At the end of day 1 November Nine member Steven Begleiter leads the way with a whopping 235,275, almost 8 times the 30k starting stack. The top nine chip counts after day 1 are all over 100k, but 2nd place Alex Golshanara is a full 100k behind Begleiter with 135k.

Here are the end of day counts from many of the P5ers in the field, spelling errors in the casino’s chip count sheet caused us to miss a few players but most have been located now.

Chip Counts:

6. Markus “LURPLED” Gonsalves: 108,600
13. Carter “ckingusc” King: 88,500
17. Josh “Sdouble” Schlein: 81,725
18. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson: 81,350
20. Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little: 81,100
21. Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire: 76,725
22. Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar: 74,650
30. Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery: 71,550
45. David “DocSands” Sands: 62,400
46. Justin “Boosted J” Smith: 61,400
51. Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista: 59,000
54. Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark: 58,450
55. Corwin “mig.com” Mackey: 58,275
56. Adam “Roothlus” Levy: 58,050
75. Isaac “mr. menlo” Baron: 44,875
76. Matt “mcmatto” Affleck: 44,225
79. Scott “BigRiskky” Clements: 43,700
82. Darryll “Dfish” Fish: 42,025
84. Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes: 41,200
85. Jake “TheMuffin” Solis: 40,675
90. David “Bakes” Baker: 39,425
95. Steven “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer: 38,150
115. David “Davidp18″ Peters: 32,350
124. Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith: 28,725
133. Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah: 25,275
141. Adam “A_Junglen” Junglen: 23,900
143. Allen “AawwNutz” Carter: 23,200
154. Matt “All In At 420″ Stout: 19,450
160. Brian “sn8wman” Hawkins: 16,925
167. Phil “USCphildo” Collins: 13,850
169. Brent “Bhanks” Hanks: 12,375
174. Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti: 11,125

Not found in the chip counts, likely late day eliminations:
Jason “JAKOON1985″ Koon
Randal “RandALLin” Flowers

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