Day 2: James Mitchell Leads PokerStars Festival Main Event Day 2
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.