England’s Sam Acheampong Ships 888Live Local London With 3-2 Offsuit for 21,950

Yesterday, England’s Sam Acheampong outlasted a field of 590 players to win the 888Live Local London £220 Main Event at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City for £21,950.

The monthly event easily surpassed its guarantee of €88,000 with 564 entrants generating a sizable £111,870 prize pool, once again proving that the synergy between the live play experience and the 888Poker brand is working well.

The first of three opening days of the deep-stacked event with players starting off with 25,000 chips kicked off on July 28 with 21 of the 160 entrants surviving. A similar ratio of players navigated through Day 1b on July 29 (28 out of 186 entrants) and Day 1c on July 30 (37 out of 218 entrants) before the surviving 83 players merged into a single field for Day 2 on July 31. None of the 11 online qualifiers at 888poker were able to survive any of the opening days.

Almost three-quarters of the Day 2 field were paid at least the minimum prize of £410. The bubble was somewhat anticlimactic with England’s Amar Al Hussona failing to show-up and was eventually blinded off to finish in 64th place.

After a busy day of play, the Day 2 field eventually whittled down to nine players with Romania’s George Titoiu as the chip leader with 2.7 million chips.

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