Day 1A Ends with 40 Players; Anton Wigg Leads with 751,000
Jul 12, 2022
Photo: Chipleader Anton Wigg
Day 1A comes to an end after 11 levels of play, and with 40 players remaining, the chipleader is Anton Wigg with 751,000 (250 big blinds).
Mark Davis, who currently leads the WPT Player of the Year race after winning the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, finished seventh in chips with 321,000 (107 big blinds).
Here is the full list of official chip counts for the Day 1A survivors, who will return on Friday at 11:00 am for Day 2:
1. Anton Wigg – 751,000
2. Michael Brinkenhoff – 546,000
3. Ljubomir Josipovic – 486,500
4. Yiannis Liperis – 472,000
5. Ole Schemion – 392,000
6. Evgenii Fidchuk – 341,500
7. Mark Davis – 321,000
8. Jeff Esterling – 317,500
9. Victoria Livschitz – 310,500
10. Chad Eveslage – 271,000
11. Paul Newey – 270,000
12. Leon Sturm – 268,500
13. Peter Neff – 256,000
14. Timo Kamphues – 254,500
15. Elio Fox – 236,000
16. Darren Elias – 233,000
17. Roman Hrabec – 224,000
18. Sung Joo Hyun – 223,500
19. Anthony Hu – 199,000
20. Brian Altman – 184,500
21. Craig Mason – 184,000
22. Zachary McDiarmid – 184,000
23. Deividas Daubaris – 171,500
24. Bob Cote – 170,000
25. Raj Ramakrishnan – 168,000
26. Yifu He – 155,500
27. David Gonzalez – 152,000
28. Kitty Kuo – 124,000
29. Vojtech Ruzicka – 115,000
30. Jan Bednar – 115,000
31. Fawaz Siddiqui – 105,500
32. Zachary Smiley – 103,000
33. Maria Konnikova – 91,500
34. Stefan Schillhabel – 90,500
35. Rintaro Kagawa – 89,000
36. Shigeji Kusakabe – 82,000
37. Igor Yaroshevskyy – 48,500
38. Michael Gathy – 40,500
39. Alex Goulder – 24,500
40. Ema Zajmovic – 21,000
Day 1B will be the second of three starting flights, and it begins tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:10 am PDT. Return to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of WPT Venetian Las Vegas.
Photo: WPT Player of the Year Points Leader Mark Davis
Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com
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