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The 2010 World Series of Poker Europe has kicked off and it did so with a bang today. The £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event saw 244 players hit the felt in a jam-packed Casino of the Empire here in London, England. At day's end, a long 10 levels later, 31 player remained.
Plenty of big names hit the floor today to get things off and running for the first European bracelet event of the year, but unfortunately for many of them, they also hit the rail. Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, John Racener, Allen Cunningham and John Juanda were all eliminated it what was a very fast and furious day.
At the top of the leaderboard sits Andrew Pantling and he'll resume play tomorrow as the chip leader. He bagged up 106,100 chips. Hot on his heels are Chris Bjorin with 103,800 and Tai Tran with 103,400. Bjorin is tied for the lead with most WSOP Europe cashes to his name, having four. He's tied with Daniel Negreanu, who isn't here. If Bjorin cashes -- and it looks like he's going to with stack size -- he'll take the lead in that category.
* 1st * £170,802
* 2nd * £105,506
* 3rd * £70,473
* 4th * £48,202
* 5th * £33,617
* 6th * £23,900
* 7th-8th * £17,318
* 9th-10th * £12,902
* 11th-12th * £9,608
* 13th-18th * £7,350
* 19th-24th * £5,624
1 Andrew Pantling 106100
2 Chris Bjorin 103800
3 Tai Tran 103400
4 Javed Abrahams 96600
5 Chris Moorman 94200
6 Peter Wood 90900
7 Daniel Colman 90000
8 David Peters 89500
9 Thorsten Schaefer 78200
10 Eli Heath 75800
11 Francois Dequidt 70700
12 John Tabatabai 69900
13 Ilan Rouah 68900
14 Vincent Dalet 64200
15 Phil Laak 63600
16 Ilari Tahkokallio 60800
17 Jeff Lisandro 55000
18 Manig Loeser 53300
19 Michel Abecassis 51000
20 Praz Bansi 49300
21 Kayvan Payman 47400
22 Lawrie Inman 42700
23 Nicola Pero 36300
24 Nathan Lee 33500
25 Jamie Sykes 30400
26 Gabriele Lepore 29100
27 Liv Boeree 27700
28 Arto Loikkanen 23700
29 Andrew Lichtenberger 19900
30 Soteris Charalambous 14300
31 Willie Tann 11000
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