September 11, 2024 · 1 minutes to read
The second starting day of the Festival in Malta has concluded and a further 52 players have joined the 15 who progressed from Day 1a. It was a much busier day with 130 entrants, which brings the running total up to 170, with three starting flights left to go.
The chip leader from this flight is Jon Persent from Norway who bagged up 256,000 chips, the largest stack from the first two starting days. The Chip Race podcast presenters both bagged up stacks, although they are well off the pace with Lappin on 64,700 while O’Kearney has just 1k more than the 30,000 starting stack.
Day 1b Survivors Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jon Persent | Norway | 256,000 |
| 2nd | Alfredo Cuti | Italy | 149,500 |
| 3rd | Lauri Nugin | Estonia | 148,900 |
| 4th | Haven Taylor | Canada | 136,800 |
| 5th | David Gee | England | 135,000 |
| 6th | Ronnie Lemmens | Netherlands | 134,300 |
| 7th | Reuven Zohar | Israel | 128,100 |
| 8th | Domenico Gala | Italy | 122,000 |
| 9th | Evanhgelos Aygyis | Greece | 121,900 |
| 10th | Edgar Kenji Ishida | Brazil | 121,100 |
| 11th | Matthew Adams | England | 118,800 |
| 12th | Dorian Swartenbroeck | Belgium | 112,700 |
| 13th | Krystian Nalepka | Poland | 109,000 |
| 14th | Kjell Hernstrom | Sweden | 100,700 |
| 15th | Michal Janczarski | Poland | 99,000 |
| 16th | Eyal Rabinovitch | Israel | 83,400 |
| 17th | Theodoros Mastrogiannis | Greece | 80,500 |
| 18th | Lukasz Sajnok | Poland | 75,600 |
| 19th | Lukas Feirer | Austria | 74,500 |
| 20th | Elias Erdmann | Germany | 73,800 |
| 21st | Shimon Hagay | Israel | 72,500 |
| 22nd | James Neil | England | 70,800 |
| 23rd | Antti Ruotsila | Finland | 70,800 |
| 24th | Michail Tastanis | Greece | 70,700 |
| 25th | Gustav Andersson | Sweden | 69,800 |
| 26th | Svante Flood | Sweden | 69,200 |
| 27th | Liwei Wang | China | 66,800 |
| 28th | Samuele Lo Presti | Italy | 65,600 |
| 29th | David Kilmartin Lappin | Ireland | 64,700 |
| 30th | Uku Valner | Estonia | 63,100 |
| 31st | Andrei Mjagkov | Estonia | 61,200 |
| 32nd | Daniel Henriques | Portugal | 59,600 |
| 33rd | Ivan Volgyi Ferenc | Hungary | 52,900 |
| 34th | Giulio Spampinato | Italy | 50,900 |
| 35th | Mathijs Van Veen | Netherlands | 50,200 |
| 36th | Linus Svensson | Sweden | 50,000 |
| 37th | Halvor Dahlberg | Norway | 49,100 |
| 38th | Daniel Feirer | Austria | 48,700 |
| 39th | Eivo Kruutmann | Estonia | 48,400 |
| 40th | Mikael Hyvarinen | Finland | 45,800 |
| 41st | Per Baevre | Norway | 44,700 |
| 42nd | Zbigniew Wieczorek | Poland | 42,900 |
| 43rd | Klavs Garselis | Latvia | 40,300 |
| 44th | Hermann Schweiger | Germany | 35,500 |
| 45th | Jorge Perez Gomez | Spain | 33,400 |
| 46th | Thomas Taylor | Canada | 32,000 |
| 47th | Dara O'Kearney | Ireland | 31,000 |
| 48th | Peter Ockenden | England | 26,200 |
| 49th | Izabela Olewinska | Poland | 23,300 |
| 50th | Christopher Heidelbacher | Romania | 21,200 |
| 51st | Kristian Karlsson | Sweden | 19,100 |
| 52nd | Erik Dahlgren | Sweden | 14,800 |
