With four starting flights of Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas 2023 World Series of Poker coming to their conclusion, action restarts today for Day 2. The players who managed to progress to the second stage of play combine for the first time today, guaranteeing the bracelet winner will be among the 827 players entering the colosseum this morning.
Entries reached 3,940; 4,571; 6,110; and 8,467 for flights Day 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d respectively meaning the total amount of entries stands at 23,088, the largest of the WSOP 2023 so far, smashing the initial $3,000,000 guarantee.
Notable names still in the field include six-time bracelet winner and beloved poker personality Daniel Negreanu, who bagged 2,250,000 chips. Negreanu is no stranger to the high-stakes scene, so seeing him perform so well in the lowest buy-in tournament of the series has been a spectacle for poker fans and players alike.
Joining Negreanu among the biggest stacks coming into Day 2 include each starting flight's chip leaders Patrick White (3,405,000), Justin Arnwine (3,405,000), Richard Gao (3,105,000) and Marcy Jo Phillips (2,965,000). All of whom have their eye on being crowned the inaugural champion of this event.
The field also includes a selection of players who are no strangers to World Series glory. In the mix for Day 2 are bracelet winners Mike Allis (1,865,000) and Ian Steinman (855,000), two-time circuit ring winner Timothy Little (705,000) and two-time bracelet winner Anatolii Zyrin (1,450,000).
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | Patrick White | United States | 3,405,000 | 68 |
| 2 | Richard Gao | United States | 3,105,000 | 62 |
| 3 | Peter Lee | United States | 3,100,000 | 62 |
| 4 | Olav Prinz Von Sachsen | Germany | 3,085,000 | 62 |
| 5 | Juatin Arnwine | United States | 3,080,000 | 62 |
| 6 | Dawn Dixon | United States | 3,045,000 | 61 |
| 7 | Marcy Jo Philliips | United States | 2,965,000 | 59 |
| 8 | Robbie Ko | United States | 2,865,000 | 57 |
| 9 | Joshua Zerbe | United States | 2,770,000 | 55 |
| 10 | Matthew Krieger | United States | 2,760,000 | 55 |
Day 2 commences at 10 a.m. local time on the 11th of June in the Horseshoe. Players will play through 17 forty-minute levels with a break every 3 levels for twenty minutes. After level 31 players will also have a sixty-minute dinner break.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as we play down to the winner of this event and for all updates regarding the 2023 WSOP.
