Day 1F: Ken Norman Leads 23 Survivors w/ 611K

There were 452 entries here on Day 1F of the partypoker presents: WPT500 at ARIA Resort & Casino, and Ken Norman (pictured) finishes as the Day 1F chipleader with 611,000. That’s less than overall chipleader Ralph Massey’s 700,000.

Each starting flight advances the final 5% of the field to Day 2 (which begins at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, July 5th). Here are the official chip counts for the final 23 players from Day 1F:

1.  Ken Norman  –  611,000
2.  Navot Golan  –  603,000
3.  Nir Levy  –  567,000
4.  Thai Ha  –  406,000
5.  Matthew Ottogalli  –  404,000
6.  Rolando Wong  –  388,000
7.  Antonio Karman  –  332,000
8.  Richard Saine  –  298,000
9.  Steve Foster  –  290,000
10.  David Fox  –  268,000
11.  Jeffrey Ray  –  264,000
12.  Mike O’Connell  –  259,000
13.  Parviz Nikkhoo  –  252,000
14.  Brian Chike  –  246,000
15.  Richard King  –  233,000
16.  Brian Adragna  –  222,000
17.  Pedro Cabeca  –  205,000
18.  Dylan Wilkerson  –  204,000
19.  Brian Nerney  –  184,000
20.  Chuc Khuu  –  143,000
21.  Eric Landy  –  142,000
22.  Markus Cerny  –  130,000
23.  Dan Dumont  –  130,000

In addition to chipleader Norman, notables who advanced to Day 2 include David Fox and WPT Champions Club member Dylan Wilkerson.

After six starting flights, the total field size is 2,050, with three starting flights remaining. So far, 104 players have advanced to Day 2.

The final 11% of each starting flight finishes in the money. Here are the Money Finishers from Day 1F who didn’t advance to Day 2:

24th:  Louise Francoeur  –  $1,200
25th:  Nesrin Can  –  $1,200
26th:  Cosimo Farinola  –  $1,200
27th:  Eldad Bentov  –  $1,200
28th:  Hunter Cichy  –  $1,200
29th:  Gregory Tucker  –  $1,200
30th:  Ryan Grant  –  $1,200
31st:  Cliff Fisher  –  $1,200
32nd:  Brian Cospolich  –  $1,200
33rd:  Donna Stewart  –  $1,200
34th:  Ricky Crandell  –  $1,200
35th:  Giovanni Zanette  –  $1,200
36th:  Michael Swafford  –  $1,200
37th:  Ong Yang  –  $1,200
38th:  Dylan Collingwood  –  $950
39th:  Andrew Connor  –  $950
40th:  Anup Palod  –  $950
41st:  Gordon Eng  –  $950
42nd:  Shiva Kapavarapu  –  $950
43rd:  Jason Thalas  –  $950
44th:  Andrew Bulliard  –  $950
45th:  Artur Rudziankov  –  $950
46th:  Andrew Pressler  –  $950
47th:  Jeffrey Breslaw  –  $950
48th:  Milan Simko  –  $950
49th:  Irina Petrova  –  $950
50th:  Scott Turnbaugh  –  $950

Action ended with 11:36 remaining in Level 21, with blinds at 6,000-12,000 and a 2,000 ante. Day 2 will begin with the blinds rolled back to wherever they were for the flight that finished the quickest.

Notables that played today but didn’t reach the money include Ankush Mandavia, Chris Baud, Corey Hochman, Eric Froehlich, Kathy Liebert, Katie Lindsay, Maria Ho, Sasha Barrese, Ronit D’Angelo, Ty Reiman, Jason Les, and WPT Champions Club member Alexander Lakhov. Also in today’s field were WPT Anchor Lynn Gilmartin, and defending WPT500 @ ARIA champion Craig Varnell.

Day 1G begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 10:00 am, and even players who cashed and/or advanced to Day 2 can re-enter (best stack forward). Late registration remains open until the beginning of Level 9, around 2:30 pm, with unlimited re-entries.

Return to WPT.com for continuing coverage of all the action as players battle for a piece of this guaranteed prizepool worth at least $1 million.