Pascal Hartmann Leads $25K Super High Roller After Day 1A

Matthew Pitt

Day 1A of the $25,500 Super High Roller Championship in the partypoker WPT World Online Championships is done and dusted. Eighty-eight of the world's best players bought in and only 11 of them survived the first flight.

Nobody bagged up more chips than Pascal Hartmann who turned his 100,000 starting stack into a colossal 1,964,082 chips over the course of 18 levels.

Hartmann is a superb poker player and one who has put in several deep runs during the WPTWOC series. He's not managed to take down a Championship Event yet, bit this incredible start has done his chances of glory no harm at all.

Team partypoker's Mikita Badziakouski is Hartmann's closest rival when it comes to number of chips. Badziakouski bagged up 1,250,461 and was one of only three players to finish Day 1A with a seven-figure stack. German superstar Ole Schemion (1,103,933) was the other.

The Day 1A field was stacked, as you'd expect from such a big buy-in event. Kahle Burns (969,133) has started the tournament well while the likes of Stephen Chidwick (666,999), and recent WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (492,621) also progressed.

Jan Arends finished the opening flight with 146,456 chips and has a lot of work to do then Day 2 commences at 8:05 p.m. CEST on September 21.

Day 1A Chips Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Pascal Hartmann	Austria	1,964,082
2	Mikita Badziakouski	Slovenia	1,250,461
3	Ole Schemion	Austria	1,103,933
4	Kahle Burns	Mexico	969,133
5	Aleksei Barkov	Russia	686,962
6	Stephen Chidwick	Mexico	666,999
7	Rui Ferreira	Netherlands	652,721
8	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	492,621
9	Timothy Adams	Canada	459,213
10	Jake Schindler	Mexico	407,419
11	Jans Arends	Netherlands	146,456

_{Countries as displayed in the partypoker client}

With only 11 players progressing, it meant 77 players crashed and burned on Day 1A. They can all take a second bite at the cherry at 8:05 p.m. CEST on September 20 should they wish to part company with $25,500.

Expect to see such luminaries as Justin Bonomo, Adrian Mateos, Linus Loeliger, Steve O'Dwyer, David Peters, Niklas Astedt, and Team partypoker pros Dzmitry Urbanovich, Isaac Haxton, and Jason Koon all take another shot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pascal Hartmann	1,964,082 1,964,082	1,964,082
Mikita Badziakouski	1,250,461 1,250,461	1,250,461

Ole Schemion	1,103,933 1,103,933	1,103,933

Kahle Burns	969,133 969,133	969,133
Aleksei Barkov	686,962 686,962	686,962
Stephen Chidwick	666,999 666,999	666,999
Rui Ferreira	652,721 652,721	652,721
Daniel Dvoress	492,621 492,621	492,621

Timothy Adams	459,213 459,213	459,213
Jake Schindler	407,419 407,419	407,419
Jans Arends	146,456 146,456	146,456