End of Day 1
Play has now finished for the day and Frenchman Sebastien Sabic is the chip leader with 129,900 ahead of the Russian Alexander Kostritsyn who has 105,600. We started the day with 126 players (a decrease over around 16% on last year) and lost around a quarter of the field by the end of the day, the remainder coming back tomorrow including last year's winner Men Nguyen who finished the day with 65,400.
Players we lost today include the 2009 winner Freddie Ellis, Huck Seed, Michael Mizrachi, David Singer, Eugene Katchalov and PokerStars Team Pro Alex Kravchenko. Still in though are a whole host of names including Jennifer Harman, Scott Clements, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel as well as Team PokerStars Pros Pat Pezzin, Chad Brown, Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Ville Wahlbeck and Daniel Negreanu.
The restart will be at 3pm tomorrow, there's a long way to go and we'll be expecting to make full use of tomorrow's ten levels.
We'll see you all tomorrow!