Yakiv Syzganov Finishes on Top of 13 Day 1B Survivors to Take Overall Lead of Main Event

After the elimination of Cesare Lafranconi in 14th place, the 13 remaining players bagged and tagged their chips for Day 2 of WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence Season 2023, which begins on Saturday at 1:00 CET. Finding the largest stack of the flight is Yakiv Syzganov (pictured) who 634,000 stack, takes the overall lead thus far headed into Day 2.

There were 102 entries today for Day 1B, adding another €97,920 to the prizepool with another two starting flights to boost the total.

A total of 21 have made Day 2 thus far and all survivors in the starting flights will be starting the second day in the money.

Here are the official chip counts of the 13 players who survived Day 1B:

1. Yakiv Syzganov – 634,000
2. Patrick Viret – 380,000
3. Gianluca Atanasio – 301,000
4. Malik Hebidi – 265,000
5. Armand Muratoglu – 234,000
6. Patrick Faraut – 221,000
7. Nicolas Gil – 210,000
8. Jerome Lopez – 188,000
9. Cedric Chevalme – 150,000
10. Julien Mariani – 145,000
11. Franck Kalfon – 139,000
12. Pierre Basile – 108,000
13. Sebastien Lepape – 65,000

Day 1C begins tomorrow (Friday) at 1:00 CET (7:00 am EST). Stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence.

Photography by Danny Maxwell