Packer Leads Final Day at the GGPoker £560 UKPC Main Event
Day 1a chip leader Leslie Packer leads the pack of 169 players at the start ofDay 2 of the GGPoker United Kingdom Poker Championship Main Event here in Nottingham at Dusk Till Dawn poker club.
The Welshman has over $77,000 in live tournament earnings and will be hoping to add to that number here at the GGPoker UKPC Main Event. He will face stiff competition as other notables in the field include online Day 1a chip leader Andrew Wilson (3,384,380), Ali Ayub (2,340,000), Waheed Ashraf (2,250,000) and Chris Da Silva (2,035,000), who all bagged over average.
Start of Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts at the GGPoker UKPC Main Event
| Rank | Player | Chip Count | Day 2 Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leslie Packer | 4,455,000 | 178 |
| 2 | Marius Westlund | 4,150,000 | 166 |
| 3 | Duncan McLellan | 3,650,000 | 146 |
| 4 | Henrik Nowroozi | 3,580,000 | 143 |
| 5 | Simon Wilson | 3,486,394 | 139 |
| 6 | Andrew Wilson | 3,384,380 | 135 |
| 7 | Seth Webber | 3,366,453 | 135 |
| 8 | Francis Obadun | 3,200,000 | 128 |
| 9 | Sandeep Shah | 3,055,000 | 122 |
| 10 | Byron Borburg | 3,052,928 | 122 |
Early in the day all attention will be on the final showdown between Team Firaldo and Team Robin. GGPoker ambassador Lukas Robinson (285,000) is the final member of his team and he will battle Team Firaldo's Gurvinder Shergill (400,000), who also had a below average stack, to see who can win the last longer contest.
The prizepool broke the £500,000 guarantee and generate a total prizepool of £556,780 which includes £95,000 for the champion.
Action will kick off at 12 p.m. local time with blinds being rolled back to 15,000/25,000 with an 25,000 big blind ante. Blinds will be 30-minutes in length with blinds being extended to 40-minutes for the final table. Action will also be live streamed on the Dusk Till Dawn YouTube channel from 7:45 p.m. on a delay.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to follow all the action until a champion is crowned today.