Lau isn’t a stranger to success on the European Poker Tour. Ka Kwan Lau ended the day with a top 10 stack of 250,000. A clean runout for Leetz followed and Farrell’s efforts weren’t awarded with a bag at the end of play on Day 1a. With about an hour left in the day he found pocket aces but the runout wasn’t in his favor when Brandon Leetz flopped a set of tens before the chips went in. Sitbon wasn’t as fortunate as he tried his luck later on in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty.įarrell also wasn’t fortunate enough to make Day 2. Boatman managed to survive the day with a stack of 61,500.
Some of the early faces in the field were Barny Boatman, Julien Sitbon, and Niall Farrell.
The day started at noon local time with plenty of hopefuls seated when the “shuffle up and deal” was announced.