2.15pm: Cards are in the air
Players are still dribbling in here but cards are in the air and play is underway, a lot of tables are playing six handed or so at the moment.
2.10pm: B is for bigger
Welcome to Day 1B of the first ever UKIPT Series, a quarterly £250 +£25 event that'll be held here at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. Whilst they'll be plenty of Saturday shoppers outside in the streets looking for some valuable theatre tickets as they go about town, they'll be a couple of hundred poker players in the 'theatre' area of the Hippodrome looking to take an opponent to value town.
Amongst the thronged masses will be two members of Team PokerStars Pro as both Liv Boeree and Jake Cody are slated to play today. Same as yesterday, players will start with 20,000 chips and play the same structure as the UKIPT main event, with the only difference being the levels are 30 minutes in length. Get through 12 of them and you've made Day 2. That was something only 39 of 147 players managed to achieve yesterday, Pat Simcoe was chip leader on 220,500. The Day 1B chip leader usually finishes on more, will that be the case today? Stay right here to find out.
PokerStars Blog reporting team in London:Nick Wright. Photos by Neil Stoddart.