Day 1B Ends with 58 Players; Harrison Ashdown Leads with 466,000

Photo:  Chipleader Harrison Ashdown

Day 1B comes to an end after 11 levels of play, and with 58 players remaining from a flight of 241, the chipleader is Harrison Ashdown with 466,000 (155 big blinds).

The total field is up to 417 entries, and 98 players have advanced from these first two flights.

Three-time WPT champion Eric Afriat finished with a top-10 stack worth 424,000, and both WPT Ambassadors who entered today bagged chips — Brad Owen (316,000) and Andrew Neeme (208,500).

Here is the full list of official chip counts for the Day 1B survivors, who will return on Friday at 11:00 am for Day 2:

1.  Harrison Ashdown  –  466,500
2.  Mitchell Halverson  –  452,500
3.  Wesley Shi  –  449,000
T-4.  Ignacio Moron  –  430,000
T-4.  John Riordan  –  430,000
6.  Christopher Puetz  –  429,000
7.  Eric Afriat  –  424,000
8.  Nichan Khorchidian  –  420,000
9.  Wendy Beckers  –  390,000
10.  Jake Schwartz  –  380,500
11.  Nick Phoenix  –  366,000
12.  Wayne Harmon  –  332,000
13.  Brad Owen  –  316,000
14.  Jeremy Becker  –  275,000
15.  Fabian Bernhauser  –  262,000
16.  Cameron Rezaie  –  259,500
17.  Daniel Lim  –  258,500
18.  Jerry Wong  –  253,500
19.  Fabiano Kovalski  –  251,000
20.  Hossein Ensan  –  241,000
21.  Zachary Tay  –  238,000
22.  Zachary Grech  –  230,500
23.  Andrew Neeme  –  208,500
24.  Daniela Rodriguez  –  206,500
25.  Spencer Champlin  –  205,500
26.  Denys Shafikov  –  193,500
27.  Donovan Dean  –  184,000
28.  Daniel Rezaei  –  173,000
29.  Kyle Frey  –  172,000
30.  Noel Rodriguez  –  170,500
31.  Sean McNutly  –  166,500
32.  Milagros Peterson  –  164,500
33.  Kyle Birdwell  –  163,000
34.  Joe Kuether  –  156,000
T-35.  James Calderaro  –  155,000
T-35.  David Jackson  –  155,000
37.  Andrew Hulme  –  152,500
38.  Antonio Salorio – 144,000
T-39.  Jasvinder Singh  –  113,000
T-39.  Phaly Nou  –  113,000
41.  Hannes Speiser  –  110,500
42.  Angel Ruiz  –  107,500
T-43.  Ralph Wong  –  97,500
T-43.  Valerie Novak  –  97,500
45.  Frank Stepuchin  –  96,000
46.  Ming Xi  –  94,500
47.  Samuel Bekerian  –  88,000
48.  Thong Tran  –  85,000
49.  Harold Evans  –  84,500
50.  Shackar Haran  –  79,500
51.  Nabil Cardoso  –  77,000
52.  Ramesh Puradchithasan  –  69,000
53.  Adrian Naggy  –  68,000
54.  Payan Ataie  –  67,500
55.  Justin Zaki  –  62,000
56.  Jacob Perry  –  54,500
57.  Will Nguyen  –  52,000
58.  Philip Shing  –  43,000

Day 1C begins tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:10 am, and it will be the third and final starting flight on our way to the $4 million guarantee. Return to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of WPT Venetian Las Vegas.

Photo:  WPT Ambassadors Andrew Neeme (left) and Brad Owen were seated side-by-side for most of the day.

Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com