R15K Main Event Day 1B: Chip Counts (Final)
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-08-01
Sean Bloom emerged as the chip leader of the Main Event Day 1B, flexing a stack of 451K.
After a total of 159 entries into the second flight, there are 48 players who advance to Day 2.
A total of 7,91M of chips in play, creating an average stack of 165K.
Sean Bloom leads on 451,000 with 226 big blinds deep, 2.7 times the average.
TA is next on 446,500.
What The Counts Mean
29 of the Day 1B players advance with 50 big blinds or more, deep enough to play post-flop rather than just shove.
The top three hold 16% of the chips that were in play on Day 1B.
20 players of the 48 sit at or above the 165,000 average.
Chip Counts
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Sean Bloom | 451,000 | 226 | | 2 | TA | 446,500 | 223 | | 3 | Kyle Krishnan | 367,500 | 184 | | 4 | Robert Le Roux | 344,500 | 172 | | 5 | Edgar Antezana | 320,000 | 160 | | 6 | Trung Nguyen | 311,000 | 156 | | 7 | Marc Joseph | 284,500 | 142 | | 8 | Anonymous 3 | 283,500 | 142 | | 9 | Aidan Jacobs | 272,500 | 136 | | 10 | Sheldon Grove | 272,500 | 136 | | 11 | Tutu Russon | 255,000 | 128 | | 12 | Kagiso Mabusela | 250,500 | 125 | | 13 | Dheshan Naran | 244,500 | 122 | | 14 | Mishka Du Toit | 228,500 | 114 | | 15 | Corne Klaver | 208,500 | 104 | | 16 | Jarrod Page | 202,000 | 101 | | 17 | Matthieu Costa | 195,500 | 98 | | 18 | Reneka Dayaljee | 192,500 | 96 | | 19 | Rui Da Costa Braz | 184,500 | 92 | | 20 | Nitish Gooriah | 165,500 | 83 | | 21 | Dhinesh Soopramanien | 163,500 | 82 | | 22 | Alon Argaman | 152,000 | 76 | | 23 | Lavine Singh | 152,000 | 76 | | 24 | Anthony Van Eeden | 150,500 | 75 | | 25 | Kevin Van Villing | 146,000 | 73 | | 26 | PN | 135,000 | 68 | | 27 | Sean Suckerman | 120,000 | 60 | | 28 | Alvin Pillay | 110,000 | 55 | | 29 | Ryan James | 106,500 | 53 | | 30 | Gareth Hudson | 97,000 | 49 | | 31 | Steven Wylie | 95,000 | 48 | | 32 | Dean Whitson | 88,000 | 44 | | 33 | Karl Myburgh | 85,500 | 43 | | 34 | Yuan Prins | 83,500 | 42 | | 35 | Anonymous 2 | 82,500 | 41 | | 36 | Simon Solomon | 82,000 | 41 | | 37 | Jocobus De Nysschen | 72,500 | 36 | | 38 | Dee Moodliyar | 72,000 | 36 | | 39 | Mourad Zerrou | 69,500 | 35 | | 40 | Nafiz Navazali Habib | 60,500 | 30 | | 41 | Milan Chibabhai | 57,500 | 29 | | 42 | Gareth Duncan | 57,000 | 29 | | 43 | Okkie Fourie | 46,000 | 23 | | 44 | Ben | 44,000 | 22 | | 45 | Victor Chilala | 37,500 | 19 | | 46 | Sarah Bryce Borthwick | 33,500 | 17 | | 47 | Jehan Richards | 18,000 | 9 | | 48 | Rudolfo Almeida Perreira | 14,000 | 7 |