Friday was Day 1f of the 2014 partypoker WPT500 UK and what a memorable day it was. Not only was Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) packed with some of the best poker talent in the world, it was a day that goes down in history thanks to it being the busiest ever at DTD.<\/p>\n
A massive crowd of 673 unique players bought into the \u00a31 million guaranteed event and made 147 re-entries between them, taking the total attendance to an almost unbelievable 820, which means reaching the guarantee is all but guaranteed.<\/p>\n
Despite the Nottingham-based club brimming with poker’s superstars such as two-time World Poker Tour champion and three-time World Series of Poker winner Michael Mizrachi<\/strong>, it was lesser-known Richard Buck<\/strong> who claimed the Day 1f chip lead after turning his 30,000 starting stack into 431,000.<\/p>\n Joining Buck at the right end of the leader board were Gordon Huntly<\/strong> (397,000), James Thomson<\/strong> (380,000), Colin Lovelock<\/strong> (371,500) and Iaron Lightbourne<\/strong> (341,000), while the likes of Chuck Clark<\/strong> (272,500), Benjamin Carpenter<\/strong> (241,500), Carlo Citrone<\/strong> (205,500), Dhru Patel (181,500), Marc Inian<\/strong> (116,500), Kevin Allen<\/strong> (109,000), Simon Hemsworth<\/strong> (102,000), David Nicholson<\/strong> (93,000), Maria Demetriou<\/strong> (62,000), David Peters<\/strong> (53,500), Yucel Eminoglu<\/strong> (46,000), and Scott O’Reilly<\/strong> (31,500) also progressing.<\/p>\n2014 partypoker WPT500 UK Day 1f Top 10 Chip Counts<\/h3>\n