The guaranteed first place prize is €1,000,000 and many interested poker players are on its way to take a seat.

Originally the venue of the tournament was planned to be a purposefully built glass palace however, it never went according to planned. In this regard, the tournament will take place in the ballroom at the Hyatt next door to the casino. There were 389 Main Event players who tried to fit in the limited space even with the hangover being experienced from the party hosted by PokerStars, they still managed to get down to work.

Day 1b is usually where you can find the faces of big-name pros, however in this tournament; the faces that are usually seen on day1b are now in day 1a. The following are among the pros who decided to play today Katja Thater, Ben Kang, Tom McEvoy, Vicky Coren, Arnaud Mattern, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Michhael Keiner, VladZguba, George Danzer, and Johannes Steindl. Also in participation in the day 1a were Juha Helppi, Marc Naalden, Barny Boatman, and Pranz Bansi.

Kfir Yamin of Israel ended the day1a with the most number of chips. He will continue day 2 with 213,500 with 196 players left in the game. Events in day 2 is expected to be bigger than what had been in day 1.

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