Flight 1 on the ground

Updated: Chip leader added. Full chipcounts coming soon.

So, I'm sitting here and somebody asked if I ate.

"Yeah, I had a sandwich."

Wait, that was lunch. A long time ago.

Finally, though, they've finished up the first day of the main event.

I know everybody wants chip counts and I'm doing my best. As often as the chip stacks shift hands, an hour by hour update is impractical at this level. Once we thin out the field, we'll be more regular in our updates. Until then, please be patient.

I'm going to get to work on some stories and such in a bit. For now, I've have some estimated, unofficial chip counts for the first flight. We don't have counts in for everybody. They're verifying the count and that could take hours.

For now, here are your unofficial Top 15 leaders after the first flight.
Estimates based on my count...likely to change once the official count is in

• John Smith $63,000
• Nicholas M. $43, 300
• Seung Yoo (New Jersey) $41,000
• Dan Alspach--broomcorn (LaHoya, CA) $40,900
• Peter Feldman (?) $40,000
• Greg Raymer (Mystic, CN) $36,000
• Mike Linhardt (?) $35,000
• Alex R. $35,000
• Robert (Hollywood, FL) $33,900
• Chris Moneymaker (Tennessee) $32,000
• Josh--sdouble (He's one of the leaders, but I don't have an exact amount for him)
• David Bach (Athens, GA) $31,000
• Maurice H. $30,000
• Andreas H. $28,200
• David Williams (Dallas, TX) $28,000
• Jeff Hubberman $25,000

There are still more than 100 people remaining in the first flight. For those people interested in big names: Lindgren, Liebert, Moneymaker, Raymer, Williams, Juanda, and Tomko are all still in. Mortensen and McEvoy have busted out for sure. I haven't seen Mercier in quite a while and she'd been running on a shortstack all day. I suspect she's gone, but I'll check.

More in a bit.