The first day drew 1,300 entrants, with 960 advancing to Day 2 with some household names included.

The 2019 World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino officially kicked off. The first starting day attracted 1,300 runners, with 960 advancing to Day 2.

The current chip leader is Bryan Campanello, who bagged a massive stack of 417,500 after the five two-hour levels played off. Bryan is a bracelet winner, who triumphed in the 2013 $2,500 Razz event. He’s followed by fellow US player, Raymond Travis Rice, who ended the day with 335,000 and Timothy Su, who accumulated 297,300.

The first notable with a big stack is Jared Bleznick, who’s a regular guest in Bobby’s room, specializing in mixed-games. Bleznick will return with 189,100. There are many other notables, who had a successful Day 1A with the likes of Daniel Strelitz (185,300), former Main Event winner Qui Nguyen (180,500), Jeff Lisandro (180,100), high-roller regular Henrick Hecklen (175,200), Faraz Jaka (174,100) or Alex Foxen (173,200).

The former number one ranked online tournament player Niklas "lena900" Åstedt is also above the average with 129,300, just like Igor Kurganov (129,100), Connor Drinan (127,400) or 2003 Main Event champ, Chris Moneymaker (95,000). 

The spiciest bust out of the day features Liv Boeree, who shoved his remaining 2,400 with {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts} and ran into the{k-Spades}{k-Clubs} of Igor Kurganov’s. While this hand is pretty standard in terms of poker strategy, Igor being the boyfriend of Liv made it pretty funny.


Liv fell at the hands of his fiancé

The Q88 flop gave some extra outs for Liv, and she noted with a "Come on" and a smile, while Kurganov’s "Let me do it. I’ll never get the chance ever again," reply summed up pretty accurately what was at stake here.  The {2-Diamonds} turn and the {4-Spades}river were blanks, meaning Liv was $10,000 poorer while a great story richer.

Thanks to the deep structure of the tournament, most of the players have plenty of room to maneuver, but there are some, who’ll need to have a quick start. High-roller regular, Dan Smith has 21,700, while professional angle-shooter, Alec Torelli only has 15,600.

Unlike them, many failed to become this year’s ME winner. Shane Warne, David Williams, Frank Kassela, Bryan Piccioli, Daniel Alaei, Chris Moorman, Brian Altman, Steven van Zadelhoff, and Brandon Adams all busted during the first day. Day 1B will kick off on Thursday at noon local time with five two-hour levels for the starters as well.

End-of-Day 1a Chip Counts

Bryan Campanello 417,500 77,500
Raymond Travis Rice 335,000 45,000
Timothy Su 297,300 9,300
Quentin Roussey 266,400 21,400
Takehiro Kato 259,200 -3,800
Charidimos Demetriou 252,000 252,000
Craig Chait 249,600 -20,400
Stephen Graner 247,100 57,100
Mark Zullo 245,600 245,600
David Lolis 245,100 100
Thomas Roupe 238,800 238,800
Michael Miller 235,800 -10,400
Jonathan Braier 231,500 231,500
Richard Barabino 227,500 132,500
Alexander Yen 225,400 225,400
Yuan Li 218,900 218,900
Nidal Echaust 217,400 217,400
Patrick Serda 216,700 700
Aric Pluskat 210,300 210,300
Paul Miller 210,100 92,100
Juan Ignacio Pallotta 209,000 209,000
Timothy Burt 204,900 4,800
Kane Lai 201,900 68,900
Joe Foresman 196,400 196,400
David Ross 194,700 194,700
Chris Dombrowski 192,600 192,600
David Thomas 191,100 191,100
Jesper Hougaard 190,000 55,000
Benjamin Philipps 189,900 189,900
Jared Bleznick 189,100 123,100
Christopher MacFarland 188,600 188,600
Jimmy Kebe 188,200 200
Michael Marder 185,700 125,700
Daniel Strelitz 185,300 11,300
Pavao Vujnovac 184,800 184,800
Johnnie Moreno 184,000 0
Rory Brown 181,100 -18,900
Timothy McDermott 181,100 181,100
Qui Nguyen 180,500 65,500
Samuel Hughes 180,300 180,300
Jeff Lisandro 180,100 45,100
Sebastian Dornbracht 178,200 178,200
Adria Diaz 177,500 177,500
Robert Chudobiak 177,100 177,100
Henrik Hecklen 175,200 175,200
Anton Morgenstern 174,400 36,400
Faraz Jaka 174,100 57,600
Alex Foxen 173,200 -61,800
Georgios Karakousis 173,000 94,500
Pierre Barthlemy 172,200 172,200
Sara Hall 171,400 25,400
Matthew Ellis 171,100 171,100
David Rees 170,400 170,400
Reed Hensel 169,400 14,400
Daniel Nygard 169,400 169,400
Gregory Fishberg 168,800 168,800
Michael Burch 168,300 168,300
Michael Laufer 167,800 167,800
Ronni Borg 167,100 167,100
William Tonking 167,100 167,100
Mick Heder 167,100 167,100
Kevin Igersheim 167,000 30,000
Dong Guo 166,800 166,800
Andrew Pacifico 166,300 0
Perry Friedman 165,300 0
Ziran Xiao 165,300 165,300
Josh King 165,100 165,100
Martin Kabrhel 164,500 14,500
Philippe Dauteuil 164,100 164,100
Luis Rodriguez Cruz 164,100 164,100
Matthew Doyle 163,700 62,300
Todd Poland 163,400 163,400
Joseph Ardern 163,200 163,200
Lewis Gallo 162,400 162,400
Joey Weissman 161,600 41,600
Paul Mannoni 161,300 161,300
Ryan Berger 161,200 161,200
Dan Owen 161,200 46,200
Didrik Mantor 159,900 159,900
Yee How Lee 158,600 158,600
Marc Macdonnell 158,300 18,000
Jordan Jurow 158,300 158,300
Adam Levy 157,100 87,100
Adam Swan 154,700 13,700
Jason Bullock 154,200 154,200
Jack Sinclair 153,800 45,800
Vitalijs Zavorotnijs 152,400 31,400
Dmitry Yurasov 152,100 152,100
Brian Green 152,100 -4,900
Maxx Coleman 151,900 151,900
Robert Rini 151,300 151,300
Dejan Pustoslemsek 151,200 151,200
Steven Markowitz 151,100 151,100
Michael Stembera 150,800 150,800
Hector Meana 150,300 150,300
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