Main Event Day 1A review: Imran builds the early chip lead
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-07-28
Imran Bhojani stands tallest with 457K in chips as 49 players remain after a busy Day 1A in the Main Event.
Imran Bhojani sits in a comfortable position with 457,000, while Jaco Mouton is the closest chaser with 324,500.
Main Event Day 1A, which had a slightly discounted entry to the event of R14000, saw a total of 140 entries.
This injects R1.66M into the prize pool, quickly closing in on the R2.5M guarantee.
ShuffleUp organisers are already set to increase the guarantee going into Day 2.
Chip Counts:
Average Stack: 160,000
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Imran Bhojani | 457,000 | 229 | | 2 | Jaco Mouton | 324,500 | 162 | | 3 | Damon Fine | 316,000 | 158 | | 4 | Harold Brooks | 288,000 | 144 | | 5 | Rudolf Fourie | 250,500 | 125 | | 6 | Madankumar Elagala | 240,000 | 120 | | 7 | Arkeev Rohit | 209,000 | 105 | | 8 | AE | 208,000 | 104 | | 9 | Rajeevan Poonhath | 208,000 | 104 | | 10 | Vygandas Simuntis | 198,000 | 99 | | 11 | Stefan Van Huyssteen | 196,500 | 98 | | 12 | Muaaz Gani | 195,500 | 98 | | 13 | Antonio Silva | 192,000 | 96 | | 14 | Ricky Toker | 185,000 | 93 | | 15 | Gavin Sardini | 175,000 | 88 | | 16 | Neville Mutsvangwa | 173,800 | 87 | | 17 | Nicholas Rowley | 172,500 | 86 | | 18 | Roland Trodel | 157,000 | 79 | | 19 | Trishul Govender | 154,500 | 77 | | 20 | Daniel Lamberti | 151,500 | 76 | | 21 | Craig Hartland | 151,000 | 76 | | 22 | Daniel Scott | 139,000 | 70 | | 23 | Pravir Rama | 138,000 | 69 | | 24 | Nadim Makki | 132,000 | 66 | | 25 | Bharat Ramjee | 122,500 | 61 | | 26 | Hennie Appel | 122,000 | 61 | | 27 | Bradley Pillay | 110,000 | 55 | | 28 | Chad Khoury | 106,500 | 53 | | 29 | Patrice Ah Nien | 101,000 | 51 | | 30 | Jonathan Kalil | 96,000 | 48 | | 31 | Ruben Moodley | 95,000 | 48 | | 32 | Cliton Taliwanth | 91,000 | 46 | | 33 | Huawei Sun | 86,000 | 43 | | 34 | Alan Jung | 86,500 | 43 | | 35 | Dhinesh Soopramanien | 84,000 | 42 | | 36 | Moshin Mirchandani | 76,000 | 38 | | 37 | Joshua Moritz | 75,000 | 38 | | 38 | Kayla Jacobs | 74,500 | 37 | | 39 | Wesley Blom | 73,000 | 37 | | 40 | Hendrie Uys | 71,500 | 36 | | 41 | Yule Chetty | 71,500 | 36 | | 42 | Djordje Stojic | 68,500 | 34 | | 43 | Theuns Prinsloo | 63,000 | 32 | | 44 | Banks Solomons | 62,000 | 31 | | 45 | Unknown | 60,000 | 30 | | 46 | Konrad Pretorius | 52,500 | 26 | | 47 | Brett Toker | 51,500 | 26 | | 48 | Raja Vempati | 51,000 | 26 | | 49 | Klaus Pautrot | 44,500 | 22 |