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WPT Prime Cambodia: Kunal Patni Leads Main Event Day 1A Survivors

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Cambodia 2022 continues its run with players from all over the world flocking the live felts. Currently, it’s the WPT Prime Cambodia 2022 $1,100 Main Event that is drawing in players. The event concluded its first starting flight Day 1A and it was none other than Adda52 Game Ambassador Kunal Patni that emerged as the chip leader!

The day was bustling with high-octane poker action as a total of 265 entries participated on Day 1A. This comprises 213 unique players and 51 re-entries. Hosted at the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, the Main Event is well on its way to crush the $500,000 guarantee by a big margin. There are still two more starting flights (Day 1B and Day 1C) left to complete. From the 265 entries, the final 33 players survived to Day 2.

Kunal Patni Leads The Pack

Banker turned poker pro was sitting atop the lot with a big stack of 708,000 chips. At the start of the day, Patni began with 30,000 chips like every player and turned that stack 13 times its value by the end. All thanks to his amazing run on the felts.

Mid-way through the tournament, Patni scored two double ups back-to-back. A big showdown against Hassaan Arif further increased his stack size. Even when approaching the end of the day, Patni continued to be in good form as he doubled up again through then chip lead Mingjun Kim after the Indian pro’s pocket kings defeated Kim’s pocket eights.

With a stack of 655,500 chips Kim sits on the second spot on the Day 1A leaderboard. Only two other players crossed the half a million-chip mark. They are South African players Rayhaan Cook (571,000) and Brent Cook (550,500).

Patni took to Instagram to announce his progress on the Main Event, saying, “Bagged the chip lead in Day 1A of the main event!! Let the good run continue…”

The Adda52 Game Ambassador recently shipped the WPT $300 Deepstack NLH and has made it to a total of three final tables in the series. He was also recently leading the Player of the Series leaderboard and is now at the number two spot.

Along with Patni, we also have Indian players like Rajashekhar Puttamsetty (430,000), Pradeep Nudurumati (282,500), FTS 3.0 Main Event winner Ankit Wadhawan (141,000), and Anil Adiani (27,500) among the 33 survivors. Other notable players to make it were World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 Poker Player of the Year Robert Campbell (415,500), Christopher Mateo (410,500), Denmark player Frederik De Linde Farrington (252,500), and more.

Final Chip Counts Day 1A

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Kunal Patni	India	708000
2	Minjung Kim	South Korea	655500
3	Rayhaan Adam	South Africa	571000
4	Brent Cook	Thailand	550500
5	Kyungtae Lee	South Korea	469500
6	Raja Puttamsetty	India	430000
7	Robert Campbell	Australia	415500
8	Christopher Mateo	Philippines	410500
9	Van Hoang Nguyen	Vietnam	324500
10	Pradeep Nudurumati	India	282500
11	Omair Javed	Pakistan	271000
12	Florent Remi	France	267000
13	Frederik De Linde Farrington	Denmark	252500
14	Seokjin Hwang	South Korea	248500
15	Anton Widjaya	Indonesia	246000
16	Vijaykumar Chainani	Singapore	230000
17	Hwamin Lee	South Korea	193000
18	Patrick Soh	Malaysia	192000
19	Gavin Best	Australia	180500
20	Muneyuki Tanimura	Japan	170000
21	Ankit Wadhawan	India	141000
22	Yong Zhang	China	111000
23	Kuniyoshi Imazu	Japan	91500
24	Hassaan Arif	Dominican Republic	83000
25	Chyuan Seng Wee	Malaysia	83000
26	Marcelo Bregoli	Italy	60500
27	Wanki Baik	South Korea	55500
28	Mustafa Arbab	Pakistan	52500
29	Bekzhan Rasulov	Kyrgyzstan	48500
30	Hiroki Morishita	Japan	45000
31	Anna Lee	South Korea	28500
32	Anil Adiani	India	27500
33	Chek Chen Chong	Malaysia	24000

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Photo Credit: World Poker Tour

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