It's not only in Paris that poker stars are battling it out for some serious cash. On Monday, the 2013 World Poker Tour Alpha8 kicked off in London at the luxurious Palm Beach on Mayfair venue. The £100,000 buy-in tournament attracted 10 players spread across two tables at the beginning of Day 1 and ended with 19 entries.
11 players made it through Day 1 inluding Viktor Blom, Tony G, Talal Shakerchi and German high stakes specialist Tobias Reinkeimer who bagged up the largest stack at the end of play. Reinkeimer accumulated 428,000 chips mostly thanks to the following hand against Sorel Mizzi and Antonio Esfandiari.
Mizzi bet 25,000 on the flop 9
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and Reinkeimer raised to 50,000. Esfandiari moved all in, Mizzi called with his remaining chips and so did Reinkeimer. There was about 400,000 chips in the pot and all players revealed their cards...
Mizzi turned over JT, Reainkeimer held Q8 and Esfandiari had TT. The dealer burned a card and dealt the A turn card which locked up the hand for Reinkeimer. Mizzi was sent packing and Esfandiari was left with 10,600 chips, which he lost shortly after. Esfandiari re-entered the tournament after that but busted again. It will be interesting to see if he fires a third bullet today.
Day 2 will kick off at 12 pm local time and continue until a winner has been crowned. Registration will be open during the first level of the day, so later on today we will know the total prize pool and also the winner.
1 Tobias Reinkemeier 428,000
2 Fabian Quoss 271,200
3 Tony G 252,000
4 Igor Kurganov 203,900
5 Viktor Blom 174,800
6 Richard Yong 141,800
7 Scott Seiver 131,700
8 Philipp Gruissem 110,300
9 Max Altergott 83,200
10 Talal Shakerchi 66,900
11 Steven Silverman 38,700
He have around 20k chips left he have A 9 suited and he got 2 suited cards on flop and another player raise to 5k and he just go all in and nothing on turn and river. When he stand up the face telling everything to us 
