Kahle Burns takes main event lead as Jonathan Dokler and Fedor Holz books day 2 seats

Four more Day 1 flights are in the bag as the longest ‘day’ in the history of the World Series of Poker Main Event continued unabated in the race to book a seat for Day 2.

That, of course, can only be done by surviving 15 levels, each lasting 30 minutes, during a Day 1 flight, of which there are a ridiculous number. With almost two dozen Day 1 flights taking place on GGPoker and a total of three entries permitted for every player, there are plenty of chances for legends to be born in the next few weeks.

Day 2 may take place on August 30th, but there’s an awful lot of poker to take place before then. Day 1g saw a pretty balanced set of names make it through to the next stage, with a total of 32 names making it through from the flight. 

These included the chip leader from that flight, Anmol Srivats, who brought through 649,699 as well as his closest competitors Andres Korn (624,071), Dinesh Alt (620,747) and Werner Smit (592,161). Others to make it through from Day 1g included Joao Santos (486,672), Ben Jones (466,017), German high roller Fabian Quoss (247,368) and former WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong (135,397).