R15K Main Event Day 2: Chip Update

African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-08-01

Main Event

With 11 spots from the money, Imran Bhojani has reclaimed the chip lead with 1.46M in chips.

Blinds are currently on 6000-12000-12000.

There are 20.2M chips in play and 38 players remain, an average stack of 545K - just 11 places from the money.

Imran Bhojani leads on 1,460,000, 122 big blinds deep, 2.7 times the average.

Nick Ioannou is next on 1,210,000.

Hennie Appel rounds out the top 3 with 1,150,000 chips.

Chip Counts (estimate counts from reporters)

| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Imran Bhojani | 1,460,000 | 122 | | 2 | Nick Ioannou | 1,210,000 | 101 | | 3 | Hennie Appel | 1,150,000 | 96 | | 4 | Craig Hartland | 1,100,000 | 92 | | 5 | Damon Fine | 1,005,000 | 84 |