So far, just 43 players have punched their ticket into Day 2, and another group of 65 hopefuls will look to add their names to that list tonight.
The surviving players from the three starting flights will then return for Day 2 at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 22nd, and will play until a winner is crowned.
| Rank |
Player |
Chip Count |
| 1 |
Zhargal Tysdypov |
1,006,000 |
| 2 |
Tyler Schmidt |
549,000 |
| 3 |
Eric Seeliger |
507,000 |
| 4 |
Christie Yau |
487,000 |
| 5 |
Xay Xiong |
479,000 |
| 6 |
Kou Vang |
477,000 |
| 7 |
Tanner Pray |
463,000 |
| 8 |
Marcin Michalski |
452,000 |
| 9 |
Jason Hoffman |
446,000 |
| 10 |
Matthew Porter |
391,000 |
| 11 |
Jamie Payne |
378,000 |
| 12 |
Stephen Ma |
355,000 |
| 13 |
Eric Woodward |
338,000 |
| 14 |
Timothy Gundrum |
331,000 |
| 15 |
Ati Khatri |
322,000 |
| 16 |
Steven Downey |
304,000 |
| 17 |
Alex Watts |
290,000 |
| 18 |
Robert Mitchell |
278,000 |
| 19 |
Chueyee Yang |
267,000 |
| 20 |
Jeff Kenny |
264,000 |
| 21 |
Kirby Rogers |
247,000 |
| 22 |
Greg Sessler |
246,000 |
| 23 |
Waiken Soo |
243,000 |
| 24 |
Jeffrey Copeland |
233,000 |
| 25 |
Kelly Mahana |
219,000 |
| 26 |
Daniel Bekavac |
217,000 |
| 27 |
Charlie Reichard |
210,000 |
| 28 |
Richard Yau |
176,000 |
| 29 |
Nicholas Rogers |
164,000 |
| 30 |
Barry Komlhoff |
158,000 |
| 31 |
Anthony McCoy |
154,000 |
| 32 |
Eric Smidinger |
148,000 |
| 33 |
Joseph Capesias |
137,000 |
| 34 |
Jorge Galarza |
102,000 |
| 35 |
Imran Sajwani |
97,000 |
| 36 |
DJ Buckley |
93,000 |
| 37 |
Jacob Long |
88,000 |
| 38 |
Daniel Johnson |
87,000 |
| 39 |
Li Shen |
86,000 |
| 40 |
William Henricks |
69,000 |
| 41 |
Mike Scheferman |
40,000 |
| 42 |
Menum Lor |
39,000 |
| 43 |
Jason Rice |
33,000 |