R5K Emerald Blast Day 2 (Preview)
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-09-13
African Ace looks at Day 1 summary of the R5K Emerald Blast ahead of the final day of competition.
There were 14 players remaining after Day 1 ended at 11PM on Saturday night.
Alexander Jordaan is the chip leader with a 292K stack. This is 98 big blinds deep - 2.5 times the average.
Stephen Courtney is second in chips with 250K.
There are 1.6M chips in play, an average stack of 115,000.
Late registration closes at 12PM.
Max late reg players will kick off with 30 big blinds (with buy-in and add-on).
So plenty of opportunity to play your way to glory in the final event of the Emerald poker series.
Chip Counts
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | Table | Seat | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Alexander Jordaan | 292,900 | 98 | 3 | 3 | | 2 | Stephen Courtney | 250,300 | 83 | 2 | 1 | | 3 | Jonathan Hyman | 147,000 | 49 | 3 | 2 | | 4 | Imran Bhojani | 133,300 | 44 | 5 | 1 | | 5 | Glen Bezuidenhout | 122,300 | 41 | 2 | 2 | | 6 | Sarie Lloyd | 106,800 | 36 | 2 | 5 | | 7 | Timothy Du Plessis | 103,900 | 35 | 2 | 4 | | 8 | Quintin Heather-Clark | 99,900 | 33 | 2 | 3 | | 9 | Mariska Fourie | 73,000 | 24 | 5 | 4 | | 10 | Robin Moir | 73,000 | 24 | 5 | 3 | | 11 | Eben Lottering | 72,500 | 24 | 3 | 1 | | 12 | Leoni Du Plessis | 60,000 | 20 | 5 | 2 | | 13 | Marko Savvas | 48,000 | 16 | 5 | 5 | | 14 | Albert Lloyd | 26,600 | 9 | 3 | 5 |