Paul Lee Leads the Nine Survivors from Day 1P (Turbo)

Day 1P (Turbo) comes to an end with Paul Lee (pictured) as the chipleader with 830,000 in chips after the 189-player field was reduced to the final nine.

Here are the official chip counts for the nine players who survived Day 1P, followed by the 15 players who finished in the money today:

1. Paul Lee – 830,000
2. Meir Itaev – 791,000
3. Rubin Chappell – 697,000
4. Aaron Messmer – 450,000
5. Alexandre Novaes – 361,000
6. Levon Khachatryan – 262,000
7. Longsheng Tan – 192,000
8. Lang Lee – 136,000
9. Felix Sin – 64,000

10th: Matt Salsberg – $1,200
11th: Armen Poghosyan – $1,200
12th: Jacob Kim – $1,200
13th: Lam Dang Nguyen – $1,200
14th: Michael Ung – $1,200
15th: Mario Martinez – $1,200
16th: Hieu Ma – $1,200
17th: Thomas Sipes – $900
18th: Owen Crowe – $900
19th: Ardavan Yazdi – $900
20th: Artashes Kartalyan – $900
21st: Derrick Mokedi – $900
22nd: Gonzalo Merida – $900
23rd: Matthew Triplett – $900
24th: Ethan Shim – $900

Day 1P ended with 8:13 remaining in Level 23, with blinds at 10,000-20,000 and a big-blind ante of 20,000.

When Day 2 begins on Sunday August 26 at 1 p.m. (PDT), the blinds will roll back to the earliest finish of all the starting flights; which is 20:38 in Level 19 with blinds at 4,000-8,000 and a big-blind ante of 8,000.

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