Day 1b in the Books
Members of Team PokerStars PRO that signed up to play today included Dario Minieri, Thierry Van Den Berg, Katja Thater, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Sebastian Ruthenberg, William Thorson, and Florian Langmann. Most of them made it to the bag-and-tag portion of the night, but Thater, Thorsen, and Langmann all came up a little short.
Antony Lellouche began the day rather quiet, but soon amassed the biggest stack in the room. Lellouche put the pedal to the floor in the last couple of levels with constant aggression to keep his stack growing. He finished with 131,475 chips. That's enough to put him in second place on the combined leaderboard, but still a ways behind Day 1a chip leader Carter Phillips. If you followed the event last year, Lellouche emerged as the chip leader after Day 1a, but failed to make it to the money. He'll be looking to better that outcome this year.
The tournament will resume tomorrow at 12:30pm local time (CEST) and the plan is to play five levels. That plan is very tentative, as the day might be cut short if too many players are sent packing early on. The levels will be increased to 75 minutes from here on out as well.
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