Yesterday’s starting flight saw two-time bracelet winner Shannon Shorr bag the top stack after 25 players advanced from a 227-entry field after Day 1a and the 36 players who make it through today will join that group on tomorrow, December 30th for Day 2 at 11:00 a.m.
	
		
			| Rank | Player | Main Event Titles | Chip Count | 
		
			| 1 | Shannon Shorr | 0 | 485,000 | 
		
			| 2 | Peter Mavro | 0 | 453,000 | 
		
			| 3 | Nicholas Milgrom | 0 | 418,000 | 
		
			| 4 | Jack Salter | 0 | 383,000 | 
		
			| 5 | Ping Liu | 0 | 359,000 | 
		
			| 6 | David Erquiaga | 0 | 351,000 | 
		
			| 7 | Fiodor Martino | 0 | 324,000 | 
		
			| 8 | Salem Michmali | 0 | 300,000 | 
		
			| 9 | Darren Rabinowitz | 0 | 297,000 | 
		
			| 10 | Ivan Ruban | 0 | 291,000 | 
		
			| 11 | Ky Nguyen | 0 | 265,000 | 
		
			| 12 | Christina Read | 0 | 248,000 | 
		
			| 13 | Eric Baldwin | 2 | 228,000 | 
		
			| 14 | Andrew Rodgers | 0 | 209,000 | 
		
			| 15 | Andrew Hawksby | 0 | 152,000 | 
		
			| 16 | Dipanjan Chattopadhyay | 0 | 138,000 | 
		
			| 17 | Dung Ho | 0 | 129,000 | 
		
			| 18 | Jeff Klimala | 0 | 116,000 | 
		
			| 19 | Travis Tachibana | 0 | 97,000 | 
		
			| 20 | Yang Lu | 0 | 89,000 | 
		
			| 21 | Casey Blakeley | 0 | 88,000 | 
		
			| 22 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | 0 | 72,000 | 
		
			| 23 | Michael Acellano | 0 | 71,000 | 
		
			| 24 | Benjamin Moon | 0 | 63,000 | 
		
			| 25 | James Collopy | 0 | 47,000 |