Only 25 players remained at the end of Wednesday’s two flights as the Top 10% of Flight #5A and Flight #5B advanced into Friday’s Day 2. Here is a look at those 25 players’ chip counts, with Harrison Ashdown leading the way with 335,500 in chips. These 25 players will be joined by the Top 10% of Flight #5C and #5D to make up Friday’s Day 2 at 3pm. Blinds on Day 2 will start at 3000/6000 ante 1000.
| Place | Name | Chip Count |
| 1 | Harrison Ashdown | 335,500 |
| 2 | Joseph Szegedy | 301,000 |
| 3 | Kfir Kabalo | 290,000 |
| 4 | Chao Gong | 286,000 |
| 5 | Antonio Fesi | 253,000 |
| 6 | Sam Goncuoglu | 232,000 |
| 7 | Darren Van | 223,000 |
| 8 | Ernest Padilla | 207,500 |
| 9 | Sean Yu | 166,500 |
| 10 | Ashot Galadzan | 165,000 |
| 11 | Vince Salvatore | 159,000 |
| 12 | Derrick Mokedi | 150,500 |
| 13 | Ramizi Srour | 150,000 |
| 14 | Randall Holland | 123,500 |
| 15 | William Orvis | 122,000 |
| 16 | Yong Kim | 116,000 |
| 17 | Khoren Muradyan | 113,000 |
| 18 | Mark Hamilton | 111,500 |
| 19 | Young Song | 99,000 |
| 20 | Armen Zadoyan | 90,500 |
| 21 | Maria Schwartz | 86,000 |
| 22 | Lap Wong | 85,000 |
| 23 | Seyed Sobhani | 75,000 |
| 24 | Raymond Ho | 71,000 |
| 25 | Eric Wu | 49,000 |