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Greg Raymer. Daniel Negreanu. Lee Watkinson. Ted F orrest. Kenny Tran. All five of these top level pr os were part of the casualties on Day 1b at the 20 08 World Series of Poker Main Event. But they were n’t alone. Of the 1,157 players who started the da y only 621 survived the day. Leading the way is Ben Sarnoff who took advantage of a table change in the middle of the third level of play to build up his stack to 177,000. “I’ve been at two tabl es. The second table is unusal. I don’t think they have ever played against a big stack before,” sai d Sarnoff. “There were a couple of people who kept challenging me. There was one guy with a big stac k who kept going at me and I kept getting hands. H e gave me about 40,000 in chips.” Just behind S arnoff is Brian Schaedlich with 156,000. He qualif ied via a $130 satellite at Mountaineer Race Track in West Virginia. This is not only Schaedlich’s f irst WSOP, but his first time in Las Vegas. “It ’s my first time out here, just want to make my fi rst main event a big one and try to have a lot of fun,” said Schaedlich. “I thought I would be (nerv ous0 if I ended up with a big stack, but I haven’t broke my concentration, I think when I go home a nd get to my hotel room it will probably hit me th en” But while Sarnoff and Schaedlich are at the top of the leaderboard, two of the game’s top you ng players are in the top 10. Robert Mizrachi m anaged to build his stack to 131,000 and finds him self in fourth spot. Two spots behind him is Canad ian Marc Karam with 113,000. 2008 WSOP Player-of-t he-Year Erick Lindgren found himself at the featur e table for the entire day and wound up in the top 20 in chips with 93,325. The 616 players who survived the day will return on Tuesday at Noon PT and combine with the 636 players left from Day 1a action. Mark Garner is the current overall chip l eader with 194,900. Check out the Day 1b chip c ounts for a complete breakdown of the day’s action .