Event #20: $3,200 Main Event, $3m GTD Dia 1a | 2021 WPT Online Series by partypoker

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