Timothy Harold Bags Day 1c Chip Lead; Bobby James Advances

Day 1c of the €300,000 guaranteed Festival Series Bratislava €550 Main Event at Banco Casino Bratislava was a massive success as it more than doubled the field size from 240 entries to 485 entries with 245 entries getting into the action. More are still to come with the turbo Day 1d ongoing and late registration and re-entries permitted for two blind levels during Friday's Day 2.

A total of 89 players survived nearly doubling the number of players that bagged chips to Day 2 to 181 players.

Sweden's Timothy Harold bagged the biggest stack of the day of 192,800 in chips closely followed by Pokercode Head of Play Daniele Grassi, Filip Sramka, Markus Ganglbauer, and David Vedral.

Meanwhile, David Vedral, Nicolas Steils, Ed Mondo, Miroslav Lelek, Marian Flesar, and Patrick Jowa all bagged top ten stacks on Day 1c.

Also of note is that poker player, streamer, and occasional commentator Bobby James (80,500) bagged a decent stack of 80,500 into Day 2.

The Festival Series Bratislava Main Event Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Timothy Harold	179,000	112
2	Daniele Grassi	170,100	106
3	Filip Sramka	169,000	106
4	Markus Ganglbauer	161,700	101
5	David Vedral	158,400	99
6	Nicolas Steils	152,500	95
7	Ed Mondo	150,000	94
8	Miroslav Lelek	149,000	93
9	Marian Flesar	147,600	92
10	Patrick Jowa	145,700	91