button in SafariDay 1a Chip Counts
Day 1a of the $580 Mirror Mystery Bounty attracted 143 entries, with the field playing down to just 17 survivors, all of whom bagged a stack and locked up a Day 2 seat after reaching the money.
Robert Bernstein finished atop the chip counts with 1,110,000, narrowly ahead of Kaifan Wang (1,022,000). David Lu (691,000) and Nicholas Falcone (618,000), who burst the stone bubble with a double elimination, also closed out the flight among the leaders.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Bernstein | United States | 1,110,000 |
| 2 | Kaifan Wang | United States | 1,022,000 |
| 3 | David Lu | United States | 691,000 |
| 4 | Nicholas Falcone | United States | 618,000 |
| 5 | John Merriam | United States | 521,000 |
| 6 | Alan Nosouchuk | United States | 448,000 |
| 7 | Jaret Tambling | United States | 430,000 |
| 8 | Christopher Shum | United States | 421,000 |
| 9 | John Fields | United States | 368,000 |
| 10 | Namit Patel | United States | 356,000 |
| 11 | Jean Paul Norero | United States | 343,000 |
| 12 | Thomas Puccio | United States | 341,000 |
| 13 | Amir Zaken | United States | 192,000 |
| 14 | Norman Joven | United States | 184,000 |
| 15 | Maria Pierro | United States | 82,000 |
| 16 | Arnaldo Gordon | United States | 46,000 |
| 17 | Alex Rocha | United States | 31,000 |