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Rui Ferreira has been tearing up the online felts in recent times and is in prime position for another huge win after bagging the chip lead on Day 1a of the Powerfest $1,050 Main Event at
Ferreira, who plays at partypoker under a Dutch flag, will head into Day 2 with a 164 big blind stack of 2,298,444 in chips.
Jan Strazisar (2,059,015),
Leon Sturm (1,978,650),
Simon Mattsson (1,862,326),
Mary Pudmoreff (1,639,475),
Salvatore Bertino (1,422,338), and
Joaquim Countinho also virtually bagged at least 100 big blind stacks for Day 2.
Rounding out the top 10 in chip stacks in Day 1a were
Luciano Hollanda (1,299,901),
Tobias Seethaler (1,234,416), and
Martin Mulsow (1,233,414).
Meanwhile, partypoker Ambassador and Twitch streamer
The WCOAP Main Event drew in a crowd of 1,751 players to
partypoker, each paying $109 for the chance to become the tournamentâs champion. This field meant the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool was surpassed by $21,500, which is an incredible result for amateur poker.
Nobody at the final table walked away with less than $2,116 for the initial investment.
Julian Selinger collected this sum when his 6.5 big blind shove with pocket deuces was called by
Shane Pollington in the big blind with ace-ten. An ace on the river busted Selinger in ninth place.
Stephen Prandstatter was the next player to fall. He committed his last six big blinds with ace-king and ultimately lost to Blyeâs pair of twos in the hole that flopped a full house courtesy of the flop falling all sixes.