Day 1b of the PokerListings Championship is in the books with just 19 players of the 126-entry field advancing to Wednesday's Day 2. This brings the total up to 215 entries when considering the 89 entries on Day 1a along with 32 survivors with 13 bagging chips on Day 1a. These figures will continue to grow with what we expect to be the biggest opening flight of them all in tomorrow's final opening flight on Day 1c.
Hugo Menant parlayed his 30,000 opening stack into a whopping pile of 502,000 in chips. This puts him in the clear chip lead with John Forsman bagging the Day 1a lead with 399,000 in chips. Sirin Ongorur also had an amazing day and bagged more than the Day 1a chip leader with a final count of 421,000 in chips with Manual Blaschke (340,000), Wooseung Kim (325,000), and PokerListings's very own Bjorne Lindberg (271,000) rounding out the top five.
Here is a look at the final chip counts of Day 1b of the PokerListings Championship:
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hugo Menant | 503,000 |
| 2 | Sirin Ongorur | 421,000 |
| 3 | Manuel Blaschke | 340,000 |
| 4 | Wooseung Kim | 325,000 |
| 5 | Bjorne Lindberg | 271,000 |
| 6 | Sokraties Papavramidis | 253,000 |
| 7 | Vahur Tima | 234,000 |
| 8 | Glen Gaines | 217,000 |
| 9 | Elor Bratfors | 198,000 |
| 10 | Saviour Spiteri | 174,000 |
| 11 | Nicholas Osthus | 152,000 |
| 12 | Joseph Wilkinson | 134,000 |
| 13 | Stian Nostdahl | 105,000 |
| 14 | Noelia Ivars | 103,000 |
| 15 | Sami Korpela | 95,000 |
| 16 | Paula Ensink | 71,000 |
| 17 | Jan Sundkvist | 70,000 |
| 18 | Jordan Dumas | 59,000 |
| 19 | Lars Eklund | 50,000 |
