UKIPT Isle of Man: Day 3 Underway

Day 1B

Day 1B attracted, as expected, a bigger field than Day 1A with 257 players taking their place in Villa Marina and creating a total field of 402 players. Matthew Baker bagged up a massive 235,000 in chips and he was the chip leader at the end of the Day 1B. Many members of the Team PokerStars came in Douglas to visit PokerStars home and to play great poker.

Matthew Baker leads #UKIPTIoM heading into Day 2, VictoriaCoren in top 10 of 116 remaining players - http://t.co/2mvoDhN2Qa
— PokerStarsBlog (@PokerStarsBlog) October 4, 2014

Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren Mitchell bagged 129,000 and finished Day 1B in the top ten stacks. The two-time EPT winner Jake Cody also survived the Day 1B with a stack of 60,400 together with Luca Pagano (66,400) and Team PokerStars Online’s Adrienne ‘talonchick’ Rowsome (36,400). Vincente Delgado (76,000) will also join Martins Adeniya, Full Tilt Ambassador and Dermont Blain in advancing to Day 2.

Day 2

70 players survived Day 1B and they have joined 46 runners from Day 1A to start the Day 2. Day 2 finished with 40 players and it was Daren Woods bagging the leading stack of 556,500. Woods got to build his stack by playing aggressive poker and about 90% of his hands. Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren Mitchell (77,500), Team PokerStars Fatima Moreira De Melo (58,500) and Team PokerStars Online’s Adrienne Rowsome (227,000) all survived Day 2.

In de money money money at #UKIPTIoM 3rd time in a row! #hattrick Am shortstached now with 54/402 players left. pic.twitter.com/ZTpWk86XC0
— Fatima MoreiradeMelo (@Fatimademelo) October 4, 2014

INTERESTING. While multi-tabling with the high roller, I've made day 3 of the main event! 40 of us coming back for that tomorrow, and...
— Victoria Coren M. (@VictoriaCoren) October 4, 2014

Day 3

Day 3 has started earlier today with 40 survivors with the local Daren Woods leading the way with an impressive stack of 556,500. Other stacks worth mentioning belong to Martins Adeniya (United Kingdom), Full Tilt Poker Ambassador 448,000David Hill (Isle of Man), PokerStars Qualifier 382,000,Ian Marmion (Ireland), Rational Group Staff 333,500Matthew Baker (United Kingdom), PokerStars Player 327,000. Survivors will continue to play until today until the final table is formed. Those who make it through the day will be battling for the first place of £65,900.