Alexandru Baron Leads After WPT World Online Championships Mini Main Event Day 1A

Just 50 players remain after Day 1A of the WPT World Online Championships Mini Main Event, and it's Canadian Alexandru Baron who sits in the lead.

He is well clear of Matej Kukula and Sami Kelopuro in second and third place, after 336 players jumped into the tournament on Day 1A.

There are three more starting flights for players to enter, in order to grab a slice of the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

WPT World Online Championships Mini Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Alexandru Baron	Canada	4,853,183
2	Matej Kukula	Czech Republic	3,738,104
3	Sami Kelopuro	Finland	3,495,002
4	Tauan Naves	Brazil	2,776,361
5	Faraz Jaka	Brazil	2,631,951
6	Pascal Hartmann	Austria	2,601,269
7	Viacheslav Zaslavskii	Russia	2,589,302
8	Christos Argyriadis	Netherlands	3,541,675
9	Sean Ragozzini	New Zealand	2,430,607
10	Viktor Zsemlye	Austria	2,335,043

Second in chips Kelopuro is known as a high-stakes cash game player, once winning $1.3 million in just eight hours playing Pot-Limit Omaha on partypoker.

Other notables still in the tournament include Sam Greenwood, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Alexandros Kolonias, Simon Mattsson and Joao Vieira.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandru Baron	4,853,183
Matej Kukula	3,738,104
Christos Argyriadis	3,541,675
Sami Kelopuro	3,495,002
Tauan Naves	2,776,361
Faraz Jaka	2,631,951 2,631,951	2,631,951

Pascal Hartmann	2,601,269
Viacheslav Zaslavskii	2,589,302
Sean Ragozzini	2,430,607
Viktor Zsemlye	2,335,043
Sam Greenwood	2,271,946

Jeffrey Reardon	2,211,035
Leonard Maue	2,191,863
Roman Matveichuk	1,964,301
Markus Prinz	1,810,045
Yulian Bogdanov	1,737,984
Nabil Cardoso	1,669,901
Alexandros Theologis	1,623,695

Dan Moran	1,556,419
Manfred Hermann	1,459,755
Felipe Ketzer	1,375,742
Harold Terwagne	1,102,311
Jerry Odeen	1,095,087
Daniel McAulay	1,014,797 1,014,797	1,014,797
Boris Angelov	954,059
Nino Ullmann	944,511
Dzmitry Urbanovich	928,669 928,669	928,669
Bruno Volkmann	851,456
Alexandros Kolonias	799,451
Simon Mattsson	794,045
Alexander van der Swaluw	752,184
Christopher Klodnicki	649,207
Carlos Chadha	623,908
Tim Gerwig	531,755
Joao Vieira	531,597
Ivan Zufic	522,604
Andrej Tekel	517,601
Atanas Pavlov	499,014
Kelvin Kerber	486,766
Enrico Camosci	456,647
Roland Rokita	433,296
Tom Vogelsang	373,825
David Coleman	361,822
Andrii Derzhypilskyi	351,346
Joep Raemaekers	350,001 350,001	350,001
Anton Suarez	335,135
Vojtech Susta	292,367
Robert Bickley	289,940
Henning Andre	279,656
Nicklas Kley-Lundborg	211,760