WPT-N Philippines Main Event Ends Day 1A w/ 36 Remaining
Jan 4, 2016
Photo: Defending champion Tetsuya Tsuchikawa survived Day 1A with 17,100 in chips (17 big blinds).
Day 1A of the WPT-N Philippines main event was overshadowed by the final day of the Triton Super High Roller Series Cali Cup, which was battling over a total prizepool worth more than $10 million.
But the $1,650 buy-in event attracted 92 entries for that first flight, and 36 of them survived the day with an average chip stack around 63,900 (64 big blinds). Here is the full list of Day 1A survivors:
1. Jiabin Cui – 188,800
2. Michael Tse Hua – 175,500
3. Yuen Wai Loong – 127,100
4. Daniel Engels – 114,200
5. Jeon Seung Soo – 101,400
6. Xi Xiang Luo – 100,400
7. Yuefeng Pan – 93,800
8. Ahn Seong Hwan – 82,000
9. Yeow Chung Chong – 81,000
10 . Ken Buck – 78,900
11. Markus Garberg – 75,100
12. Elan Zak – 73,300
13. Don Carmona – 72,800
14. Ying Lin Chua – 72,700
15. Vladimir Geshkenbein – 71,400
16. Nozaki Koichi – 65,300
17. Jae-Kyung Sim – 64,400
18. Jason Lo – 62,100
19. Ching-Wei Chen – 59,900
20. Zhi Feng Yao – 56,900
21. Sungmin Jo – 56,400
22. Yen Han Chen – 50,400
23. SJ Kim – 44,700
24. Raiden Kan – 43,200
25. Thomas Goh – 42,800
26. Raymond Wu – 40,200
27. Henrik Tollefsen – 39,600
28. Unknown – 25,200
29. John Niko Costiniano – 21,900
30. Soh Chee Wee – 21,900
31. Andrew Gaw – 21,300
32. Li-han Chen – 21,200
33. Tetsuya Tsuchikawa – 17,100
34. Romeo Catayas – 15,200
35. Heng Lien – 15,100
36. Takuya Yamashita – 12,000
Two of the Day 1A survivors are particularly notable — Tetsuya Tsuchikawa won this event last year to earn $153,901, while chipleader Jiabin Cui won last month’s WPT National Korea in Jeju, South Korea, to earn $70,883.
Day 1B begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1:00 pm local time (12:00 midnight ET / 9:00 pm PT). This is a re-entry event, and players are allowed one entry and one re-entry per starting day, for a maximum of four entries.
Now that the high-roller event has crowned a winner (Fedor Holz), all of our attention turns to the WPT-N Philippines main event. We’ll have updates throughout the day here at WPT.com.
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