Huge turnout at WPT Cambodia Main Event Day 1B with 216 entries; Mitja Rudolf tops the counts

WPT Cambodiaat NagaWorld Phnom Penh is on course for a massive prize pool with 216 runners (175 uniques, 41 re-entries) turning up at Main Event Day 1B. Combine that with the 188 entries of Day 1A, the highlight event is already at 404 with one more starting day to follow.

Today’s heat kicked off swinging with the US$ 250K guarantee breached in the opening level. At the end of regulation play, only 43 bagged up led by Slovenia’s Mitja Rudolf with 384,000 in chips. This put him in 3rd rank overall. Day 1A leader Jingjing Ke still holds court up top. She racked up a solid 486,000 stack while Didrik Mantor piled up 392,000.

During the late stages of play, big pots were tabled around the floor. One of them was a three way collision with Rudolf shipping it holding top pair on a board {5d to deny and . He dragged in another one with set on a board .

Piling up a close second was WSOP 2019 The Closer event winner,India’s Abhinav Iyer with 367,000. Iyer sent a player out dizzy by cracking the nuts straight with a full house on the river. This enormous pot catapulted Iyer to the leader’s zone.

Among the players that advanced with the leaders was Season XVI WPT APAC Player of the Year, Pete Yen Han Chen. He bagged 164,000.

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The 43 survivors will bench with the 34 Day 1A players before they return to action on Sunday, November 24 at 12pm as they await the next batch of qualifiers from Day 1C.

Day 1B Qualifiers

1 – Mitja Rudolf – 384,000 – Slovenia

2 – Abhinav Nataraj Iyer – 367,000 – India

3 – Apichai Jewampai – 323,000 – Thailand

4 – Julian Andrew Warhurst – 273,000 – Australia

5 – Michael Norman Wood – 239,000 – Usa

6 – Nadav Cohen – 213,000 – Singapore

7 – Jack Benjamin Hardcastle – 211,000 – United Kingdom

8 – Peter George Leworthy – 211,000 – Australia

9 – Jakub Kotas – 207,000 – Czech Republic

10 – Christos Vlahos – 200,000 – Australia

11 – Hoai Linh Tran – 196,000 – Viet Nam

12 – Sean Joseph Keeton – 189,000 – United Kingdom

13 – Gareth William Mccord Chantler – 173,000 – Canada

14 – Yen-Han Chen – 164,000 – Taiwan, Sar

15 – Romit Advani – 161,000 – India

16 – Daniel Teodoro Sinaguglia – 157,000 – Canada

17 – Yong Cheong Foo – 156,000 – Singapore

18 – Derek Ong – 153,000 – Singapore

19 – Si Yang Phua – 139,000 – Singapore

20 – Kue Seong Tchong – 133,000 – Australia

21 – Chenxu Zhang – 131,000 – China

22 – Duy Tung Nguyen – 129,000 – Viet Nam

23 – Hoylt Bricken Corkins – 127,000 – Usa

24 – Sera Ota – 127,000 – Japan

25 – Dongsheng Xia – 124,000 – China

26 – Yuxiao Yu – 124,000 – China

27 – Roger Brennan Bratley – 124,000 – Greece

28 – Phanlert Sukonthachartnant – 122,000 – Thailand

29 – Tong Tan – 122,000 – Singapore

30 – Kelvin John Beattie – 109,000 – Australia

31 – Simon Quintal – 107,000 – Canada

32 – Takao Shimizu – 96,000 – Japan

33 – Jiyoung Kim – 95,000 – Korea, Republic Of

34 – Nick Roscoe Blackburn – 88,000 – Usa

35 – Siwei Yu – 87,000 – China

36 – Christopher James Shebat – 86,000 – Usa

37 – Ihor Yerofieiev – 86,000 – Ukraine

38 – Wei Bing Low – 82,000 – Malaysia

39 – Madhav Gupta – 70,000 – India

40 – Meherzad Viraf Munsaf – 70,000 – India

41 – Nicolas Jean Marie Ragot – 68,000 – France

42 – Lei Zhang – 42,000 – China

43 – Steffen Endres – 27,000 – Germany

Speaking of Day 1C, it takes place on Saturday, November 23 starting at 1pm. This is the last day to enter the Main Event. With the guarantee crushed, this heat will determine how large the final prize pool will be.

Main Event current info:

Current entries: 404

Current Day 2 qualifiers: 77 players

Current chip leader: Jingjing Ke – 486,000

Current chips in play: 12,120,000

Current average stack: 157,402

Up next is Day 1C… Schedule below:

Buy-in: US$ 1,100

Starting stack: 30,000

Opening blinds: 100 – 100 ante 100

Day 1A: 188 entries, 34 remained

Day 1B: 216 entries, 43 remained

Day 1C: Saturday, November 23 @ 1pm

Day 1C plays until the end of Level 15

Registration closes at the start of Level 10

Starting day levels runs 40 minutes each

One re-entry is allowed

Day 2: Sunday, November 24 @12pm

Opening blinds 2000 – 4000 ante 4000

First three levels run 40 minutes each then will increase to 60 minutes.

Day 2 plays until the final 9 players is reached

Final 9 Day: Monday, November 25 @1pm

Blinds increase every 60 minutes until the final two players. Blinds will then drop to 30 minute intervals.

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