The PokerListings Championship kicked off yesterday with the first of three opening flights. Despite The Festival Series not officially starting today, many players couldn't wait with 119 entries getting into the action. A player with the initials W. M. parlayed his 200,000 opening stack into a Day 1a chip leading stack of 3,920,000 to lead the 18 survivors.
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | W M | 3,920,000 |
| 2 | Michael Yates | 2,700,000 |
| 3 | P G | 2,650,000 |
| 4 | V M | 1,865,000 |
| 5 | L R | 1,810,000 |
| 6 | G S | 1,240,000 |
| 7 | E S | 1,145,000 |
| 8 | Luke Cornell | 1,075,000 |
| 9 | Lewis Morton | 1,060,000 |
| 10 | S Y | 970,000 |
| 11 | G T | 945,000 |
| 12 | Dumitru Enache | 910,000 |
| 13 | Mark Stokes | 865,000 |
| 14 | Richard Gregory | 770,000 |
| 15 | Alexandru Grigorie | 705,000 |
| 16 | C T | 460,000 |
| 17 | L F | 425,000 |
| 18 | Lukasz Grabowski | 340,000 |
