Finland's Max Avela (pictured above) finished on top of the 21 survivors on Day 1b of Event #1: €555 No-Limit Hold'em after transforming his 30,000 opening stack into 184,000 with Martin Lategui (133,350), Eriks Krumins (125,000), Georgios Skarparis (107,000), and Aleksandr Gamonovits (105,000) also finishing advancing with six-figure chip stacks.

Day 1b attracted 48 runners to bring the field up to 101 entries with 49 players thus far finding a bag. Players will have two more opening flights on Friday with late registration still open for the first two levels of Saturday when our live reporting officially begins.

Check out the ending chip counts from Day 1b below:

Player Chips Big Blinds
Max Avela 184,000 123
Martin Lourido 133,500 89
Eriks Krumins 125,000 83
Georgios Skarparis 107,000 71
Aleksandr Gamonovits 105,000 70
Rasmus Lundstroem 93,000 62
Lukasz Fraczek 79,000 53
Robert Relander 71,000 47
Arthur Boatman 63,000 42
Martti Keel 62,000 41
Atte Franssila 55,500 37
Tonis Viik 50,500 34
Glen Gaines 49,500 33
Torbjorn Larsen 49,500 33
Roope Tarmi 45,000 30
Andres Leppik 42,000 28
Nikolay Ponomarev 35,500 24
Azamat Dyussembekov 30,500 20
Tapio Aaltonen 28,500 19
Julius Tiihonen 17,000 11
Mark Metsla 15,000 10