Tamasauskas Bags Chip Lead at End of Day 1b of the ￡1,100 UKIPT Main Event
The first day of action from the PokerStars European Poker Tour London at the Hilton Park Lane has wrapped up and Day 1b of the ￡1,100 UKIPT Main Event saw Lithuania's Vladas Tamasauskas bag the chip lead after more than ten hours of play.
Tamasauskas bagged 564,000 chips which resulted in him leading the pack of the 27 players Day 1b survivors. Tamasauskas already has an UKIPT Main Event wrafaein under his belt having won the Dublin edition back in 2016 for €188,157 and will be hoping for a repeat performance.
Day 1b Top Ten Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vladas Tamasauskas | Lithunia | 564,000 | 56 |
| 2 | Mauricio Pais | Germany | 530,000 | 53 |
| 3 | Diego Zeiter | Argentina | 421,000 | 42 |
| 4 | Carl Probsting | Germany | 408,000 | 41 |
| 5 | George Demetriou | United Kingdom | 404,000 | 40 |
| 6 | Thales Salomao | Brazil | 403,000 | 40 |
| 7 | Pavlo Veksler | Ukraine | 306,000 | 30 |
| 8 | Mateusz Wozniak | Poland | 277,000 | 27 |
| 9 | Martin Jacobson | Sweden | 263,000 | 26 |
| 10 | Dalibor Mijic | Croatia | 195,000 | 20 |
Other notables who bagged included Harry Lodge (104,000), Carl Shaw (102,000) and Kyriakos Papadopoulos (48,000).
Maurico Pais was using his aggression on the bubble when he bluffed fellow compatriot Carl Probsting in a three bet pot with ace-king. Probsting wouldn't be too unhappy though, as a few levels earlier he scored the double knockout of Rafael Navas and Nicola Benedetto as his pocket kings held against their ace-king and ace-queen respectively.
End of Day 1b chip leader Tamasauskas was able to build momentum as he hero called correctly with ace-king in a three-bet pot mid way through the day which propelled his stack in the right direction.
Notable names that fell just before the bubble included Jack Sinclair as well as joint bubble boys Seyed Sajadian and Maksym Sheingart. However, they will get more chances tomorrow as Day 1c kicks off at 12 p.m. local time followed by Day 1d at 6 p.m. They will hope to join the 79 players who have already made it to Day 2 on Thursday 20th October.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all that action tomorrow and continued coverage until a winner is crowned on Saturday 22nd October.