888Live London Festival Main Event
Day 2 Completed
888Live London Festival Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Team 888Poker Ambassador Parker “Tonkaaaa” Talbot is through to the final day of theLondon Poker Festival Main Event as the sole surviving Ambassador with 453,000 in chips.
Talbot was left flying the flag for Team 888Poker as the Twitch king spent most of the day under the heat of the feature table lights and the glare of the delayed stream and then hopped into the commentary booth on his breaks to help David Tuchman with some hand analysis.
Registration closed as soon as play started and the prize pool was announced as a guarantee breaking £427,730.The winner will receive £88,888 and the trophy while 45 places would be paid with a min-cash worth £2,365.
Some of the notables who busted short of the money included 2017 WSOP Main Event 4th Place finisher John Hesp, Niall Farrell, Ludovic Geilich, Alex Goulder, Tiffany Michelle and Steve Watts.
The bubble, when it arrived, took over an hour to burst and it was Patrice Alan Brandt on the button who moved all in with for just three big blinds. Shah Athar was in the big blind called with . The board ran out and the remaining players were all in the money.
Play resumes at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 16 and will continue until a new champion is crowned.
The ladies event went into the early hours and Sarah Grant had a look at what made it so special.
The last hands have been played out for the night. Chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.
It looks as if Tom Hall has edged into the lead in the final level of the night.
That is a pretty remarkable feat as Hall late regged Day 1c with minutes to spare and was handed a 15 big blind stack for his £1,100.
With 20 players left Hall has now locked up a minimum of £3,970.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Hall |
1,100,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
The board read and 888Poker Ambassador Sofia Lovgren was facing a bet and had moved all in against her opponent.
Somehow a while load of chips had got into Lovgren’s wine glass and the floor was called to make a ruling. It was not clear if there was a page in the Poker TDA rules for this particular scenario and confusion reigned for a while.
The situation was somewhat rescued when Sin Melin produced another glass for Lovgren as the floor was fishing the slightly damp chips from her glass.
Her opponent declared she could not fold and folded but to her dismay saw Lovgren had out flopped her with giving her two pair which held until the river.
There are currently 16 players left in the Ladies event.
Level: 19
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
The players are having a last break before the final one hour level.
With a $13,000 World Series of Poker Europe package for the winner there has been a lot of action but also a lot of bonding at the tables.
With 49 unique entries and 62 re-entries on the board as late reg comes to a close there are currently 30 players left in with Ambassadors Kara Scott and Sofia Lovgren flying the flag for Team 888Poker as well as Sin Melin Menis and Kelly Saxby.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tamer Ashraf Kamel | Busted | |
Eriks Afanasjevs | Busted | |
Michael Csango | Busted | |
Raul Martinez | Busted | |
Xuan Thi Thu Nguyen | Busted | |
Mikhail Akulov | Busted | |
Chris Pregowski | Busted | |
Christopher Yong | Busted | |
Artjoms Lecebrins | Busted | |
Cristian Mihu | Busted | |
Kfir Ivgi | Busted | |
Frederico Diaz | Busted | |
Benjamin James Morrison | Busted | |
Mark Smith | Busted | |
Christopher Kyriacou | Busted | |
Van Hieu Hoang | Busted | |
Yilfer Shevket | Busted | |
Caspar Lansarra
|
Busted |
Sarah Herring explores why this tournament is so big!