Welcome to the €1 million guaranteed 2024 WSOP Main Event coverage. While our normal coverage will begin on Friday's Day 2, we will update on some vital facts and figures from each of the six opening flights.
Tuesday's Day 1a attracted 132 entries, with 51 players surviving. Finland's Tom Arovaara catapulted in 50,000 starting stack in 365,500 in 10 blind levels of 40-minutes each to finish the day with the chip lead.
Several players found themselves above 200,000 by the end of the day including Lithuania's Aleksandr Januskevic (273,500), Estonia's Kaspar Kaisel (267,500), Latvia's Rubens Akopjancs (265,500), Sweden's Emil Hovmark (261,500), Event #1: €250 NLH ring winner from Latvia Eriks Krumins (255,500), Estonia's Taago Tamm (231,000), Estonia's Jaanus Kippel (230,500), Canada's Nohad Teliani (218,000), and Norway's Sondre Stormyr (200,000).
Place | Name | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
1 | Tom Arovaara | Finland | 365,500 | 183 |
2 | Aleksandr Januskevic | Lithuania | 273,500 | 137 |
3 | Kaspar Kaisel | Estonia | 267,500 | 134 |
4 | Rubens Akopjancs | Latvia | 265,500 | 133 |
5 | Emil Hovmark | Sweden | 261,500 | 131 |
6 | Eriks Krumins | Latvia | 255,500 | 128 |
7 | Taago Tamm | Estonia | 231,000 | 116 |
8 | Jaanus Kippel | Estonia | 230,500 | 115 |
9 | Nohad Teliani | Canada | 218,000 | 109 |
10 | Sondre Stormyr | Norway | 200,000 | 100 |
11 | Markku Koplimaa | Estonia | 195,500 | 98 |
12 | Ekrem Esker Atush | Finland | 186,500 | 93 |
13 | Vladislav Ogorodnik | Estonia | 179,000 | 90 |
14 | Jan-Mikael Kesanen | Finland | 161,000 | 81 |
15 | Kristjan Maasalu | Estonia | 159,500 | 80 |
16 | Jyri Merivirta | Finland | 154,500 | 77 |
17 | Vilius Zabarauskas | Lithuania | 154,500 | 77 |
18 | Andrius Mazeika | Lithuania | 151,000 | 76 |
19 | Vadim Guk | Estonia | 149,500 | 75 |
20 | Igor Pihela Jr | Estonia | 134,000 | 67 |
21 | Andre Grigorjev | Estonia | 131,000 | 66 |
22 | Aleksei Smirnov | Estonia | 127,000 | 64 |
23 | Joel Haapio | Finland | 126,000 | 63 |
24 | Hol Persson | Sweden | 124,500 | 62 |
25 | Anton Konnov | Estonia | 124,000 | 62 |
26 | Carl Halvarsson | Finland | 108,000 | 54 |
27 | Pavels Kazakovs | Latvia | 106,500 | 53 |
28 | Perttu Lamminpohja | Finland | 101,000 | 51 |
29 | Marijus Dirgela | Lithuania | 99,000 | 50 |
30 | Patrizio Lauria | Italy | 97,500 | 49 |
31 | Espen Sandvik | Norway | 90,000 | 45 |
32 | Tarmo Tammel | Estonia | 89,500 | 45 |
33 | Sten Liivand | Estonia | 88,500 | 44 |
34 | Johan Purbe | Sweden | 87,500 | 44 |
35 | Terje Bremseth | Norway | 87,000 | 44 |
36 | Martin Zobel | Estonia | 84,500 | 42 |
37 | Edgaras Truskauskas | Lithuania | 83,500 | 42 |
38 | Algirdas Sukys | Lithuania | 80,500 | 40 |
39 | Nicklas Dehli | Denmark | 73,500 | 37 |
40 | Kris Tikka | Estonia | 58,500 | 29 |
41 | Alexander Norden | Sweden | 53,000 | 27 |
42 | Heini Puuska | Finland | 52,000 | 26 |
43 | Luka Sorainen | Finland | 52,000 | 26 |
44 | Nadezda Guk | Estonia | 50,500 | 25 |
45 | Ilya Nikiforov | Estonia | 47,000 | 24 |
46 | Ott Urb | Estonia | 42,500 | 21 |
47 | Matias Kesanen | Finland | 38,000 | 19 |
48 | Verneri Hakkinen | Finland | 36,000 | 18 |
49 | Stanislav Smeljov | Estonia | 35,000 | 18 |
50 | Sebastian Wahl | Finland | 34,000 | 17 |
51 | Jako Kuusik | Estonia | 22,000 | 11 |