R15K Main Event Day 1A (Review): Okkie, Ryan with the early lead
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-11-03
Okkie Fourie leads the 41 surviving players from Day 1A of the R15K Main Event, holding a narrow edge over Ryan James at the top of the chip counts.
Day 1A of The Main Event has wrapped up with 41 players advancing to Day 2 from this opening flight. This after 106 total entries.
Okkie Fourie sits at the top of the counts with 300K chips (188 big blinds), holding a razor-thin lead over Ryan James who bagged 297,900.
A.K. follows closely in third with 280,300, with the top three stacks accounting for 17% of the total 5.3M chips in play.
The room remains deep heading out of Level 9 with blinds at 800-1600-1600, as 27 players return with 50 big blinds or more.
Chip Counts
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Okkie Fourie | 300,000 | 188 | | 2 | Ryan James | 297,900 | 186 | | 3 | A.K | 280,300 | 175 | | 4 | Darren Buytenhuys | 264,500 | 165 | | 5 | Roy Bitton | 240,800 | 151 | | 6 | Stephen Courtney | 231,000 | 144 | | 7 | Tshediso Mpya | 223,400 | 140 | | 8 | Theuns Prinsloo | 221,700 | 139 | | 9 | Alexandre Blanc | 201,900 | 126 | | 10 | Frank Chilchik | 181,100 | 113 | | 11 | Max Deveson | 165,000 | 103 | | 12 | Clive Kikia | 146,600 | 92 | | 13 | Cliton Taliwanth | 145,500 | 91 | | 14 | Arkeev Rohit | 144,500 | 90 | | 15 | Marc Joseph | 135,300 | 85 | | 16 | Jaryd Jardien | 134,100 | 84 | | 17 | Jaco Mouton | 132,000 | 83 | | 18 | Dimitri Hadjipaschali | 127,100 | 79 | | 19 | Hadar Goren | 125,200 | 78 | | 20 | Nabeelah Felix | 124,200 | 78 | | 21 | Timothy Du Plessis | 119,200 | 75 | | 22 | Bernard Lim Kin | 107,700 | 67 | | 23 | Gilbert Tin Fook | 97,900 | 61 | | 24 | Hans Van Der Hulst | 92,000 | 58 | | 25 | Damon Fine | 87,100 | 54 | | 26 | Patrice AH Nien | 86,900 | 54 | | 27 | Sophia Visser | 82,600 | 52 | | 28 | Simon Solomon | 76,800 | 48 | | 29 | Unknown | 67,000 | 42 | | 30 | Edgar Antezana | 65,000 | 41 | | 31 | Divan Le Roux | 63,100 | 39 | | 32 | David NG | 62,400 | 39 | | 33 | Benny Qin | 61,200 | 38 | | 34 | Netero | 60,300 | 38 | | 35 | Jacques Hartman | 59,800 | 37 | | 36 | Gordon Padayachee | 59,800 | 37 | | 37 | Kendrick Arason | 59,300 | 37 | | 38 | Will Vorster | 48,800 | 31 | | 39 | Maryna Vechirska | 46,600 | 29 | | 40 | Lambo | 41,600 | 26 | | 41 | Christian Du Plessis | 33,100 | 21 |