Day 1a of the World Poker Tour World Online Championships Main Event on partypoker kicked off yesterday with 521 players generating a prize pool of $5,210,000.
80 players advanced to Day 2 including partypoker Ambassadors Philipp Gruissem and Dzmitry Urbanovich.
Leading the way is Slovenia's Blau017e u017derjav who bagged 4.4 million chips, ahead of Dominik Panka (2.8 million), Shaun Deeb (2.7 million) and Antonio Pedro (2.7 million).
WPT WOC Main Event Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts
| 1 | Blau017e u017derjav | Slovenia | 4,400,000 |
| 2 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 2,800,000 |
| 3 | Shaun Deeb | Mexico | 2,700,000 |
| 4 | Antonio Pedro | Netherlands | 2,700,000 |
| 5 | Upeshka De Silva | Mexico | 2,700,000 |
| 6 | Artur Martirosian | Russia | 2,400,000 |
| 7 | Pieter Aerts | Belgium | 2,400,000 |
| 8 | László Molnár | Hungary | 2,100,000 |
| 9 | Vincas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | 2,000,000 |
| 10 | Viktor Kudinov | Russia | 2,000,000 |
WPT Champions through to Day 2 are Dylan Linde (1.