Kropotov Atop Flight 1A Chip Counts; Eisen Leads 1B

Flight 1A came to a halt in Level 17 (blinds 25,000/50,000/50,000) when Anatoly Korochenskiy was eliminated, leaving just 38 with chips.

End of 1A Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Aleksandr Kropotov	Russia	4,545,000	91
2	Ruslan Zhmak	Russia	4,255,000	85
3	Mitchell Hynam	United Kingdom	4,235,000	85
4	Artem Kotkovskyi	Ukraine	2,720,000	54
5	Yang Zhang	China	2,700,000	54
6	Patrick Brooks	United Kingdom	2,565,000	51
7	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	2,440,000	49
7	Jinlong Hu	China	2,440,000	49
9	Luigi Martins	Brazil	2,435,000	49
10	Alex Boika	Belarus	2,325,000	47
11	Enver Abduraimov	Russia	2,095,000	42
12	Roman Stoika	Russia	1,900,000	38
13	Tian Hao	China	1,840,000	37
14	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	1,675,000	34
15	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	1,670,000	33
16	Nicholas Paul Ralph	United Kingdom	1,495,000	30
17	Chengxu Hu	China	1,450,000	29
18	Dimitrios Kilintaris	Greece	1,435,000	29
19	David Kaufmann	Germany	1,425,000	29
20	Jenya Gavrilovich	Belarus	1,255,000	25
21	Eugene Katchalov	United States	1,245,000	25
22	Juho Suutari	Finland	1,220,000	24
23	Elias Suhonen	Finland	1,140,000	23
24	Yilu Yuan	China	1,045,000	21
25	Felipe Ketzer	Brazil	970,000	19
26	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	925,000	19
27	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	885,000	18
28	Sergei Moiseev	Russia	715,000	14
29	Aleksei Rumiantsev	Russia	600,000	12
30	Virgile Turchi	France	575,000	12
31	Lili Tang	China	495,000	10
32	John Forsman	Sweden	485,000	10
33	Jingyao Yan	China	475,000	10
34	Eduard Bagrov	Armenia	470,000	9
35	Terrance Reid	United States	455,000	9
36	Alexandre Reard	France	425,000	9
37	Xiang Chen	China	365,000	7
38	Jessica Teusl	Austria	315,000	6

Erik Eisen leads Flight 1B with more than 2.3 million. That flight continues with 44 players in Level 14 (blinds 10,000/25,000/25,000) on their way to reach the final 24, who will bag up for Day 2, which begins at noon local time on Saturday, November 7.

Friday will see two more starting flights, 1C and 1D, starting at noon and 6 p.m., respectively. PokerNews highlights will pick up right here at noon.

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