Mit 2.192 Teilnehmern war dieses $1.500 No Limit Hold’em eigentlich ein kleines. Rund 320 Spieler kamen heil durch den ersten Tag, wobei Jon Spinks die Führung eroberte und auch noch andere wie David Benyamine und Sam Trickett weit vorne zu finden sind.
Die deutschsprachige Besetzung umfaßte unter anderem PokerStars Pro Seb Ruthenberg, Alex Rettenbacher, 770 Pro Julian Herold, Besim Hot, Bülent Uzun, Donkr Heinz Kamutzki, Seroc Kilic, win2day Ace Ivo Donev, PartyPoker Pro Bodo Sbrzesny, Manig Loeser, Konstantin Bücherl und einige mehr. An internationalen Pros hatte man David Benyamine, Sam Trickett, ElkY, Jonathan Little, Kathy Liebert, Chad Brown, Neil Channing, Jonathan Duhamel oder auch Jeff Madsen an den Tischen.
Das Tempo war wie gewohnt hoch. 4.500 Chips wollen so schnell als möglich vermehrt werden und wenn’s schiefgeht, dann war es wenigstens nur ein kurzer Aufenthalt. Nach diesem Motto spielen viele die $1.500 NLH und entsprechend schnell lichteten sich auch wieder die Reihen.
ElkY, Tom Dwan, Men Nguyen, Liv Boeree oder Jon Turner haben schon ihre Plätze geräumt, auch Antonio Esfandiari, Scott Clements, Bill Chen, Dennis Phillips und Beth Shak. Rund 320 Spieler blieben am Ende von Tag 1 übrig, rund 100 bis zu den bezahlten Plätzen. Wer es unter die Top 216 schafft, hat $3018 sicher, auf den Sieger warten doch respektable $540.136.
| Rang | Name | Chipcount |
| 1 | Jonathan Spinks | 133.600 |
| 2 | Gabriel Alarie | 122.800 |
| 3 | David Rounick | 121.200 |
| 4 | Joshua Mancuso | 108.700 |
| 5 | Thomas Lutz | 106.800 |
| 6 | Dustin Dorrance-Bowman | 102.600 |
| 7 | John Diegel | 94.200 |
| 8 | James Kerr | 90.000 |
| 9 | Steven Burkholder | 89.600 |
| 10 | Kwinsee Khoa Tran | 89.100 |
| 11 | Luke Staudenmaier | 86.300 |
| 12 | Bobby Lanham | 84.300 |
| 13 | Fawz Bennis | 84.100 |
| 14 | Brett Shaffer | 83.800 |
| 15 | Andrew Schultz | 83.700 |
| 16 | Jan Veit | 77.400 |
| 17 | Robert Whalen | 77.200 |
| 18 | Mike Allis | 77.000 |
| 19 | Dana Kellstrom | 76.600 |
| 20 | Julian Herold | 75.700 |
| 21 | Jesse Rockowitz | 71.100 |
| 22 | Evan Cutler | 70.000 |
| 23 | Bryan Devonshire | 68.800 |
| 24 | Jeffrey Watterworth | 68.600 |
| 25 | Paul Nash | 68.000 |
| 26 | Brandon Becker | 68.000 |
| 27 | Michael Gray | 67.600 |
| 28 | Guillaume Rivet | 66.400 |
| 29 | Per Martin Jacobson | 64.400 |
| 30 | Dan Lu | 62.700 |
| 31 | Robert Cheung | 62.600 |
| 32 | Garni Barkhoudarian | 62.400 |
| 33 | Benjamin Palmer | 60.700 |
| 34 | Ryan Eriquezzo | 60.300 |
| 35 | Kevin MacPhee | 60.000 |
| 36 | Tony Catena | 59.800 |
| 37 | Isaac Settle | 58.900 |
| 38 | Ryan Mackinnon | 58.600 |
| 39 | Steve Lesmeister | 58.500 |
| 40 | Jacob Toole | 56.800 |
| 41 | David Cahill | 56.400 |
| 42 | Francis Lynch | 56.100 |
| 43 | Alexander Martin | 55.900 |
| 44 | Melanie Weisner | 55.600 |
| 45 | Thomas Kitt | 55.000 |
| 46 | Matthew Lupton | 54.700 |
| 47 | Aliaksei Kastsiushyn | 54.600 |
| 48 | Orson Young | 53.900 |
| 49 | Nicholas Stowell | 53.100 |
| 50 | Matthias De Meulder | 52.300 |
| 51 | Peter Dawson | 51.800 |
| 52 | Aaron Orourke | 50.500 |
| 53 | Michael Doyle | 50.400 |
| 54 | Robert Lipkin | 50.400 |
| 55 | Kose Metin | 50.200 |
| 56 | Mathieu Poutine | 49.900 |
| 57 | Ryan Pochedly | 49.900 |
| 58 | Simon Charette | 49.700 |
| 59 | Pietermichae Degoede | 49.600 |
| 60 | Andrew Tai | 49.200 |
| 61 | Kevin Grubisic | 48.900 |
| 62 | Cezary Sliwinski | 48.400 |
| 63 | Matthew Woodward | 48.000 |
| 64 | Yuji Masaki | 47.300 |
| 65 | Jeffrey Hart | 46.600 |
| 66 | Patrick Karschamroon | 46.600 |
| 67 | Jurgen Wenigwieser | 46.500 |
| 68 | Jay Hynds | 46.500 |
| 69 | Shawn Van Asdale | 46.500 |
| 70 | Dmitry Kataeb | 46.200 |
| 71 | Paul Odum | 45.800 |
| 72 | James Lopushinsky | 45.500 |
| 73 | Andy Phan | 45.400 |
| 74 | Calvin Anderson | 45.400 |
| 75 | Kurt Fitzgerald | 45.300 |
| 76 | Sam Trickett | 45.300 |
| 77 | Sebastian Ruthenberg | 45.100 |
| 78 | Alexander Morris | 44.300 |
| 79 | Benjamin Dobson | 44.100 |
| 80 | Tad Jurgens | 43.800 |
| 81 | Derrick Yamada | 43.300 |
| 82 | Kristopher Cunz | 43.100 |
| 83 | Shayne Khanna | 42.900 |
| 84 | Alex Jacob | 42.800 |
| 85 | John Campanello | 42.200 |
| 86 | Brandon Wong | 41.300 |
| 87 | Perry Lin | 41.000 |
| 88 | Randolph Lanosga | 40.900 |
| 89 | Dylan Linde | 40.900 |
| 90 | Mark Bramley | 40.700 |
| 91 | John Tamai | 40.500 |
| 92 | Trieu Hong | 40.200 |
| 93 | Jakub Wojtas | 39.800 |
| 94 | Shawn Busse | 39.700 |
| 95 | Joey Weissman | 39.100 |
| 96 | Alex Smith | 39.000 |
| 97 | Stanley Lee | 39.000 |
| 98 | Nail Aliyev | 38.800 |
| 99 | Johnny Woolen | 38.700 |
| 100 | Christopher Homan | 38.700 |
| 101 | Tay Nguyen | 38.600 |
| 102 | Georgios Kapalas | 38.300 |
| 103 | Dan Carter | 38.100 |
| 104 | Steven Hart | 37.600 |
| 105 | Benjamin Fineman | 37.000 |
| 106 | Nikolai Sears | 36.600 |
| 107 | Frank Cascino | 36.500 |
| 108 | Jordan Smith | 36.400 |
| 109 | Ryan Laplante | 36.300 |
| 110 | La Sengphet | 36.000 |
| 111 | Derek Gomez | 35.100 |
| 112 | Greg Ostrander | 35.100 |
| 113 | Ben Lefew | 34.700 |
| 114 | Joseph Wilson | 34.100 |
| 115 | Eric Roberts | 34.000 |
| 116 | Rodney Burt | 33.900 |
| 117 | Tomi Brouk | 33.800 |
| 118 | Parker Muir | 33.200 |
| 119 | DID NOT REPORT | 33.200 |
| 120 | Bradley Viner | 32.400 |
| 121 | Josef Wilamowski | 32.200 |
| 122 | Adam Koeln | 32.000 |
| 123 | Vincent Cornoyer | 32.000 |
| 124 | Binh Nguyen | 32.000 |
| 125 | Christopher Moutzouris | 31.500 |
| 126 | Tyler Cornell | 31.400 |
| 127 | Brent Sheirbon | 31.300 |
| 128 | Jamie Armstrong | 31.200 |
| 129 | Li Pham | 31.000 |
| 130 | Ryan Snickles | 30.700 |
| 131 | Michael Foust | 30.600 |
| 132 | Samir Bhatia | 30.500 |
| 133 | Jamaal Wright | 30.300 |
| 134 | Ivan Holmes | 30.200 |
| 135 | Justin Smith | 30.200 |
| 136 | Sandeep Pulusani | 30.100 |
| 137 | Farzad Rouhani | 30.100 |
| 138 | John Orr | 30.000 |
| 139 | Hien Ly | 30.000 |
| 140 | Earl Barron | 29.600 |
| 141 | Arnie Friedman | 29.200 |
| 142 | Robert Aron | 29.200 |
| 143 | Adam Lippert | 29.200 |
| 144 | Kenneth Tran | 29.000 |
| 145 | Robert Meyers | 29.000 |
| 146 | Reggie Pan | 29.000 |
| 147 | Don Molden | 28.600 |
| 148 | Ryan Gafford | 28.500 |
| 149 | Jeff Blenkarn | 28.300 |
| 150 | Justin Becker | 28.000 |
| 151 | Robert Haberstroh | 27.700 |
| 152 | Joseph Booth | 27.500 |
| 153 | Louis Cheffy | 27.300 |
| 154 | Martin Comer | 27.200 |
| 155 | Jack Powell | 27.100 |
| 156 | Kai Paulson | 26.800 |
| 157 | Stephen Senger | 26.600 |
| 158 | Aneris Adomkevicius | 26.400 |
| 159 | Mika Paasonen | 26.300 |
| 160 | Sean Getzwiller | 26.000 |
| 161 | Richard Hoffmaster | 26.000 |
| 162 | Patrick Renkers | 25.800 |
| 163 | Robert Perillo | 25.500 |
| 164 | Matthew Waxman | 25.100 |
| 165 | Michael Blanovsky | 25.000 |
| 166 | Gilbert Diaz | 24.900 |
| 167 | Robert Bennett | 24.900 |
| 168 | David Mccaskill | 24.800 |
| 169 | Robert Croak | 24.600 |
| 170 | Minh Luu | 24.600 |
| 171 | Carter Harris | 24.600 |
| 172 | Rhonda Mcleod | 24.500 |
| 173 | Kasper Colding | 24.500 |
| 174 | Rodrigo Nascimento | 24.400 |
| 175 | Yueqi Zhu | 23.900 |
| 176 | Christopher Plummer | 23.900 |
| 177 | Steve Brecher | 23.800 |
| 178 | Renaud Singevin | 23.500 |
| 179 | Natale Kuey | 23.400 |
| 180 | Kenneth Krouner | 23.200 |
| 181 | Andrew Hagee | 22.800 |
| 182 | Eugene Castro | 22.800 |
| 183 | Felipe Montenegro | 22.500 |
| 184 | Icer Addis | 22.500 |
| 185 | Cameron Valentine | 21.800 |
| 186 | Daniel Aldridge | 21.400 |
| 187 | Ryan Karp | 21.300 |
| 188 | Andrew Crawford | 21.100 |
| 189 | Robert Haigh | 21.100 |
| 190 | Frederik Pedersen | 21.000 |
| 191 | Francisco Torres | 20.800 |
| 192 | Joshua Hillock | 20.700 |
| 193 | Michael Bauman | 20.400 |
| 194 | Daniel Park | 20.400 |
| 195 | John Snedegar | 20.300 |
| 196 | Daniel Burket | 20.200 |
| 197 | Robert Engle | 20.100 |
| 198 | Kenneth Stacy | 20.100 |
| 199 | Robert Lebeau | 20.000 |
| 200 | Frederic Pierre | 19.900 |
| 201 | Kenneth Horton | 19.700 |
| 202 | Kevin Song | 19.600 |
| 203 | Alexander Keating | 19.300 |
| 204 | David Riccardi | 19.200 |
| 205 | Bernard Lee | 19.200 |
| 206 | Sergei Malyshev | 19.200 |
| 207 | Richard Washinsky | 19.100 |
| 208 | Mitsuhiro Nakao | 18.700 |
| 209 | John Greene | 18.700 |
| 210 | Ricky Fohrenbach | 18.400 |
| 211 | Matt Wilkins | 18.300 |
| 212 | Louis Nicol | 18.000 |
| 213 | Ankush Mandavia | 17.900 |
| 214 | Celeste Eddins | 17.900 |
| 215 | Sylvain Viollon | 17.800 |
| 216 | Anton Nikaj | 17.800 |
| 217 | Robert Fox | 17.800 |
| 218 | Ted Goldstein | 17.700 |
| 219 | Wade Woelfel | 17.600 |
| 220 | Jeffrey Rogers | 17.600 |
| 221 | Gianluca Speranza | 17.600 |
| 222 | Lewis Hunter | 17.600 |
| 223 | Michael Holland | 17.500 |
| 224 | Paul Ratchford | 17.300 |
| 225 | Robert Cerminara | 17.100 |
| 226 | Brian Chike | 17.000 |
| 227 | Tayfun Rodoplu | 16.800 |
| 228 | Kevin Jonna | 16.800 |
| 229 | Adams Sherman | 16.800 |
| 230 | Danylo Szul | 16.500 |
| 231 | Joseph Abba | 16.400 |
| 232 | Paul Sharbanee | 16.400 |
| 233 | Arkadiy Tsinis | 16.300 |
| 234 | Constance Hammock | 16.000 |
| 235 | John Rubin | 15.900 |
| 236 | Thibault Leduc | 15.900 |
| 237 | Matthew Lakusta | 15.900 |
| 238 | Andrew Badecker | 15.800 |
| 239 | Shaun Hartlin | 15.700 |
| 240 | Lucas Priour | 15.500 |
| 241 | Alex Kelly | 15.500 |
| 242 | John Bongiorno | 15.300 |
| 243 | Devin Porter | 15.000 |
| 244 | Lynn Wilcott | 15.000 |
| 245 | Clement Nieto | 15.000 |
| 246 | Fatolla Shahen | 14.900 |
| 247 | David Leftin | 14.800 |
| 248 | Sumanth Reddy | 14.800 |
| 249 | Eugene Yen | 14.700 |
| 250 | Charles Sanders | 13.800 |
| 251 | Matthew LaGarde | 13.800 |
| 252 | Michael Novajosky | 13.600 |
| 253 | Jonathan Duhamel | 13.500 |
| 254 | Robert Malloy | 13.300 |
| 255 | Michael Cooper | 13.200 |
| 256 | Le Banh | 13.100 |
| 257 | Huynh Cao | 13.000 |
| 258 | Sebastiano Luciano | 13.000 |
| 259 | Chakib Bennani | 13.000 |
| 260 | Kevin Maginn | 12.900 |
| 261 | Martin Stevens | 12.900 |
| 262 | Kyle Chang | 12.500 |
| 263 | Jeffrey Cole | 12.400 |
| 264 | Adam Latimer | 12.200 |
| 265 | Giuseppe Calella | 12.000 |
| 266 | Clement Givry | 11.500 |
| 267 | Dudley Peters | 11.500 |
| 268 | Paul Birman | 11.400 |
| 269 | Thomas Sica | 11.400 |
| 270 | James Passavant | 11.100 |
| 271 | Thomas Joanides | 11.000 |
| 272 | Nicholas Harvalis | 10.800 |
| 273 | Bryan Pena | 10.100 |
| 274 | Daniel Bobick | 10.000 |
| 275 | Randy Lowery | 9.900 |
| 276 | Stepan Dzhigarkhanyan | 9.800 |
| 277 | Marc Steel | 9.800 |
| 278 | James Odonnell | 9.600 |
| 279 | Gilberto Saldivar | 9.500 |
| 280 | Hoai Pham | 8.900 |
| 281 | Vincent Lucardie | 8.800 |
| 282 | David Thomas | 8.700 |
| 283 | Duane Yoshioka | 7.900 |
| 284 | Jason Tang | 7.300 |
| 285 | Brian Chan | 7.000 |
| 286 | Gylbert Drolet | 7.000 |
| 287 | Ryan Biggar | 6.900 |
| 288 | Stuart Pfeifer | 6.900 |
| 289 | Matthew Modaff | 6.900 |
| 290 | Mike Sica | 6.800 |
| 291 | Anthony Winters | 6.300 |
| 292 | Daniel Olson | 6.200 |
| 293 | Steven Tallmanwillcut | 5.700 |
| 294 | Robert Bonneau | 5.400 |
| 295 | Benjamin Masucci | 5.400 |
| 296 | Shane Tomlin | 4.600 |
| 297 | Mabel Brooks | 1.900 |
| 298 | Binh Pham | 1 |
