Former Runner-Up Sylvain Loosli Through to Winamax SISMIX Day 2
It was another record-breaking day at the Winamax SISMIX festival, with an astonishing 458 entries on Day 1b of the Main Event. This smashed the 369 from last year and, in addition to the 276 yesterday meant that there are a total of 734 entries with Day 1c to go.
There were plenty of Winamax Team Pros in action on Day 1b, with Gaelle Baumann, Leo Margets, Bruno Lopes, Pierre Calamusa and Sylvain Loosli in action. From these five, only Loosli will advance to Day 2, looking to improve on his second place in 2015 the year that Jerome Sgorrano was victorious.
Sgorrano himself was in action today, firing two bullets in Day 1b, but falling short twice in quick succession.
The chip leader on Day 1b is Jean Chenonier. The Frenchman amassed a total of 611,000 chips, slightly ahead of Slovenian Roman Gombosi (555,000). These are the only two players over the 500,000 chip mark, but both still trail yesterday's chip leader Mantas Petrauskas with 643,000.
Other big stacks include Jean De Haas (479,000), Clement Lefevre (473,000), Remi Blanc (453,000), Jamal Tahtah (431,000), and Yannick Ansenne (430,000).
These players will resume play at midday on Saturday, but there is one more Day 1 for players to play in their attempt to make Day 2. That kicks of at midday tomorrow (12th May) with a further 14 levels played.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for full updates from the final update, with organisers eyeing a record crowd, with 1,078 the number to beat from the 2017 Main Event.