Welcome to Day 1b of the 2016 Unibet Open London Main Event
The second starting day of the ￡875 buy-in Unibet Open London Main Event at the iconic Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London is scheduled to get underway in less than 30 minutes at 12:00 local time. In yesterday's first flight, 186 players joined the field with 51 survivors making it through to Day 2.
The Czech Republic's Jan Riha dominated yesterday's action holding onto the chip lead since the dinner break with his stack bouncing between 250,000 and 300,000 chips most of the time. He ended the day with a formidable 298,800 chip stack.
Unibet also sponsored three eSports players yesterday in Craig Shannon, Byron Bernstein, and JJ Janssen, plus Belgium's Charlotte Van Brabander. Unibet representatives informed us that more eSports stars will be in action today.
As it is a Friday, we expect more players to enter in the second and last opening flight when compared to yesterday including French poker player and Unibet Poker pro Quentin Lecomte. Players once again will begin the day with 30,000 chips with blind levels increasing every hour providing plenty of play. If yesterday is any indication, the average stack was over 50 big blinds throughout the entire day.
Also on today's schedule is the two-day ￡330 buy-in Unibet Open London Deepstack Event at 20:00. Players begin this event with 20,000 start chips with blind levels increasing every 30 minutes.