Day 1b attracted another 25 entries, bringing the total to 157 when considering the 132 entries on Day 1a. Just nine players survived for 60 survivors in total, with 51 players also bagging up on Day 1a, after ten blind levels of 40 minutes each, led by Estonia's Evgeny Vyal, with 276,500.
This places Vyal just behind Day 1a chip leader Tom Arovaara from Finland, who will start Day 2 on Friday with 365,500.
Check out the chip counts from the Day 1b survivors below:
Place | Name | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
1 | Evgeny Vyal | Estonia | 276,500 | 138 |
2 | Marko Keskel | Estonia | 189,000 | 95 |
3 | Timmy Anker | Denmark | 177,000 | 89 |
4 | Mykola Kostyrko | Ukraine | 160,000 | 80 |
5 | Alberto Gonzalez | Spain | 156,500 | 78 |
6 | Paul Koppe | Estonia | 91,500 | 46 |
7 | Francisco Racionero | Spain | 85,500 | 43 |
8 | Tommi Lankinen | Finland | 71,000 | 36 |
9 | Oliver Gamble | Denmark | 44,000 | 22 |