Pancholi leads after first of four starting flights
UKIPT Nottingham's £1,000,000 Guaranteed Main Event Begins
Nottingham, UK - 12 April, 2015
Today saw the start of the £1,000,000 guaranteed UK & Ireland Poker Tour £1,000 + £100 Main Event in Nottingham. A mixture of PokerStars qualifiers, live satellite winners and those simply keen on playing for one of the UK’s juiciest prizepools took to the tables at Dusk Till Dawn for ten 45-minute levels.
An unusually work-friendly Sunday start means that those who took part in today’s Day 1a (and survived) will be returning next Saturday to rejoin the fray on Day 2. The Main Event also allows eliminated players fresh starts in the form of a single daily re-entry, and the option to play all four starting flights, the next being Day 1b on Wednesday 15th April.
Among those who won’t be needing another bullet are today’s chip leader Sunil Pancholi who with 170,800 leads the surviving 15. Closest behind him (admittedly not that close) are Kyriacos “Greek Jack” Dionysiou (111,800), Sandor Csaba (109,100), Jeremy Betts (108,400) and Ben Martin (106,100).
Click here for the end of Day 1a chip counts from 50 total entries.
http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/ukipt5-nottingham-end-of-day-1a-chip-cou.shtmlThe UKIPT Main Event action now pauses until Wednesday’s Day 1b, although there is a satellite to Tuesday’s £3,000 + £200 High Roller event tomorrow at 8pm, alongside a £50 + £5 (1R) Main Event satellite. Click here for the side event schedule at Dusk Till Dawn this week. Further £100 + £10 satellites are scheduled at 7pm and 10pm Tuesday to Thursday, with bonus 2pm sats on Wednesday and Thursday only. The 7pm satellites all guarantee 20 seats.
Live coverage on the PokerStars Blog resumes on Tuesday at 5pm as focus shifts to the High Roller event, but reports on today’s major action can be perused at leisure here. Keep an eye on the PokerStars UK & Ireland Facebook page for galleries, side event updates and more, and interact using #UKIPTNottingham.
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