Good morning and welcome back to the moodily lit confines of the Show Centre at the Tróia Design Hotel where we are just 15 minutes or so away from Day 2.
Yesterday 134 players battled it out over nine levels to get here. Fifty-five of them succeeded, with Diogo Cardoso in the lead on 149,300. That’s nothing, though, compared to Day 1a chip leader Michiel Brummelhuis, who goes into Day 2 with a massive, obscene lead – he finished his start day with 235,500 and remains the chip daddy as we head into the day.
The 134 Day 1b runners together with the 108 who played Day 1a makes a combined field of 242 and a prizepool of €363,000 – please see the payouts page for full details of how 36 lucky players are going to get paid.
Dealers and chips have appeared at the tables and we expect we will soon see some players too. Please stand by…
