Coverage of the Lex Live 2 Main Event Kicks-Off at 6 p.m.
It's time for Lex Live 2 in the Aspers Casino in London, United Kingdom. The crown jewel on the schedule is the ��230 Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of ��100,000 and three starting flights were already played over the last weekend. There are five more starting flights on the schedule and one of them will kick-off later today at 6 p.m. local time.
The first edition of Lex Live was held in Namur, Belgium, back in March of this year. Since then Lex Veldhuis has been working on the schedule to set up an even better festival than the first one. The main event attracted 1,064 players in Belgium but Veldhuis isn't looking at numbers for this event.
''Worst case scenario we get 400 players. That would be fine. That wouldn't be a reason for me to do it anywhere else next time. It's about the community and I just like we have a main event running at a price point that is affordable for most people.''
The first three starting flights managed to get a total of 218 players and 42 of them made it through to Day 2 on Saturday, October 5th. There are five more flights on the schedule and PokerNews will provide coverage for today's flight, the early fights October 3rd and 4th, and for Day 2 and 3 of the tournament until a winner is crowned in London.
The tournament features 30-minute levels on Day 1 and will go to 40-minute levels from Day 2 onwards. Late registration and reentries are allowed to be made in the first eight levels of the tournament and they will bag up after 14 levels of play today.
The ��750 High Roller that was added to the schedule starts today as well and will play down to a winner. Community members like Ben ''TheBenMartin98'' Martin and Tjenno ''TjennoE'' Eskes will jump in that tournament as well and PokerNews will keep an eye on that tournament as it progresses.