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