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A lucky ace in the window served as the catalyst for Francisco Salvador dominating Day 1d of the 888poker Live Glasgow Main Event.
Salvador ran his ace-king into Yuzhou Yin’s kings and barely had his opponent covered as his tournament was virtually at stake. But he found the ace on the flop and secured the knockout, never looking back on his way to a massive chip lead. Salvador also made a full house against Nick Eastwood and got paid off on a big river bet on his way to bagging up 508,500 and the overall chip lead heading into Day 2.
Right behind him is a player already enjoying a spectacular week inside the Grosvenor Casino Merchant City. Maogen Fu beat a 72-player field to win the High Roller yesterday for £28,500. Two days earlier, he had finished atop a 138-player field in the Big Shot for £9,090. With already two trophies to his credit during the festival, he took a crack at the Main Event today and picked up right where he left off, finishing second on the leaderboard with 376,000.
Day 1d Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francisco Salvador | Spain | 508,500 | 170 |
| 2 | Maogen Fu | United Kingdom | 376,000 | 125 |
| 3 | Harry Cattanach | United Kingdom | 281,000 | 94 |
| 4 | Andrew Hawksby | United Kingdom | 271,500 | 91 |
| 5 | Gavin Naughton | United Kingdom | 247,000 | 82 |
| 6 | Matthew Davenport | United Kingdom | 194,000 | 65 |
| 7 | Gajanthan Kamalanath | United Kingdom | 191,500 | 64 |
| 8 | Zbigniew Wieczorek | Poland | 175,500 | 59 |
| 9 | Mariusz Czech | United Kingdom | 172,500 | 58 |
| 10 | Andrew Mackenzie | United Kingdom | 171,500 | 57 |
A total of 32 players out of 157 entries survived the day. Harry Cattanach (281,000), Andrew Hawksby (271,500), and Gavin Naughton (247,000) round out the top five biggest stacks. Matthew Davenport scored two late bustouts to finish with 194,000, while 2019 EPT Monte Carlo finalist Viktor Katzenberger (131,000) and David Algarra (116,500) also secured their spots into Day 2. Jack Hardcastle (46,000) finally found a bag on his sixth bullet of the tournament.
Eastwood built up a stack of more than 100,000 at one point today but couldn’t recover after taking that big dent against Salvador and hit the rail. Fellow 888poker pros Lucia Navarro and Ricardo Mateus also failed to make it through, as did Sinead Davenport, Thomas Hall, Robbie Bull, and David Docherty.
The 157 entries today brought the field up to 290. With currently 28 players in the turbo Day 1e flight, the field eclipsed 300 and surpassed the £250,000 guaranteed prize pool. There is also a turbo Day 1f flight tomorrow at 11 a.m., with late registration remaining open until the start of Day 2 at 5 p.m.
PokerNews will be back tomorrow as the race to the money bubble and the final table begins.
