to propel himself to the top of the leader board with 373,600. In second place is Mihaita Croitoru on 340,000 and third place Yuriy Boyko has 336,200.
Other notables in the field are PokerStars Team Pros Liv Boeree (32,700), Luca Pagano (135,700) and Aditya Agarwaln (107,200) , and William Kassouf (178,200), Benjamin Morrison (133,000),James Akenhead (170,900), Chris Moorman (31,200).
Stay tuned to PokerNews as the Live Reporting team keep you up do date with event in what os sure to be another exciting day of poker at the Hippodrome in the first PokerStars Festival London.
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Julien Sitbon had increased his stack to around 200,000, but his media card was just handed over. A quick look at the table showed a monster stack of Shantanu Banerji, who kept knocking out short stacks left and right on Day 1c. Banerji looked up, smiled and explained what had happened.
Banerji opened to 6,700 and Sitbon three-bet to 17,000, Banerji called. On the flop with two spades, Banerji check-raised from 16,000 to 39,000 and Sitbon called before the Brit fired the turn for 47,000 and shoved the river for 110,000 effective. Sitbon didn't believe him and called with for just top pair while Banerji rolled over pocket jacks.
Victor Choupeaux had top two against a set and busted, as did fellow Frenchman Emrah Cakmak.
The most famous/infamous poker player in the game right now played a huge hand late last night that had railbirds leaning over to get a closer view. “How does he do it?” one of them said. The PokerStars Blog watched the hand.
There was a limp from under the gun and Ibrahim Ilksoy next to him called. Marc Hunter only had 1,000 behind and that went in the pot. There were three more calls including small blind Jose Ruben Rubio Garnito.
The flop was .
Ilksoy bet 12,000 which got everyone else out except Garnito.
They checked the turn and the river.
Hunter turned over for the flopped set.
Ilksoy showed and had turned a better set.
Garnito though had for a straight to confirm Hunters exit on the bubble.
Jonathan Wong raised to 12,500 from under the gun and Jack Maskill shoved for around 60,000 from middle position. The action folded to Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero in the small blind and he moved all in. Wong called off for his last 140,000 as well and a three-way all in emerged.
Jack Maskill:
Jonathan Wong:
Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero:
The board ran out and Cuartero knocked out two opponents to boost his stack to more than double the average.
Luca Pagano had tripled up just before with only two big blinds and then shoved for his last 42,000. Mladen Ivanov called from two seats over in the cutoff and the rest of the table folded.
"I have a pocket pair," Pagano announced and Ivanov turned over his cards to see the Italian sigh.
Luca Pagano:
Mladen Ivanov:
Neither a four card flush or a miracle two outer happened, as the board came , and Pagano was eliminated.
Yuriy Boyko opened to 18,000 and Ludovic Geilich called in the cutoff, as did Sally Stephens in the small blind. James Akenhead then moved all in for what looked like 180,000 from the big blind and that forced Boyko out of the pot. Geilich however didn't go anywhere and called, which then also resulted in the fold of Stephens.
James Akenhead:
Ludovic Geilich:
After a board of , Akenhead was eliminated and Geilich recovered previous losses to bump his stack up to a million.
The action started with a raise by Andreas Anastasiades and Jose Astima called. Liv Boeree then three-bet out of the big blind and Anastasiades folded, Astima four-bet shoved from the button for just under 400,000. Boeree called for less and took a big flip.
Liv Boeree:
Jose Astima:
The flop came and Boeree smiled, then said "that is not a good start." It was all over after the turn, and the meaningless river completed the board.
flop with two spades, Banerji check-raised from 16,000 to 39,000 and Sitbon called before the Brit fired the 
turn for 47,000 and shoved the 
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turn and the 
river.
for the flopped set.
and had turned a better set.
for a straight to confirm Hunters exit on the bubble.
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, and Pagano was eliminated.
turn, and the meaningless 
