Main Event
Day 1ef Completed
Main Event
Day 1ef Completed
The fifth starting flight of the £230 Main Event at Lex Live 2 in the Aspers Casino in London is in the books and it was the biggest flight so far. A total of 93 unique entries were made and another 21 reentries were made on top of that to create a total of 114 entries. Only 24 made it through to Day 2 and Juan Avila finished the day with the chip lead after bagging 336,500. Henri 'Buehlero' Buehler (81,000) and PokerStars streamer Mason 'Pyefacepoker' Pye (146,000) both made it through to Day 2 as well.
The total number of entrants in the first five flights is 412 and 80 of those made it through to Day 2. There is still a flight running at the moment and chip counts will be posted when the day is over. There will be another flight and a special turbo flight on Friday, October 4th.
Day | Players | Survivors |
---|---|---|
Day 1a | 60 | 12 |
Day 1b | 89 | 17 |
Day 1c | 69 | 13 |
Day 1d | 80 | 14 |
Day 1e | 114 | 24 |
Total | 412 | 80 |
Day 1e Action
The day started with 48 players registered and that number quickly grew to 93 unique entries. Another 21 reentries were made to create the biggest starting flight to date. Plenty of familiar faces showed up for the early flight as there was a beer pong activity planned for later in the day and most of the community members chose to play the early flight and attend the beer pong event after.
A couple of familiar faces that made it through to Day 2 include community member Daniel 'Neryus' Moes (200,500), Joan Hadley (160,500), Pye (146,000), Director of Poker Product at PokerStars Chris Straghalis (132,000), and Buehler (81,000). They will all return on Saturday, October 5th to play Day 2 of the tournament.
A couple of the community members that didn't make it through to Day 2 include Tjenno 'TjennoE' Eskes, Nadia 'Kaboompoker' Wanzi, Sander Groeneveld, Gardar 'viTNE' Svavarsson, and Chris 'Chrism' Martin. They all have two more shots at making it through to Day 2 on Friday, October 4th.
Plenty of PokerStars ambassadors showed up, but 'Pyefacepoker' was the only one to actually make it through to Day 2. Chris Moneymaker, Fintan 'EasyWithAces' Hand, Tom 'Pleb_Method' Hayward, and Arlie Shaban registered the tournament but all failed to find a bag at the end of the day. Shaban came close but he lost a flip at the end of the day with ace-queen against pocket fives and he wasn't able to hit anything and he was eliminated.
There was a success for the PokerStars squad, but it didn't come in the Main Event. Benjamin 'Spraggy' Spragg managed to win the £40 FU Flip tournament. He beat Michael Perks in a heads-up battle while Spraggy's own brother came third in the tournament. Community member and Lex Veldhuis his YouTube editor Dwight 'Extempore' van der Wal came in fourth. Spraggy took home 601 for the win, but most importantly, he snagged away a trophy to take home.
Day 1f started at 6 p.m. local time and there are 87 entries made at the moment. Chip counts will be uploaded as soon as they are available after the flight has ended.
PokerNews will return to Aspers Casino tomorrow to provide coverage of Day 1g of the tournament. Cards will be in the air at 12:00 noon and a second flight with 20-minute levels will start at 6 p.m. local time.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Valentin Ehmling |
290,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
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Kevin Oakland |
271,500
271,500
|
271,500 |
Axel Norstrom |
252,000
252,000
|
252,000 |
Mohammed Zahour
|
230,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
Stewart Downes |
207,000
207,000
|
207,000 |
Erwin Wiechers |
173,500
173,500
|
173,500 |
Long Kin Ken Chow |
168,500
168,500
|
168,500 |
Stephen Okeeffe
|
163,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
Matthew Saxby
|
149,000
149,000
|
149,000 |
Brian Riley |
134,000
134,000
|
134,000 |
Xiaohe Tan |
130,500
75,500
|
75,500 |
Andrew Mattison |
127,000
127,000
|
127,000 |
Peter Vu |
110,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Atanas Pavlov |
105,500
105,500
|
105,500 |
Ionut Dragomir |
92,500
92,500
|
92,500 |
Harry Parsons
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Dariusz Idzikowski |
71,500
71,500
|
71,500 |
Scott Bailey
|
61,000
61,000
|
61,000 |
Andrew Wilson |
58,500
58,500
|
58,500 |
|
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Piyush Aggarwal
|
48,500
48,500
|
48,500 |
Marius-Constantin Hutupasu
|
47,500
47,500
|
47,500 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Juan Avila
|
336,500
336,500
|
336,500 |
|
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Brett Dean
|
291,000
291,000
|
291,000 |
Robert Hutchinson |
213,500
213,500
|
213,500 |
Einius Kazlauskas |
212,000
212,000
|
212,000 |
Daniel Moes |
200,500
68,500
|
68,500 |
James Shovelin |
180,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
Joan Hadley |
160,500
51,500
|
51,500 |
Danny Ball |
160,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Laurence Donaldson |
149,000
149,000
|
149,000 |
Mason Pye |
146,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Daiva Byrne |
132,500
-14,500
|
-14,500 |
Chris Straghalis |
132,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
Rocco Blank |
131,500
131,500
|
131,500 |
Nicholas Lee |
121,000
121,000
|
121,000 |
Misiano-Yo Post
|
115,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
Marjan Mitrovski |
109,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
Zidane van Dam |
102,500
102,500
|
102,500 |
Toe-Soon Cho
|
97,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
Michael Davis |
88,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
Robert McCracken
|
84,500
84,500
|
84,500 |
Henri Buehler |
81,000
-74,000
|
-74,000 |
Hristo Anastassov |
71,500
71,500
|
71,500 |
Davey Mavah
|
69,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
Tim Timotheos
|
41,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
The tournament staff just announced that they will play three more hands until the day is officially done. Full chip counts and a recap of the day will follow shortly after.
Henri 'Buehlero' Buehler raised to 8,000 from the hijack and he was called by the players in the cutoff and on the button. Danny Ball sat in the big blind and he jammed all in for 43,000. Buehler and his neighbor in the cutoff called to see a three-way flop.
The flop was dealt and both Buehler and his neighbor checked. The turn was the and Buehler bet 100,000 to put his opponent all-in for effectively 52,000. He got out of the way and Buehler opened up for two pair but he was drawing thin against the of Ball.
The river was the and Ball tripled up right before the end of Day 1e.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Henri Buehler |
155,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
Danny Ball | 130,000 |
The last level of the tournament just started. They will play for another 20 minutes and then a certain amount of hands. After that they will bag up and come back on Saturday, October 5th, for Day 2 of the tournament.
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Daniel Moes sat in the hijack when he raised to 7,000. There was just a big blind it folded to the player that posted it and he pushed all in for effectively 64,500, covering Moes. Moes, also known as 'Neryus' in Lex's community, called and they opened up.
Daniel Moes:
Big blind:
The board ran out and Moes collected a welcome double up about 35 minutes before the end of the day.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daniel Moes |
132,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
Arlie Shaban has been playing a stack on the shorter side for most of the day and he is now eliminated and on his way to play beer pong. Shaban was kind enough to share the details of his bust out on his way out.
''There was a raise, then a jam, I rejammed with ace-queen. The initial raiser folded and the all-in player had pocket fives. I bricked every street and that was it.''
Shaban added that was ''down to play everything tomorrow'' so we will see him back in the Main Event again tomorrow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Arlie Shaban | Busted | |