Kolev Claims Day 1g Chip Lead of the WPT500 Knockout
Serhii Biletskyi and Stoyan Obreshkov both busted in the final hand of the night for the 121 remaining players to make it through to Day 2 of the WPT500 Knockout.
The 810 entries on Day 1g added to the prize pool for the tournament to surpass the initial $1,000,000 guarantee as $1,081,000 has been collected already with a turbo flight to take place on Monday, March 22, at 5:05 p.m. GMT.
Bulgaria's Boris Kolev claimed the Day 1g chip lead with over 10 million in chips. He is followed in the counts by Damien Wain, Conor Beresford, Alfred Karlsson, and Dimitrios Sfakianakis in the top five.
partypoker Ambassadors Kristen Bicknell and Joao Simao both made it through too.
Kolev's chip lead tonight also hands him the overall chip lead for Day 2, placing him ahead of Diego Ventura, Aleksandr Shepel, André Marques, and Wain if you look at the top five of the counts.
Day 2 has 324 survivors right now with more to join them once the turbo edition of the starting flight has finished. The first levels of the day will last 16 minutes and increase to 24 minutes after the first 24 levels. The first level of the day will feature a small blind of 35,000, a big blind of 70,000, and a running ante of 8,750.
Play will continue until the final table has been reached and play will resume on Tuesday, March 23 at 8:05 p.m. GMT. This will also signal the start of the partypoker Twitch Streams as they will provide cards-up coverage from the start until the champion can be crowned.
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