2023 WSOP: Pakinai Lisawad, Lester Edoc, Weiran Pu, Vincent Li among top ten of Main Event Day 1C

 

The largest crowd yet at the 54th Annual World Series of Poker $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship aka WSOP Main Event with Day 1C filling up two huge ballrooms of the Horseshoe Casino Las Vegas and a large portion of Paris Las Vegas

As always, delivering the opening words was WSOP Vice President, Jack Effel, who introduced the 2022 champion Espen Jorstad for a short speech and the customary call.

“A lot of people have been asking me what is my main tip for the Main Event, and to me it is just patience. The structure of this tournament is so good, there’s so much room for play. Last year, I bagged 30% of starting stack after Day 1, I bagged 17,000, and then spun it up on Day 2. So don’t give up. Have patience. Take your time. Good luck to everyone! Shuffle up and deal!”

With that Day 1C got underway. By the end of the scheduled five two-hour levels, over 3,000 players had signed up, the largest Day 1C in history, and roughly 700 were dusted. Topping the counts was bracelet holder Christopher Brammer while the highest ranking player from Asia was China’s Quan Qiu in 12th with a stack of 293 bb.

Not too far behind were Thailand’s Pakinai Lisawad, Filipino Lester Edoc, and recently minted Chinese player Weiran Pu. Edoc is one of 12 players that advanced who availed of the Somuchpoker Survivor promo.

Further down the rung were Malaysian high rollers Wai Kiat Lee and Chin Wei Lim with 179 bb and 101 bb, Manila Super Series Main Event champion William Ysmael with 178 bb, and bracelet holders Nikita Luther (119 bb), Jinho Hong (86 bb), Sung Joo Hyun (36 bb), and Danny Tang (15 bb).

Unlike the past two starting days where the Chinese dominated the Day 2 qualifiers, this flight was ruled by Japan with 32 players making the cut. Yuya Kita topped the pack with 191 bb. Other notables were Masato Yokasawa (126 bb) and Tamon Nakamura (66 bb).

Here’s the number of Asia qualifiers from Day 1C:

Japan – 32 players
China – 27 players
Korea – 12 players
India – 10 players
Hong Kong – 8 players
Philippines – 7 players
Taiwan – 4 players
Macao – 3 players
Malaysia -3 players
Singapore – 3 players
Thailand – 3 players
Vietnam – 3 players

Top 10 from Asia – end of Day 1C

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Quan Qui	Chinese	234,000	293
2	Pakinai Lisawad	Thailand	219,800	275
3	Lester Edoc	Philippines	218,300	273
4	Xiaohu Liu	China	163,600	205
5	Weiran Pu	China	159,700	200
6	Qiaonan Liu	China	157,200	197
7	Ankit Wadhawan	India	157,000	196
8	Anil Adani	India	154,700	193
9	Yuya Kita	Japan	152,700	191
10	Vincent Li	Hong Kong	151,000	189

Day 2 chip counts from Asia and Pacific

[Update] Somuchpoker Survivor promo into Day 2 (end of Day 1C)

Lester Edoc	218,300
Vincent Li	151,000
Loic Muller	148,900
Abhishek Paul	146,700
William Ysmael	142,600
Cezar Quiambao	120,900
Anton Lu	101,600
Kyle Magbanua	101,100
Trent Fechter	93,300
Aroha Ngata	59,400
William Wong	54,600
Feng Ji	52,500
Katsuhito Kawai	21,900

Somuchpoker Survivor Promo