Kahle Burns leads Day 1B of the WSOPE Main Event

Behind the Australian pro was Martin Winkler with 461,300 chips and the 3^rd in the list was Robert Skopalik with 381,600 chips lifting their heavy bags to the next day. Other notable bracelet winners in the tournament were Rifat Palevic (293,400), Jan-Peter Jachtmann (288,000), Jeff Madsen (262,600), Joao Vieira (240,000), Daniel Negreanu (167,600) and the recent Event #4: Super High Roller champion James Chen (39,800).

Many familiar faces who gave a shot in the Main Event were 10-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey, 2019 WSOPE Event #1 Opener winner  Renat Bohdanov, Event #10 Mixed Game Championship winner Besim Hot, and 2 Indian countrymates Nitin Jain and Tarun Goyal who were not fortunate to make through it.

Day 1B top 10 chip counts

1. Kahle Burns – 497,700
2. Martin Winkler – 461,300
3. Robert Skopalik – 381,600
4. Mykola Kostyrko – 375,000
5. Fernando Habegger – 344,400
6. Tobias Anttila – 318,900
7. Siarhei Narozhny – 309,000
8. Michael Duerk   – 308,600
9. Michael O’Grady – 302,400
10. Rifat Palevic – 293,400

The entire tournament saw 446 entries but only 279 will resume their journey today (27 October) at 12 noon local time to battle it out. For latest updates on poker news and tournaments around the world keep reading GutshotMagazine.com and stay tuned!

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