Good afternoon everybody, I hope you all slept well. The day is now underway with the first of five starting days for the Main Event.
There are just nineteen players so far in this opening flight, but its early days and is sure to pick up as the day progresses. They will play 12 x 40 minute levels today and registration is open throughout the day. Players are permitted to have a maximum of two bullets per flight.
We’ll fill you in later on who’s playing, but a few players have already been spotted, including Kenny Burke and Neil Rawnsley from the UK.
Kenny posted one of the biggest stacks on Day 1a of The Hendon Mob Championship and will be looking to book a place in Day 2 of this one as well. When I ran the GUKPT many years ago, I once described Kenny as a ‘professional drinker’ in his walk-on introduction in the Manchester GUKPT in 2009, in which he finished 4th.
He reminded me of this and reassured me that he took it as the joke it was intended to be. Well, he’s in good company here this week, there’s several players who are at least pro-am drinker status and many other professionals too.
Neil Rawnsley is another player I know from my PokerStars day, he was a regular satellite qualifier on the tours I used to run, such as the Eureka Poker Tour, UKIPT, Estrellas Poker Tour and even a few short-lived gems like the Portugal Poker Series. Neil is still a serial qualifier and this week he has four bullets that he won in iPoker satellites via Grosvenor Poker. He’s using the first of these today.
Who will follow in Rozvadov Main Event winner Presiyan Tsvetanov's footsteps and become The Festival in Malta Main Event Champion?
Good luck to all!
