Sihvonen Bags Day 1a Chip Lead

Day 1a witnessed a healthy field of 138 entries to add €66,240 to the prize pool with still two opening flights to go on Friday and late entry available until the end of the first break on Saturday’s Day 2.

Finland’s Rasmus Sihvonen led the 49 survivors after parlaying his 30,000 opening stack into 227,500 after 12 blind levels of 40 minutes each. Latvia’s Raivis Pucurs, who has been grinding all week for a trophy, finished in second place with 202,000 with Lithuania’s Vilius Žamžickas (170,000), countrymate Darius Kvedaras (158,000), and Latvia’s Vadims Milovs (154,000) rounding out the top five.

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Rasmus Sihvonen	Finland	227,500	91
2	Raivis Pucurs	Latvia	202,000	81
3	Vilius Žamžickas	Lithuania	170,000	68
4	Darius Kvedaras	Lithuania	158,000	63
5	Vadims Milovs	Latvia	154,000	62
6	Jari Mahonen	Finland	147,500	59
7	Aleksandr Naumov	Lithuania	147,000	59
8	Egidijus Oleinik	Lithuania	144,000	58
9	Tadas Šimas	Lithuania	141,500	57
10	Lukas Kviecinskas	Lithuania	131,500	53
11	Saulius Tumosa	Lithuania	124,000	50
12	Arminas Skardžius	Lithuania	123,000	49
13	Raivo Grislis	Latvia	122,000	49
14	Julius Griežė	Lithuania	115,500	46
15	Dominykas Jezerys	Lithuania	112,500	45
16	Vitalijs Tarhanovs	Latvia	105,000	42
17	Vytautas Kačerauskas	Lithuania	98,500	39
18	Dalius Ulevičius	Lithuania	95,500	38
19	Paulius Zakas	Lithuania	95,500	38
20	Mindaugas Grigaitis	Lithuania	91,500	37
21	Bartosz Gorski	Poland	89,000	36
22	Ian Morris	United Kingdom	88,500	35
23	Karolis Kutkauskas	Lithuania	88,000	35
24	Martynas Kaulakys	Lithuania	82,000	33
25	Martynas Miliauskas	Lithuania	80,000	32
26	Mindaugas Simkus	Lithuania	79,500	32
27	Tomas Jagela	Lithuania	74,000	30
28	Aurimas Bagdonas	Lithuania	71,000	28
29	Grzegorz Zimnoch	Poland	70,500	28
30	Jurgis  Beinoras	Lithuania	70,000	28
31	Elvinas Vitkevičius	Lithuania	68,500	27
32	Ričardas Bartašius	Lithuania	64,000	26
33	Ofir Yakim	Israel	54,500	22
34	Vilius Zabarauskas	Lithuania	54,000	22
35	Alexey Mishuk	Israel	53,500	21
36	Andrius Mažeika	Lithuania	51,500	21
37	Saulius Strasevičius	Lithuania	50,000	20
38	Aušra Razmaitė	Lithuania	48,500	19
39	Jevgenijs Sapronenko	Latvia	47,000	19
40	Virginijus Lapėnas	Lithuania	43,500	17
41	Gintaras Naglius	Lithuania	43,500	17
42	Darius Svirskas	Lithuania	41,000	16
43	Edvinas Grimalis	Lithuania	40,000	16
44	Aleksandras Rusinovas	Lithuania	39,500	16
45	Dainius Kudarauskas	Lithuania	34,000	14
46	Robertas Mikuta	Lithuania	26,500	11
47	Dominykas Chrypa	Lithuania	26,000	10
48	Rokas Barzdžius	Lithuania	20,000	8
49	Doroslav Rasiukevič	Lithuania	20,000	8