Hasan Gul Leads Day 1d, Aloi and Nguyen Through to Day 2
Day 1d of the 2019 Lex Live London 2 £230 Main Event is in the books at the Aspers Casino and only 14 out of the 80 entrants made it through to the second day. The total number of entrants for the event now sits at 298 and only 56 have found a bag. Hasan Gul is the new overall chip leader after he bagged an impressive 595,500.
The players will continue in level 15 on Day 2 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 big blind ante. The average stack sits at about 160,000 which is about 32 big blinds. Day 2 will start on Saturday, October 5th, at 1 p.m. local time.
Action of the Day
The day started with only 20 players registered but that number ended up growing to 69 unique entries. Eleven reentries were made throughout the day to bring the total up to 80 entries which makes it the second biggest starting day of the tournament so far. The previous days had a total of 218 entrants and 42 made it through before today´s flight.
| Day | Players | Survivors |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1a | 60 | 12 |
| Day 1b | 89 | 17 |
| Day 1c | 69 | 13 |
| Day 1d | 80 | 14 |
The chip leader of today is Gul. He managed to run over his table and he had a late-night surge to the top of the leaderboard. He ended the day with 595,500 in chips which gives him a significant lead over the overall number two, Robert Ionut, who bagged 400,000 on Day 1a of the tournament.
Damiano Aloi is a very active community member going by the name 'DAMMO_23'. He came all the way from Adelaide and spent 23 hours traveling to London to be at Lex Live 2. The Australian fired two bullets already but third time was the charm for the Aussie. Aloi finished Day 1d with a stack of 167,500 which is slightly above the average stack of 160,000. Aloi was grinding a short stack after made a correct laydown but a couple of double-ups in the last two levels of the day helped him out.
Others that made it through to Day 2 include PokerStars Twitch & Ambassador Assistant Brandon Trong Nguyen. Nguyen managed to back 109,000. Dale Jordan (195,000), Richard Hayes (80,000), and Omar Al Kaisy (52,500) all made it through to Day 2 after surviving the fourth starting flight.
Three PokerStars ambassadors came out to play, but none of them made it through to Day 2. Fintan 'EasyWithAces' Hand, Benjamin 'Spraggy' Spragg, and Georgina 'GJReggie' James all participated in the fourth flight but they were all eliminated well before the end of the first day. Community member Simon 'Mzzlaar' Steenstra ran quite deep but he lost the remainder of his stack in a coin flip and wasn't able to continue his run here at Lex Live 2.
Steenstra made three final tables in side events and, just like for Aloi, third time was the charm for Steenstra who won the £100 pot-limit Omaha tournament on October 1st by beating PokerStars ambassador Kalidou Sow after a heads-up deal.
Four more flights are scheduled. The next one starts at 1 p.m. on October 3rd, and there is another flight on the same day at 6 p.m. local time. October 4th has two starting flights at 12 p.m. and at 6 p.m. They will continue at 1 p.m. on Saturday October 5th.
PokerNews will continue the coverage at Lex Live for the early flights and will provide chip counts for the later flights and then until a winner is crowned.