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Royalty in the House

Tournament Director Tom McDonough welcomes Dennis Phillips, the third-place finisher in last year's WSOP Main Event, to the WSOP Circuit championship at Caesars Atlantic City

Mar 13 2009 01:13 PM EST

Chris Klodnicki leads the way at the WSOP Circuit Championship Event currently underway at Caesars Atlantic City. Here are the chip counts after Day 1.

1	Chris Klodnicki	Voorhees, NJ	218,800
2	Richard C.	Philadelphia, PA	149,000
3	Alex Bolotin	Brooklyn, NY	148,800
4	Robert Willis	Bellmawr, NJ	143,700
5	Gissel Heredia	New York, NY	134,800
6	Igor Borukkov	Queens, NY	133,100
7	Michael Katz	Manalapan, NJ	131,900
8	Craig Boyd	Winston-Salem, NC	130,400
9	Robert Elias	Seaford, NY	130,000
10	Tom Sheets	Norfolk, VA	118,300
11	Adam Sanders	Atlantic Highlands, NJ	110,300
12	Steven T. Cho	Derwood, MD	110,000
13	Samuel Chartier	Montreal, Quebec (Canada)	107,900
14	Matt Brady	Havertown, PA	104,000
15	Gregg Fishberg	Willow Grove, NJ	102,700
16	Ted Ely	Brooklyn, NY	98,500
17	Ryan Karp	Washington, DC	96,900
18	David Zeitlin	Brooklyn, NY	95,800
19	Mike "Little Man" Sica	N. Brunswick, NJ	87,800
20	Tony Bueti	Mt. Kislo, NJ	87,400
21	John Nixon	Toronto, Ontario (Canada)	87,000
22	Timothy J. Ulner	Willow Grove, NJ	84,200
23	Larry Vance	Lakewood, CA	83,800
24	Anthony Newman	Brooklyn, NY	82,000
25	Rick Austin	Lansdale, PA	82,000
26	Francis Vizza	Colorado Spring Harbor, NJ	78,300
27	Dwight Eley	Rocky Mount, NC	73,400
28	Alexander Nepomnyaschiy	Atlantic City, NJ	69,600
29	Donald Himpele	Mahwah, NJ	68,900
30	Casey Jarzabek	St. Catharines, NJ	68,600
31	Rafal Michalowski	Syosset, NY	66,200
32	Ben Fineman	Las Vegas, NV	64,800
33	David Fox	Coram, NY	62,400
34	Jeffrey Izes	Washington Crossing, PA	62,000
35	Jason Young	Suffern, NY	59,800
36	Ken McKusick	Towson, MD	54,400
37	Eric Doerr	Newark, DE	53,100
38	David Inselberg	Long Beach, NY	52,000
39	Joe Loguidice	Atlantic City, NJ	49,400
40	Jonathan Wein	Medford, NY	46,800
41	Bill Gazes	Brooklyn, NY	45,700
42	Sheree Bykofsky	Brigantine, NJ	42,300
43	John McEwen	Nazareth, NJ	39,900
44	Chuck Kim	Greenville, SC	38,900
45	Beth Shak	Bryn Mawr, PA	38,700
46	Michael Michnik	Voorhees, NJ	37,700
47	San Parzow	Severn, MD	35,900
48	Brent Roberts	Staten Island, NY	33,500
49	Mike Leah	Toronto , Ontario (Canada)	33,300
50	Mike Stonehill	Stafford, VA	27,200
51	Cliff Josephy	Syosset, NY	26,800
52	Lawrence Grassadonia	Manalapan, NJ	20,800

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