Day 1a is in the books and Stefan Bittger from Germany is in the lead. Those are the official end of day counts:
| Name | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|
| Stefan Bittger | 188,700 | 118 |
| Juan Carlos Vecino Duenas | 179,500 | 112 |
| Vambo Laud | 161,500 | 101 |
| Eric Wasylenko | 156,700 | 98 |
| Igor Pihela | 118,300 | 74 |
| Espen Sandvik | 92,300 | 58 |
| Arkadiusz Liszewski | 90,400 | 57 |
| Tihomir Yanev | 89,800 | 56 |
| Rando Liiber | 71,700 | 45 |
| Marlon Andrey Lopez Martinez | 65,500 | 41 |
| Meelis Ahman | 63,300 | 40 |
| Gints Ozols | 60,900 | 38 |
| Richard Koppel | 56,800 | 36 |
| Aleksandr Gazenfus | 55,700 | 35 |
| Ylva Thorsrud | 55,500 | 35 |
| Jarkko Kuusisto | 48,400 | 30 |
| Juris Hlibovs | 44,500 | 28 |
| Madis Ormisson | 39,600 | 25 |
| Andres Lõiv | 37,100 | 23 |
| Toomas Hunt | 35,800 | 22 |
| Marty Vazov | 23,300 | 15 |
| Dmitri Dudakov | 15,000 | 9 |
