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 
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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.
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.
