Level 3

Players have retaken their seats as we move into Level 3 blinds now 100/200 437 players remain with 434 remaining.

Frederique Brelot is the lastest addition to the bust out list.

Break

Players will now head on a 20 minute break.

2nd Elimination

Ivo Schoofs was our second player eliminated when he lost the majority of his chips with AA vs KK all in pre flop against Clement Racaud when KK turned a straight, left with 2,000 chips he picked up 88 all in pre against J10 and exited the event.

Tweet from the hand,

Padraig O Neill @PadraigONeill89

8 bet allin and a call at my table. Kk v aa for 500bb as you do. Kk won.

Table Draw

Table Draw - can be found under HERE

Notable Faces

Some noteable faces in the starting field,

Lloyd O Farrell - 4th in 2008

Junior Walden - 7th in 2012

Marc MacDonnell - 7th in 2008

Magnus Nasslin - 1st in 2011

Nicky Power

Anthony Rodrigues

Tim Farrelly

Sunny Chatta

Hans Peter Jacobi

Gerard Harraghy

Yannick Bourdain

First Man Down

Colin Johnson was our first player eliminated when he ran into 3 Queens on the flop and lost a good chunk of his stack but never showed, the remainder of his chips went in preflop with 88 vs KK of Noel Murphy, with that he has the unfortunate distinction of being the first player eliminated.

10 minutes into 75/150 clock reads 430 players with 1 elimination.

Seated

Posted a picture at the start of play with an empty field, now we are up to 421 players the visual of that has changed.

Good Start

Henry Port who has final tabled 2 events previous at this venue is going for his 3rd in a row, only a couple hands into play after arriving late he is up to 70,000 from 50,000 so it's a good start for the young up & comer.

Fist hand he held 6s9s and was chasing a flush but missed it by the river but was just barreling it against his opponent and with a big 12,000 bet on the river he got the fold, next hand he picked up pocket 2's and managed to pick himself up another 8,000 or so when he flopped a set.

Twiiter # Tag

Twitter hashtag for the event will be #EDSPC

Con Collins @concollins79

About to start European Deepstack #rungood#edspc

Sébastien Bervoets @TingerBell666

Ready for the main event with my buddies. Let's go to the final table with them #EDSPC

Shuffle Up & Deal

Blinds start at 50-100 with a 50,000 stack & 1 hour blinds, we will play 10 levels today which will take us to around 1am with late entry for 9 levels.

Was the calm before the storm...

Day 1 Kicking Off Shortly

Afternoon folks and to the D4 Events European Deepstack 2013 we have a new venue for the tournament having switched to The Regency Hotel, bigger capacity room means we will be able to fit everybody under the one roof.

Dealers have taken to their seats and have the 50,000 chipstacks all done up & ready to go, players are now milling around the room with the buzz and anticipation building as they will be allowed to take their seats shortly.

TD's for the event will be JP McCann/Nick O Hara/Rodolfo Zirio so the players are in very good hands.

Player will be underway in about 15 minutes...

D4 Event European Deepstack 2013 Underway Shortly

Good afternoon folks we are just getting setup at the moment for European Deepstack 2013 will be with you all shortly.