Day 1A of the Grand Prix III has come to a close, after 10 x 30 minute levels, the 296 runner field has been reduced to 70 players who will be returning for day 2 on Saturday. The average stack is 42,285 and the current chip leader is Michael Holmes with 137,100. There were 44 online qualifiers who chose to play day 1A who each received a Golden Chip at the start of play, which would entitle them to an additional £5000 should they make the final table. Eight of which have made it through to day 2. Dusk Till Dawn already holds the record for the biggest tournament field in the UK at 1058 set at the UKIPT. The guarantee for the Grand Prix III is 1600 players, and with 4 day 1’s to go Friday is already sold out and the current number of entries is 1185, so our previous record will be smashed.
The atmosphere in the club was fantastic tonight with everyone saying what an amazing experience the Grand Prix is with the opportunity to play a low buy in event with a deepstack structure and a huge prizepool. If you wish to join the action and play Tuesday to Thursday you can buy in online up until 6pm each day, there are already 183 registered for tomorrow and we expect at least 300.
Cheers
ACES
Overnight chip counts
Michael Holmes 37 4 137100
Joao Teles 37 9 97000
Andrew Johnson 34 5 77300
Nigel Lee 33 6 73300
Ian Edwards 22 5 72600
Bernard Sevilla 33 5 70100
Ashley Price 36 10 70000
Anonymous 31 1 68900
Kyle Smith 36 9 66500
Henry Whale 22 2 63400
John Coxell 22 1 60900
Alan Linford 36 6 59800
Kim Ho Chang 32 3 59600
Gareth Pearson 33 1 59500
Jonathan Slater 32 4 55800
Robert Smith 36 2 55700
David Allan 22 3 53100
Michael Wood 35 4 52800
Wayne Langley 31 4 52500
Denis Ryan 31 7 51600
Danny Ball 37 2 50900
Tom Dixon 31 2 50700
Luke Grant 33 4 50500
Andrew Green 35 7 50400
Lea Boston 31 9 49400
Craig Walton 33 8 49200
Ryan Omahony 34 9 47000
Gary North 32 10 46800
Mark Docherty 22 9 46200
Liaquat Javed 35 10 46200
Ian Gellatly 31 6 45900
Mark Lewis 32 9 42900
Liam Batey 33 7 42600
Steven Murphy 32 7 42000
Phil Gunby 22 4 41600
Timothy Dawson 37 6 39200
Miodrag Kontic 34 10 38700
Steven Morris 35 9 38400
Gareth Naulls 31 5 38200
Timothy Waterhouse 32 8 33400
Lee Connett 34 6 33400
Adrian Pullar 37 1 33200
Thomas Gannon 33 9 33000
Thomas Mclaughlin 35 2 32800
James Swatman 32 5 32700
Karen Docherty 35 1 31900
John Picken 34 1 31600
Mark Cullumbine 34 7 30500
Chris Badham 34 2 29700
Paul Lammas 33 10 29500
Barry Neville 35 3 28800
Darren Wheldon 31 3 27100
Andrew Cantrell 22 7 26600
Quyen Thai 32 2 24800
Steven Blaney 35 5 24800
Shelley Bedi 36 5 24700
Neil Barron 36 7 23200
Ravi Sharda 37 7 22600
Jonny Hart 22 10 22200
Mark Ashmore 22 8 21500
Guiseppina Folkes 36 3 21200
Lisa Strong 34 3 21100
Andrew Chan 22 6 20100
Jamie Kennedy 34 8 16200
Paula Cowling 32 6 15400
Charles Grant 37 10 14800
Abby Healy 35 8 13100
Andrew Leivers 37 3 12200
Cam Law 36 1 7800
Phillien Forde 31 8 7000