Stu Rutter and Dan Owston are still surviving, albeit on life support.
Stu told me "I just want to make day 2....that will be some achievement!"
On my last foray amongst the players, neither Stu nor Dan were in evidence suggesting both had been eliminated, Stu just falling short of his aim of making the 2nd day. Bad luck guys.
Dario De Angelis was seen betting out on a K 5 5 7 board and causing Patrick Bueno to fold, kindly deigning to show the correctitude of his decision by flipping over a deadly pair of bullets. And then, perhaps less charitably, laughing about it.
(Bueno seemed to see the funny side too though...)
There are only a few hands of the 300 600 level remaining so at this point it is worth highlighting some of the leaders...
Jioí Kulhánek looks to have in the region of 70k or so and will be in the thick of things come the end of day shakedown. I'm running ouot of adjectives to describe him but I'll go with the effervescent Daniel Negreanu is up there too with 60k+ as is the Norwegian prodigy Annette Obrestad who still has at least 50k, possibly slightly more. It looked as though the less well known Marcus Golsef was a player who had plenty of chips as well which will be sufficient to put him in the higher echelons of the leaderboard...
Another notable name, Marcel Luske has around 55k in chips, meaning many of the renowned players coming into day 1b have risen like little pieces of cream to the surface, and all the above will pose a major threat to take down the tournament.
The final level is now complete. We will be sent full and frank chip counts tomorrow around midday so will post these up when we receive them.
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