Bracelet Winners and a Hall of Famer Headline Top Ten Entering Day 2 of Stud Championship
2006 $1,500 Stud champion David Williams may top the list of 55 returnees to Event #14: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship with an impressive stack of 530,500 chips, but he still has a way to go to claim his second bracelet in the discipline.
In the top ten alone are fellow bracelet winners Brian Yoon, Justin Liberto, Joey Couden, Frank Kassela, and Hall of Famer Eli Elezra, and that’s not to mention the rest of the stacked field remaining, with more to come as registration remains open until the start of play at 1 p.m. local time.
Start of Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Williams | United States | 530,500 |
| 2 | Max Hoffman | United States | 317,500 |
| 3 | Tamon Nakamura | Japan | 289,500 |
| 4 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 247,000 |
| 5 | Brian Yoon | United States | 216,500 |
| 6 | Matt Vengrin | United States | 208,500 |
| 7 | justin Liberto | United States | 205,000 |
| 8 | Joey Couden | United States | 196,000 |
| 9 | Frank Kassela | United States | 186,000 |
| 10 | Eli Elezra | Israel | 184,500 |
Others to keep an eye on include multiple bracelet winners Jeff Madsen (155,500), David "ODB Baker (147,500), David "Bakes" Baker (70,000), Robert Mizrachi (54,000), Michael Mizrachi (46,000), and while he may have less than two big bets to start the day, a spin-up from Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu (13,500) is never out of the question.
After a speedy Day 1 that saw the field of 109 entries thinned by half, the structure slows down Tuesday as play resumes in the Paris ballroom for the first of seven scheduled 90-minute levels, where the players will face limits of 4,000-8,000 to start the day.
Ten-minute breaks are scheduled after every level, with a 60-minute dinner break on the schedule following Level 14 at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Play will continue through those seven levels and then stop for the night, with a champion being crowned on Day 3 Wednesday.
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