We wanted to take a walk through the tournament floor and grab a few updated chip counts for you guys from the first flight of the day. We are down to 71 players, and the blinds are currently at 400-800. Right now, leading the list of notables, and possibly the entire tournament, is Lynda Tran, who is up to 140,000 early on. Edmund Liu, who final tabled the final event of the Fall Poker Classic, is setting himself up for another deep run with a big stack of 110,000. Check below for a few more notable updates, and come back tomorrow to find out if any of these players are able to wade through the field and punch their Day 2 tickets!
Lynda Tran- 140,000
Edmund Liu- 110,000
Peter Hengsakul- 95,000
Dana Kellstrom- 46,500
Phong “Turbo” Nguyen- 42,000
Massoud “Mike” Eskandari- 29,000
Alan Myerson- 25,500
Mark Jun- 16,000
Shahen Martirosian- 12,000