Besides the ongoing (and very exciting) WSOP Europe Main Event in Cannes, the $50,000+$1k buy-in Majestic Super High Roller with re-buys started yesterday and saw 43 entries throughout the day. The field included notables such as Tom Dwan, Sam Trickett and Daniel Negreanu, who signed up for the tournament as soon as he had been knocked out of the Main Event.
The first day finished after 8 levels of play and only a few failed to survive, including Eugene Katchalov and October Niner Gregory Merson - neither of them made a rebuy. 37 players will return for Day 2 at 4:00 PM (local time) today. The chip leader is no one else than John Juanda, who is no stranger to big buy-in events, and he has about 130k more than his closest competitor, Richard Yong.
Many well-known players will bring healthy stacks to the tables today. Just have a look at the chip counts below:
Below is the offical end-of-day 1 chip counts:
John Juanda 538,000
Richard Yong 408,200
David Benefield 375,100
Mike Watson 370,900
Jean-Noel Thorel 355,000
Tony G 350,000
Tobias Reinkemeier 348,800
Daniel Negreanu 320,200
Erik Seidel 293,800
Paul Newey 291,500
Alex Mostafavi 269,900
Lifeng Chen 239,900
Justin Bonomo 238,600
Kristijonas Andrulis 235,400
Philipp Gruissem 232,400
Thomas Wahlroos 224,200
Roger Hairabedian 218,600
Talal Shakerchi 204,700
Tony Gregg 196,200
Jani Sointula 170,800
Igor Kurganov 169,200
Andrew Lichtenberger 168,400
Steve O'Dwyer 166,600
Juha Helppi 150,000
Sam Trickett 143,300
Fung Cheung 138,000
Isaac Haxton 134,800
Fabian Quoss 131,900
JC Alvarado 124,600
Mike McDonald 124,400
Paul Phua 123,700
Marvin Rettenmaier 112,400
Winfred Yu 108,200
Yi Cheng 95,300
Tom Dwan 84,200
Dan Smith 59,700
Zheng Tang 45,200
