Ryan Riess Bags Big After GGPoker WSOP Online Main Event Day 1a

August 30, 2022

The first flight of the Event #33: $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event on GGPoker attracted a field of 437 players with just 61 players advancing to Day 2 on September 26.

A whole host of familiar names made it through — read on to find out who — but those who were unlucky enough to crash out still have seven more starting flights to try and lock up a seat in Day 2.

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Event #33: $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts

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Only three players bagged over a million chips, with WSOP Circuit ring winner David Yan sandwiched between Canada's 'Lexandru' and Day 1a chip leader 'Sheogorath'.

However, the stand-out name will be former WSOP Main Event champion Ryan Riess who bagged tenth in chips with 645,512 from his starting stack of 60,000 chips. Earlier this year, Riess narrowly missed out on a second WSOP bracelet after finishing runner-up in Event #71: $1,111 One More for One Drop.

Riess 'The Beast' famously won the 2013 WSOP Main Event for $8,361,570 and finished fourth in the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event five years later. He will surely be looking to make a deep run in the WSOP Online Main Event when play resumes on September 26.

WSOP Main Event Champions 2012-14: Merson, Riess, Jacobson

Other notables through to Day 2 include bracelet-winners Yuri Dzivielevski (513,351) and Mikita Badziakouski (475,205).

Dzivielevski picked up his first bracelet in June 2019, and won a second during the 2020 WSOP Online in Event #42: $400 PLOSSUS.

Earlier this year he narrowly missed out on a second after losing heads-up to Dan Cates in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.

Meanwhile, Badziakouski is on a tear in 2022 winning High Roller events in Cyprus, Barcelona and Madrid in the space of four months. Will he be able to continue his strong performance on the online felt?

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Notable players who missed out on a spot in Day 2 included Michael Addamo, Sergio Aido, Wiktor Malinowski, Anatoly Filatov, Andras Nemeth, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Remaining WSOP Online Main Event Flights

Flights for the potentially record-breaking WSOP Online Main Event continue every Sunday until September 18. Flights then take place every two days until the final starting flight on September 25.

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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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