Day 1a of the €500 Main Event attracted 173 entries. Below are the chip counts for those 43 who made it through to Day 2, which includes PartyPoker Tour Ambassadors/poker legends Niall “Firaldo” Farrell and Barny Boatman.
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kilin Csaba | Spain | 656,000 |
| 2 |  Alexey Neofitov | Russia | 599,000 |
| 3 |  Fred Wulff | Germany | 528,000 |
| 4 | Pablo Moreno | Spain | 465,000 |
| 5 | Antonio Ledo | Spain | 421,000 |
| 6 | David Rodriguez Lamas | Spain | 398,000 |
| 7 | Manuel O’shea | Spain | 352,000 |
| 8 | Junda Zhu | Spain | 288,000 |
| 9 | Karima Barka | Spain | 280,000 |
| 10 |  Niall “Firaldo” Farrell | Scotland | 277,000 |
| 11 | Abraham Gil | Spain | 273,000 |
| 12 | Miguel Lucignoli | Spain | 265,000 |
| 13 | Ignacio Tabnanera | Spain | 251,000 |
| 14 |  Matheus Salomao | Brazil | 209,000 |
| 15 |  Dmitri Dudakov | Estonia | 202,000 |
| 16 |  Nicolas Le Floch | France | 200,000 |
| 17 |  Marco Papili | Italy | 194,000 |
| 18 |  Kurtis Ellesmere | Northern Ireland | 191,000 |
| 19 | Juan Castejon | Spain | 188,000 |
| 20 | Pablo Sanchez | Spain | 185,000 |
| 21 | Alfonso Benitez | Spain | 184,000 |
| 22 | Yuanjie Chen | Spain | 164,000 |
| 23 | Ricardo Moran | Spain | 157,000 |
| 24 | Rolando Giha | Spain | 145,000 |
| 25 |  Barny Boatman | United Kingdom | 132,000 |
| 26 |  Lynne Beaumont | England | 124,000 |
| 27 | Sergio Garcia | Spain | 118,000 |
| 28 | Iain Johnstone | Scotland | 94,000 |
| 29 | Francisco Lomana | Spain | 93,000 |
| 30 | Thomas Sanderson | United Kingdom | 87,000 |
| 31 | Fernando Sedano | Spain | 83,000 |
| 32 | Harry Sandford | United Kingdom | 80,000 |
| 33 |  Gary Kelleher | Ireland | 77,000 |
| 34 | Alvaro Sanchez | Spain | 76,000 |
| 35 |  Irene Semedo | Portugal | 70,000 |
| 36 | John Blanco | Spain | 65,000 |
| 37 | Josee Lauz | Spain | 65,000 |
| 38 | Alvaro Gomez | Spain | 56,000 |
| 39 | Francisco Molina | Spain | 56,000 |
| 40 | Ignacio Zavala | Spain | 55,000 |
| 41 | Yi Hu | Spain | 52,000 |
| 42 | Denis O’Riordan | Ireland | 51,000 |
| 43 | Jose Ferreras | Spain | 29,000 |
