Official End-of-Day 1a Chip Counts

A total of 83 players out of the 354 who started Day 1a survived, with David Nicholson inching ahead of Matthew Hankins during the final hands to claim the chip lead to end the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Nicholson	260,400 112,400	112,400
Matthew Hankins	254,200 4,200	4,200
Kyle Cartwright	221,000 195,000	195,000

Jeremiah Fitzpatrick	218,600 218,600	218,600
Claudia Crawford	215,000 57,000	57,000
Jerry Barlow	201,800 110,800	110,800
Michael Cook	161,600 11,600	11,600
Matthew Emmel	160,800 15,800	15,800
Phong Huynh	160,500 160,500	160,500
Greg Jacobson	154,900 15,900	15,900
Gregory Motes	142,400 142,400	142,400
Gary Thill	137,700 137,700	137,700
Norman Mckeldin	131,200 131,200	131,200
Greg Raymer	125,600 26,000	26,000

Ronnie Burr	121,400 121,400	121,400
Alex Moore	113,600 34,400	34,400
Dell Taylor	110,700 110,700	110,700
Keith Gowder	109,500 97,500	97,500
Stanley Langley	109,400 109,400	109,400
Nathan Willis	109,100 109,100	109,100
Dane Cass	108,600 108,600	108,600
Michael Stephens	107,500 107,500	107,500
Michael Warrington	104,500 104,500	104,500
Drennon Rackley	104,300 104,300	104,300
Frank Windsor	103,200 103,200	103,200
Jon Hoellein	98,700 98,700	98,700
Jeremiah Pierce	95,700 95,700	95,700
Wayne Thomas	93,300 93,300	93,300
Austin Apicella	91,800 91,800	91,800
Mark Montero	89,600 89,600	89,600
Jacob Bazeley	89,400 9,400	9,400
Bryan Brock	89,000 89,000	89,000
Kory Kilpatrick	88,700 3,700	3,700

Cary Marshall	88,000 8,000	8,000
John Courtney	81,700 81,700	81,700
Chong Lee	80,800 80,800	80,800
Daniel Weinman	77,400 77,400	77,400

Harold Evans	77,200 77,200	77,200
James Steen	77,100 77,100	77,100
Ian Richardson	72,100 72,100	72,100
Edward Kane	70,300 70,300	70,300
Marshall White	70,300 70,300	70,300
Karthik Ramakrishnan	67,100 67,100	67,100
Larry Gurney	65,900 1,100	1,100
Luther Minor	65,700 65,700	65,700
Alan Neubauer	65,500 44,000	44,000
Steve Galey	65,000 65,000	65,000
Albert Naftel	62,800 62,800	62,800
David Jun	62,100 62,100	62,100
Matthew Woodward	60,600 60,600	60,600
Daniel Blakeman	60,500 60,500	60,500
Mark Waterman	59,300 59,300	59,300
Khanh Vuong	58,000 58,000	58,000
Sean Walton	56,000 56,000	56,000
Brad Johnson	54,800 54,800	54,800
Timothy Kennedy	54,300 54,300	54,300
Jonathan Taylor	53,900 53,900	53,900
Raymond Gollahon	51,900 51,900	51,900
Robert Briggs	51,700 51,700	51,700
Randall Malpass	49,700 49,700	49,700
Steven Gurney-Goldman	48,700 48,700	48,700
Brandon Horton	48,000 48,000	48,000
Navin Enand	46,700 46,700	46,700
Kevin Ellis	44,600 44,600	44,600
Noel Marsh	44,000 44,000	44,000
Tricia Carroll	43,700 43,700	43,700
James Geddes	43,400 43,400	43,400
Brandon Newsome	43,000 43,000	43,000
Tommy Dyer	43,000 43,000	43,000
Elilton Gouveia	43,000 43,000	43,000
John Foster	42,300 42,300	42,300
Richard Robb	42,200 42,200	42,200
Lohrasb Jafari	40,000 40,000	40,000
Douglas Bracken	40,000 40,000	40,000
Robert Myers	34,900 34,900	34,900
David Gabriel	33,700 33,700	33,700
Tripp Kirk	29,600 400	400
Stephanie Alderman	26,000 26,000	26,000
John Giancotti	25,600 2,400	2,400
Andrew Armstrong	23,300 23,300	23,300
Richard Dworsky	21,000 21,000	21,000
Dennis Patterson	20,300 20,300	20,300
Jason Sandling	17,100 17,100	17,100