£1,100 Main Event
Jour 1a a débuté
£1,100 Main Event
Jour 1a a débuté
At 6 p.m. local time, the first of five starting days of the 2018 888poker LIVE Festival London £1,100 Main Event kicks off at the Aspers Casino in Westfield Stratford City. The highlight of the festival in the heart of London comes with a guaranteed prize pool of £400,000 and is expected to be easily surpassed.
Both the £220 Opening Event and the £2,200 High Roller smashed their guarantees and the £1,100 Main Event will likely do so as well. All starting days will play a total of 12 levels and the first four starting days will feature levels of 40 minutes, whereas the turbo heat on Saturday, December 1st, 2018, will have a level duration of 20 minutes.
All players receive 30,000 in chips and the re-entries are available throughout each Day 1, the registration will close at the start of Day 2 on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018, at 2 p.m. local time. A 30-second Action Clock is in play and the event also features the popular big blind ante. On top of the trophy and prize money, the winner of the £1,100 Main Event will also receive a package for the 2019 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, courtesy of sponsor 888poker.
Main Event Day 1a Blind Level Structure
Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 100 | 100 | 0 |
2 | 40 | 100 | 200 | 0 |
3 | 40 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
4 | 40 | 200 | 300 | 300 |
5 | 40 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
6 | 40 | 300 | 500 | 500 |
7 | 40 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
8 | 40 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
9 | 40 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
10 | 40 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
11 | 40 | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
12 | 40 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
The PokerNews live updates will focus on the £2,200 High Roller and the final chip counts along with a brief recap of Day 1a will be published later tonight.
Courtesy of Tomas Stacha/888poker.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Antoine Labat |
300,500
300,500
|
300,500 |
|
||
Scott Adams |
272,500
272,500
|
272,500 |
Neil Mahamdi |
264,000
264,000
|
264,000 |
Manh The Nguyen
|
261,000
261,000
|
261,000 |
Christopher Yong |
180,500
180,500
|
180,500 |
Michael Isiguzo
|
168,000
168,000
|
168,000 |
Florence Allera |
164,500
164,500
|
164,500 |
Constantin Baratairu
|
156,000
156,000
|
156,000 |
Philippe Souki |
129,000
129,000
|
129,000 |
Chris Da-Silva |
126,000
126,000
|
126,000 |
Benny Glaser |
101,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
||
Ana Marquez |
95,500
95,500
|
95,500 |
Vadim Cojocaru |
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Nik Persaud |
81,000
81,000
|
81,000 |
Harry Lodge |
79,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
|
||
John Cynn |
76,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
|
||
Parker Talbot |
64,500
64,500
|
64,500 |
Vivian Saliba |
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
||
Vinod Fernandez |
59,500
59,500
|
59,500 |
Oliver Price |
54,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Jonty Williams
|
54,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Ronner Alexandre De Miranda Soares
|
36,500
36,500
|
36,500 |
Jeremy Saderne | 20,000 | |
|
The £1,100 Main Event at the 2018 888poker LIVE Festival London is off to a great start, as 76 unique players showed up for the first of five starting days. On top of that, another 21 re-entries were purchased to create a field of 97 entries on Day 1a at the Aspers Casino at Westfield Stratford City. After 12 levels of 30 minutes each, it was Antoine Labat that turned his starting stack of 30,000 into ten times as many, bagging up 300,500 in the early morning hours.
Labat finished 9th in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas for $1 million and very recently added another six-figure score to his poker resume. Among others, Labat faced John Cynn back then in Sin City and the 2018 WSOP Main Event champion also made the trip over to London to take part in the festival in London. Cynn bagged up 76,000 on Day 1a and now has two days off before returning for Day 2 on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018.
Other big stacks and notables that bagged and tagged include the Brits Scott Adams (272,500) and Neil Mahamdi (264,000), Christopher Yong (180,500), Chris Da-Silva (126,000), Benny Glaser (101,000), and Harry Lodge (79,000). Team 888poker saw the ambassadors Ana Marquez (95,500), Parker Talbot (64,500) and Vivian Saliba (60,000) advance, while Dominik Nitsche and Sofia Lovgren were among those that busted.
Terry Jordon took several shots at running up a stack, word on the street is that he fired at least four entries already, but didn't find a bag. Other big names that came and left without chips were Steve Watts, Sam Grafton, Conor Beresford and Andrew Hulme. Beresford was ousted in the final level of the night when he lost a flip with ace-jack suited against the pocket eights of Benny Glaser.
While the entire poker room of the Aspers Casino was buzzing with two Main Event satellites, Day 2 of the £2,200 High Roller, Day 1a of the £1,100 Main Event and the cash game tables in full swing, another Brit that gained a lot of popularity in the previous year was spotted in the tournament area. None other than John Hesp sat down with PokerNews' Sarah Herring for a quick chat on Facebook live and was all smiles. The fairytale story of Hesp saw the Brit on the final table of the 2017 WSOP Main Event and he finished 4th for $2.6 million.
The Main Event continues with two starting days each in the next two days. Day 1b kicks off on Friday, November 30th, 2018, as of 1 p.m. local time and Day 1c kicks off at 6 p.m. the same day. Furthermore, Day 1d and 1e take place the next day with the final heat in a turbo format and levels of 20 minutes each.
£1,100 Main Event
Jour 1a terminé