Lulei Hu Takes Overall Chip Lead in Day 1d as 111 Qualify for Day 2

A total of 20 players successfully drank at the last chance saloon in Day 1d, and Lulei Hu of Italy (967,000) had a storming performance, taking the overall chip lead despite the flight containing the smallest numbers.

Hu has almost $1.6 million in recorded earnings, and is in good form, fresh off a final table at the PokerStars Open in Namur, Belgium last week.

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count	Blinds
1	Lulei Hu	Italy	967,000	121
2	Alexandros Tasoulis	Greece	639,000	79
3	Vangelis Lazaridis	Greece	485,000	61
4	Thodoros Asmanidis	Greece	451,000	56
5	Roberto Palmieri	Italy	423,000	53
6	Giannis Topalidis	Greece	407,000	51
7	Nikos Kavazidis	Greece	357,000	45
8	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	350,000	44
9	Fabian Bartuschk	Germany	324,000	40
10	Panagiotis Arkeles	Greece	258,000	32
11	Valeri Savov	Bulgaria	250,000	31
12	Polyvios Klimathianakis	Greece	219,000	27
13	Cesare Raso	Italy	219,000	27
14	I.A.	Greece	201,000	25
15	Ioannis Georgopoulos	Greece	194,000	24
16	Leonidas Georgopoulos	Greece	170,000	21
17	Ilias Zografos	Greece	149,000	19
18	Borislav Yosifov	Bulgaria	136,000	17
19	Vangelis Tsairis	Greece	129,000	16
20	Aris Kotanidis	Greece	88,000	11