Day 1a of the €550 buy-in The Festival Tallinn Main Event is done and dusted after ten exciting levels of play. Some 58 players bought in on the first of four flights, with 22 of those starters bagging up chips at the close of play.
Nobody bagged and tagged more chips than Germany's Stefan Bittger, who turned his 30,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 188,700 over the course of ten levels.
The Festival Tallinn Main Event Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts
| 1 | Stefan Bittger | 188,700 | 118 |
| 2 | Juan Carlos Vecino Duenas | 179,500 | 112 |
| 3 | Vambo Lund | 161,500 | 101 |
| 4 | Eric Wasylenko | 156,700 | 98 |
| 5 | Igor Pihela | 118,300 | 74 |
| 6 | Espen Sandvik | 92,300 | 58 |
| 7 | Arkadiusz Liszewski | 90,400 | 57 |
| 8 | Tihomir Yanev | 89,800 | 56 |
| 9 | Rando Liiber | 71,700 | 45 |
| 10 | Marlon Andrey Lopez Martinez | 65,500 | 41 |
Bittger has more than a dozen live cashes around Europe, totalling a shade over $30,500.