The three Day 1 flights of the 2014 World Series of Poker(WSOP) $10,000 Main Event are in the books and its a huge headcount of 6,683 runners vying for the $10 Million guaranteed prize money. The Day 1a as expected drew a small crowd of 771 players, it went up to 2144 on day 1b and as always it was Day 1c, the last starting flight which saw the biggest crowd in 3,768 players. This huge group created a mega prize kitty of $62,820,000 which will be shared by the top 693 finishers.
While Martin Jacobsen accumulated 200,100 chips on Day 1a to lead, Trey Luxemburger garnered 193,450 chips to nose ahead on Day 1b. Day 1c was the biggest field and saw an end moment fight for supremacy with Eric Tracy(206,175 chips) edging past Phil Ivey’s 187,025 stack.
We decided to take a look at last years November Niners and our Indian contingent performance in the Main Event. According to data gathered by OPN, the following are the stacks of the Final Table of 2013 and the Indian poker players playing in the ME.
2013 November Niners after the starting flight of Day 1 at the 2014 WSOP Main Event:
| Name | Starting Flight | Chip Stack |
| Ryan Reiss | 1a | 70,225 |
| JC Tran | 1a | 66,000 |
| Amir Lehavot | 1a | 60,000 |
| Sylvain Loosli | 1c | 17,000 |
| Michiel Brummelhies | 1b | 64,225 |
| Mark Newhouse | 1c | 29,625 |
Indian poker players after the Starting flight of day 1 of the 2014 WSOP Main Event:
| Name | Starting Flight | Chip Stack |
| Aditya Agarwal | 55,000 | |
| Shashank Jain | 1a | 99,350 |
| Sahil Aggarwal | 1b | 10,900 |
| Samay Parikh | 1b | 55,100 |
| Apoorva Goel | 1b | 24,500 |
| Jasven Saigal | 50,000 | |
| Akash Malik | 43,000 |