The second and third of three opening-day flights in the largest women's poker tournament ever held outside Las Vegas, the PokerStars-sponsored Women's World Championship main event, wrapped up action on Friday at London's Hippodrome Casino. Norway's Christina Solli, playing in the Day 1B flight, amassed a 429,000 stack to take the overall lead into Saturday's Day 2.
Solli (shown above) finished well ahead of the rest of the Day 1B players, with Belgium's Ann-Roos Callens bagging 310,000 to top the other Day 1B survivors. The Day 1B flight drew 148 entrants, with 30 moving on to Saturday's Day 2 and the money bubble looming.
Among the well-known players who played the Day 1B flight but didn't move on were Marle Spragg, Katie Swift, Nikki Limo, Kyna England, Soraya Estrada, Alex Loveless, and Alex O'Brien.
PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craigie spoke with the Day 1C crowd. Glasgow tops Day 1C flight
Also running on Friday was a turbo-paced 1C flight which attracted another 81 entries, swelling the overall attendance to 271 entries and setting the new other-than-Vegas mark. The Day 1C group was led by the UK's Laura Glasgow, who ended the night with a solid 361,000 in chips, just ahead of Sophie Stubbs' 350,000 total. Glasgow busted out of the Day 1B flight before entering 1C, and she and Stubbs led 16 survivors of the Day 1C field, with those remaining also including the runner-up in the high-roller Event #1, Jennifer Steele.
