While Lucas Blanco Oliver was busy navigating his way to the Devilfish Cup title, the £1 million guaranteed partypoker WPT UK Main Event Day 1a was getting underway at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
A total of 177 entries, of £2,200 each, were processed and 125 of those starters made it through to Friday’s Day 2. None of those surviving players bagged up more chips than the 150,000 in the overnight chip bag of Cesar Garcia Dominguez.
2016 partypoker WPT UK Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cesar Garcia Dominguez | 150,000 |
| 2 | Ning Lu | 147,275 |
| 3 | Jimmy Guerrero | 130,000 |
| 4 | Kuljinder Sidhu | 121,150 |
| 5 | Jan-Eric Schwippert | 116,500 |
| 6 | Breixo Gonzalez | 103,825 |
| 7 | Padraig Parkinson | 103,550 |
| 8 | Chris DaSilva | 93,000 |
| 9 | Daniel Stanway | 90,800 |
| 10 | Chris Gordon | 89,850 |
Spain’s Cesar Garcia Dominguez finished Day 1a with 150,000 chips, enough for first place in the overnight chip counts, while Ning Lu also had a successful day and ended the night with a healthy stack of 147,275.