Jiachen Gong Leads PSCP Main Day 1B

The second Day 1 flight of the PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event drew 259 entrants, pushing the total to 363 total entrants. After eight levels of action Jiachen Gong edged out Caufman Talley for the day’s chip lead with 154,300 to 150,300 respectively.

Canadians Mark Radoja and Erik Cajelais bagged up just over 100,000 while Ari Engel, Luc Greenwood and Andrew Chen finished a little lower in the counts.

The single entry freezeout event left Dzmitry Urbanovich, Pratyush Buddiga, Timothy Adams and Dan Colman free to play the numerous five-figure buy-in events running daily until the festival concludes.

The combined 171 survivors resume play on Day 2 for six, 75-minute levels at noon local time.

Top Ten Chip Counts

1. Jiachen Gong – 154,300
2. Caufman Talley – 150,300
3. Kamal Bittar – 146,700
4. Pablo Fernandez – 133,700
5. Sergey Lebedev – 132,600
6. Oleg Vasylchenko – 129,900
7. Fernando Karam – 129,700
8. Norberto Korn – 127,600
9. Tomas Altamirando – 126,400
10. Erling Voje – 123,400