Der erste Starttag beim £ 5.000 Main Event der PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London ist gespielt. 146 der 339 Starter sind gestern Mittwoch, den 29. September 2010, an Tag 1A übrig geblieben. Konstantin Bücherl aka BongBob liegt auf Rang 2 mit 187.900 Chips.
Ein hochkarätiges Feld präsentierte sich bereits am ersten Starttag. Neben den PokerStars Pros Bertrand Grospellier, Vanessa Selbst, Vanessa Rousso, Alex Kravchenko, Marcel Luske, Luca Pagano, Barry Greenstein, Thomas Bichon oder auch Greg Raymer, waren auch Carlos Mortensen, Martin Kabrhel, Roland de Wolfe, Allen Cunningham, Shannon Shorr oder auch William Thorson mit von der Partie. Auch die deutschsprachigen Spieler waren stark vertreten – Konstantin Bücherl, Jan Heitmann, Max Heinzelmann, Benny Spindler, Thomas Dolezal, Matthias Neu, Jan Meinberg, Timo Pfützenreuter, Mario Puccini, Sebastian Panny, Michael Skender, Tim Kahlmeyer, Philipp Gruissem oder auch Ronny Kaiser.
Sehr früh musste sich bereits Thomas Dolezeal verabschieden und auch für Philipp Gruissem war früh Feierabend. Bei den Pros erwischte es Sorel Mizzi mit 



















In London wird Luca Pagano seinen Rekord der meisten EPT Cashes nicht verbessern, denn dieses Mal war schon an Tag 1A Feierabend. Roland de Wolfe scheiterte mit 





Heute geht es mit Tag 1B weiter. Boris Becker, Sandra Naujoks, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Johannes Strassmann und auch Florian Langmann werden ins Geschehen eingreifen, ebenso wie PokerStars Neuverpflichtung Liv Boeree, die erstmals mit dem Stars-Logo spielen wird.
| Rang | Name | Nation | Chips |
| 1 | Soheb Porbandarwala | USA | 218.600 |
| 2 | Konstantin Bucherl | Germany | 187.900 |
| 3 | Thomas Bichon | France | 185.000 |
| 4 | John O’Shea | Ireland | 184.400 |
| 5 | Joep van den Bijgaart | Netherlands | 167.600 |
| 6 | Dominique Franchi | France | 152.800 |
| 7 | Adrian Bussman | Sweden | 152.700 |
| 8 | Craig Stevens | UK | 149.300 |
| 9 | Steven Levy | USA | 145.400 |
| 10 | Daniel Da Silva Pacheco | Portugal | 144.900 |
| 11 | Adham Beainy | Lebanon | 144.000 |
| 12 | Asim Mumtaz | UK | 130.500 |
| 13 | Barry Shulman | USA | 129.200 |
| 14 | William Thorson | Sweden | 125.600 |
| 15 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 124.800 |
| 16 | Patrick Carron | USA | 123.300 |
| 17 | Benjamin Spindler | Germany | 120.100 |
| 18 | Jeff Sarwer | Canada | 118.800 |
| 19 | Rumit Somaiya | UK | 116.400 |
| 20 | Eric Haik | France | 116.100 |
| 21 | Mattias Lannermark | Sweden | 113.400 |
| 22 | Jamie Burland | UK | 112.100 |
| 23 | Jasper Te Selle | Netherlands | 112.100 |
| 24 | Alex Kravchenko | Russia | 111.000 |
| 25 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 110.200 |
| 26 | Tommy Westerlund | Sweden | 109.000 |
| 27 | Greg Raymer | USA | 105.200 |
| 28 | Ryan Franklin | USA | 105.200 |
| 29 | David Trigg | UK | 105.100 |
| 30 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 103.600 |
| 31 | Nicky Lee Evans | UK | 103.400 |
| 32 | Michel Abecassis | France | 103.000 |
| 33 | Robin Keston | UK | 102.000 |
| 34 | Jorg Niepenberg | Germany | 97.200 |
| 35 | Jake Cody | UK | 94.400 |
| 36 | Keven Stammen | USA | 94.100 |
| 37 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 93.600 |
| 38 | Richard Salomon | USA | 93.500 |
| 39 | Pusztai Balint | Hungary | 91.500 |
| 40 | Mclean Karr | USA | 90.700 |
| 41 | Masaaki Kagawa | Japan | 90.200 |
| 42 | Arnaud Mattern | France | 89.400 |
| 43 | Will Failla | USA | 89.000 |
| 44 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 88.900 |
| 45 | Jan Heitmann | Germany | 86.800 |
| 46 | Joao Baumgarten | Brazil | 85.700 |
| 47 | Jason Dewitt | United States | 84.600 |
| 48 | Peter Gould | UK | 83.000 |
| 49 | David Steicke | Australia | 80.200 |
| 50 | Victoria Coren | United Kingdom | 79.700 |
| 51 | Jimmy Ostensson | Swden | 79.700 |
| 52 | Femi Fakinle | Ireland | 78.000 |
| 53 | Yury Esaulov | Russia | 77.400 |
| 54 | Jason Gray | Australia | 76.800 |
| 55 | Christopher Moore | USA | 76.200 |
| 56 | Talal Shakerchi | UK | 74.200 |
| 57 | Jarred Solomon | South Africa | 74.200 |
| 58 | John Juanda | USA | 71.400 |
| 59 | Kimmo Kurko | Finland | 71.100 |
| 60 | Rafal Michalowski | USA | 70.600 |
| 61 | Arjanit Kondaj | UK | 70.300 |
| 62 | Pim De Goede | France | 69.100 |
| 63 | Jonathan Weekes | UK | 67.800 |
| 64 | Matt Marafioti | Canada | 67.100 |
| 65 | Michael Graydon | Ireland | 66.400 |
| 66 | Andrew Scott | Australia | 66.200 |
| 67 | Huang Xun | UK | 65.500 |
| 68 | Alexander Debus | Germany | 65.400 |
| 69 | Ivan Demidov | Russia | 65.000 |
| 70 | Salman Behbehani | USA | 64.800 |
| 71 | Christopher Seeger | USA | 64.700 |
| 72 | David Paredes | USA | 62.700 |
| 73 | Tomas Macnamara | UK | 62.200 |
| 74 | Derek Leach | UK | 58.700 |
| 75 | Patrik Selin | Sweden | 57.900 |
| 76 | Gabriel Alarie | Canada | 57.500 |
| 77 | Robert Willis | Canada | 56.500 |
| 78 | Teddy Sheringham | UK | 56.400 |
| 79 | Deividas Kulboka | Lithuania | 56.400 |
| 80 | Nikolay Losev | Russia | 56.300 |
| 81 | Jim Collopy | USA | 56.000 |
| 82 | Marcel Van Klinken | Netherlands | 56.000 |
| 83 | Bernhard Braumandi | UK | 55.900 |
| 84 | Yongfu Cao | China | 55.500 |
| 85 | Artur Wasek | Poland | 55.100 |
| 86 | Craig Hopkins | UK | 54.300 |
| 87 | Toni Pettersson | Finland | 52.100 |
| 88 | Robert Trevor Akery | UK | 51.200 |
| 89 | Jason Senti | USA | 51.000 |
| 90 | Percy Ward | UK | 50.000 |
| 91 | Ran Azor | Israel | 50.000 |
| 92 | Patrick Renkers | Netherlands | 50.000 |
| 93 | Cathy Hong | Korea | 49.500 |
| 94 | Cherif Zacca | France | 47.700 |
| 95 | Yasuhiro Waki | Japan | 47.000 |
| 96 | David Rawnsley | UK | 44.900 |
| 97 | Piero Mormina | Italy | 44.200 |
| 98 | Gustavo Zito | Italy | 43.800 |
| 99 | Bassam Elnajjar | Lebanon | 43.100 |
| 100 | Raymond Wu | Taiwan | 41.900 |
| 101 | Bruce Atkinson | UK | 41.500 |
| 102 | Lothar Meier | Germany | 40.400 |
| 103 | Charles Clark | UK | 38.700 |
| 104 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 38.400 |
| 105 | Daniele Vesco | Italy | 38.300 |
| 106 | Leon Campbell | UK | 38.000 |
| 107 | Frank Kassela | USA | 37.600 |
| 108 | Laurence Houghton | United Kingdom | 37.500 |
| 109 | Richard Grace | New Zealand | 36.900 |
| 110 | Thomas Middleton | UK | 36.700 |
| 111 | Mickey Petersen | Denmark | 36.600 |
| 112 | Steffen Lameli | Germany | 35.900 |
| 113 | Guy Gorelik | Israel | 34.000 |
| 114 | Claudio Quagliata | Argentina | 33.600 |
| 115 | Scott Fischman | USA | 32.700 |
| 116 | Joseph Mouawad | Lebanon | 32.700 |
| 117 | Christian Grundtvig | Denmark | 32.700 |
| 118 | Allan Baekke | Denmark | 32.000 |
| 119 | Quentin Krueger | Canada | 31.600 |
| 120 | Fernando Brito | Portugal | 30.800 |
| 121 | Hans Heideman | Sweden | 30.800 |
| 122 | Nick Binger | USA | 30.700 |
| 123 | Matthias Neu | Germany | 30.000 |
| 124 | Jose Carlos Da Silva | France | 29.900 |
| 125 | Marcel Bjerkmann | Norway | 28.700 |
| 126 | Benjamin Roberts | UK | 28.000 |
| 127 | Gianni Giaroni | Italy | 27.800 |
| 128 | Eddie Tasbas | Sweden | 26.300 |
| 129 | Tim Kahlmeyer | Germany | 25.400 |
| 130 | Mikulik Taras | Ukraine | 24.800 |
| 131 | Vladislav Varlashin | Russia | 23.900 |
| 132 | Peter Stuart Akery | United Kingdom | 23.900 |
| 133 | Ziv Caspi | Israel | 23.600 |
| 134 | Neil Channing | UK | 23.300 |
| 135 | Johannes Heldens | Germany | 22.100 |
| 136 | Almira Skripchenco | France | 21.900 |
| 137 | Allen Cunningham | USA | 21.500 |
| 138 | Jakob Carlsson | Sweden | 21.100 |
| 139 | Stephane Albertini | France | 18.900 |
| 140 | Mark Crocker | UK | 17.200 |
| 141 | Andrew Chen | Canada | 17.100 |
| 142 | Barry Greenstein | USA | 15.800 |
| 143 | Asa Smith | UK | 15.200 |
| 144 | Vanessa Rousso | USA | 14.300 |
| 145 | Darren Kramer | South Africa | 12.000 |
| 146 | Frank Mariani | USA | 9.600 |