26 players made it through the day.

Player  - Chips
Clive Padden  - 78125
Nicholas Mclellan  - 77300
Richard Gryko  - 74625
Allan McLean  - 68125
Antonis Poulengeris  - 66025
Timothy Blake  - 64025
Mohamed Muse  - 61900
David Barnes  - 56575
David Colclough  - 56350
Steven Watts  - 50275
Nicholas Gibson  - 44550
Paul Noonan  - 44250
Alex Burton  - 42025
Nicholas Holbrook  - 40100
Jeff Kimber  - 33625
Ken Wong  - 31550
Peter Charalambous  - 29075
Arash Toofan  - 28650
Hongming Lee  - 27700
David Johnson  - 26825
Daniel Toffel  - 21650
Andrew Booth  - 20025
Nicholas Crisp  - 19950
Wayne Lee  - 18875
Charles Thompson  - 14975
Graham Rogers  - 8750

The very last hand and the former chip leader is gone holding 88’s against Dave Colclough’s 99’s.

27 players remain to re-take their seats for Day 2 proper on Saturday.

We’ll be back again later today with Day 1B .. expect play to start at 2PM sharp(ish)

G’nighty night ! :O)

He runs K7 (from the cut-off) into QQ’s of Richard Gryko in the BB.

Aurelian now down to 35k after kicker trouble with his KJ against KQ of Tim Blake.

They’ve stopped the clock and asked Alan McLean to draw a card out of 6,7 or 8 and as is his wont, he picked the middle pin.  Full chip counts to follow later and more action here for the remainder should anything exciting happen still.

Aurelian just doubled up Nick McClellan.  We didn’t see Aurelian’s hand after he called the river but Nick made trip QQQ’s with his QJ and he’s up to 70k, Aurelian down to a paltry 60k

He has KK’s against QQ’s of Danny Nutt and up to 50k - Dan on the short stack.

29 players remain : 37,600 ave. chips (clock will be stopped shortly, I’m sure and last 3 hands called)

.. is leading with 95k

after Mo Muse doubles up Tim Blake to 55k.  (AK for Tim and flops a king, with Mo setting him in)

Last level for today and blinds now 500-1000 ante 75

31 players left : 35,200 ave. chips