Connor Drinan Leads 78 Advancing From WPT Online Series Main Event Day 1A

Day 1A of the WPT Online Series Main Event on partypoker attracted a total of 521 entries, meaning the tournament is over halfway towards its guarantee of $3,000,000.

Each of the two starting flights of the Main Event play down to 15%, which left 78 players still standing at the end of Day 1A. Leading the way is Connor Drinan. Drinan's best WPT result came in March 2016, when he finished eighth in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event for $102,760.

There are three other players above three million in chips: Tom Kunze, Paul Hong and Andras Nemeth.

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WPT Online Series Main Event Day 1A Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Connor Drinan	Canada	3,847,386
2	Tom Kunze	Austria	3,830,846
3	Paul Hong	New Zealand	3,266,071
4	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	3,025,203
5	Michiel Brummelhuis	Netherlands	2,966,027
6	Andre Abreu	Brazil	2,953,564
7	Erik Lemarquand	Canada	2,941,559
8	Yuan Yuan Li	Canada	2,887,600
9	Thomas Boivin	United Kingdom	2,695,794
10	Timothy Cavallin	Canada	2,662,685

Notable Players Advancing

Michiel Brummelhuis and Joshua McCully will be brimming with confidence ahead of Day 2, after already final-tabling the Mini Main Event earlier in the festival. Brummelhuis bagged $41,984 for his third-place finish, while McCully took home $71,016 after a heads-up deal with eventual winner Fritjof Torstensson.

Other notables through to Day 2 include Daniel Dvoress, Juan Pardo, Ami Barer, Alex Foxen and Stoyan Madanzhiev.

Mega Satellite Winners

There were six players who made it through to Day 2 of the WPT Online Series Main Event having won their seats in a Mega Satellite that guaranteed 50 seats.

They were:

Viacheslav Zaslavskii – 2,284,875
Martin Stausholm – 1,393,471
Benjamin McMenemy – 823,945
Peter Traply – 538,565
Vitalijs Korhs – 438,766
Jasen Hamilton – 194,944

The next Mega Satellite guaranteeing 50 WPT Online Series Main Event seats takes place on Sunday, May 30 at 16:05 (BST). You can win our way in for just $0.01!

partypoker Ambassadors

There were eight partypoker Ambassadors in action on Day 1A, but the only one to punch their ticket to Day 2 was Mikita Badziakouski who sits with just under 600,000 in chips. The likes of Dzmitry Urbanovich, Jamie Staples, Patrick Leonard, Joao Simao, Kristen Bicknell, Isaac Haxton, Jason Koon and Matthew Staples will have to hope Day 1B is kinder to them.

Day 1B of the WPT Online Series Main Event on partypoker takes place on Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 19:05 (BST)

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Connor Drinan	3,847,386	3,847,386
Tom Kunze	3,830,846	3,830,846
Paul Hong	3,266,071	3,266,071
Andras Nemeth	3,025,203	3,025,203
Michiel Brummelhuis	2,966,027	2,966,027
Andre Abreu	2,953,564	2,953,564
Erik Lemarquand	2,941,559	2,941,559
Yuan Yuan Li	2,887,600	2,887,600
Thomas Boivin	2,695,794	2,695,794
Timothy Cavallin	2,662,685	2,662,685
Hristivoje Pavlovic	2,603,280	2,603,280
Felipe Boianovskiy	2,565,964	2,565,964
Veselin Karakitukov	2,527,521	2,527,521
Daniel Dvoress	2,416,388	2,416,388
Viacheslav Zaslavskii	2,284,875	2,284,875
Pedro Garagnani	2,284,338	2,284,338
Juan Pardo	2,070,797	2,070,797
Sergei Denisov	2,006,995	2,006,995
Markus Prinze	1,927,577	1,927,577
Elliot Smith	1,917,957	1,917,957
Donald Abdelhay	1,905,764	1,905,764
Jamie O'Connor	1,757,913	1,757,913
Harry Cattanach	1,746,011	1,746,011
Joao Oliveira	1,737,260	1,737,260
Felipe Salgado	1,658,918	1,658,918
Ami Barer	1,604,020	1,604,020
Alex Foxen	1,513,844	1,513,844
Vassil Vassilev	1,497,353	1,497,353
Kelvin Kerber	1,462,276	1,462,276
Franco Calabrese	1,449,499	1,449,499
Billy Irvine	1,428,823	1,428,823
David Lopez Llacer	1,428,611	1,428,611
Stoyan Madanzhiev	1,401,194	1,401,194
Martin Stausholm	1,393,471	1,393,471
Sam Greenwood	1,392,940	1,392,940
Dennys Ramos	1,239,173	1,239,173
Steve O'Dwyer	1,184,247	1,184,247
Georgi Sandev	1,139,145	1,139,145
Diego Zeiter	1,126,456	1,126,456
Martin Mulsow	1,115,043	1,115,043
Aneris Adomkevicius	1,025,925	1,025,925
Philipp Hofbauer	1,007,949	1,007,949
Christian Rudolph	932,703	932,703
Adam Hendrix	909,739	909,739
Rolandas Galdikas	894,186	894,186
Michael Deinlein	846,200	846,200
Joshua McCully	826,089	826,089
Benjamin McMenemy	823,945	823,945
Rui Bouquet	819,779	819,779
Rodrigo Selouan	784,231	784,231
Gabriel Costa	766,302	766,302
Ivan Sakharov	757,805	757,805
Jakob Miegel	723,426	723,426
Vitalie Marandici	707,897	707,897
Rok Gostisa	690,526	690,526
Patrik Hammar	669,851	669,851
Ravid Garbi	633,079	633,079
Fabian Botusansky	612,548	612,548
Mikita Badziakouski	587,854	587,854
Peter Traply	538,565	538,565
Christopher Putz	525,993	525,993
Stefan Raschbauer	511,116	511,116
Vitalijs Korhs	478,033	478,033
Vahan Toghanyan	438,766	438,766
Nicola Karl	430,640	430,640
Marcelo Farias Da Silva	382,988	382,988
Franco Spitale	376,282	376,282
Howard Leung	369,101	369,101
Manfred Hermann	357,850	357,850
James Foxley	345,712	345,712
Fabio Sperling	294,216	294,216
Johannes Franz	260,443	260,443
Chris Mehes	241,274	241,274
Jasen Hamilton	194,944	194,944
Sergio Aido	187,050	187,050
Thomas Holmer	178,296	178,296
Roman Matveichuk	107,414	107,414
Igor Dursel	96,895	96,895