A star-studded field flooded Day 1 of Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em, 400 players started the day and the field filled up to 1,962 players with 321 players bagging up for Day 2. The money bubble will hit at 295, so day 2 will move swiftly. The prize pool created was $3,492,360, and the winner will take home $524,777 and the gold bracelet.
Lee Piniatoglou leads the field and bagged 738,000. Former lawyer and two-time bracelet winner Mark Seif was second in chips at 711,000. Trailing close behind is Josh Reichard , who ended the night with 666,000.
Josh Reichard
End of Day Top 10 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Lee Piniatoglou
United States
738,000
123
2
Mark Seif
United States
711,000
119
3
Joshua Reichard
United States
666,000
111
4
Kai Zheng
United States
567,000
95
5
Chad Brewer
United States
565,000
94
6
Jong Kim
United States
564,000
94
7
Marc Macdonnell
Ireland
561,000
94
8
Miles Crowder
United States
510,000
85
9
Jose Rodriguez
Mexico
505,000
84
10
Xie Haoqi
China
481,000
80
Some of the notables who bagged at the end of the night included, Mustapha Kanit (284,000), Steve Zolotow (276,000), Juha Helppi (201,000), Dominik Nitsche (201,000), Nacho Barbero (185,000), Bin Weng (148,000), Dietrich Fast (135,000), Brad Owen (126,000), Upeshka De Silva (108,000), and Maria Ho (57,000)
Some of the notables that did not make it to Day 2 were Barry Greenstein, David Williams, Jake Daniels,Lexy Gavin-Mather, Benjamin Spragg, Koray Aldemir, and Kevin Martin.
Play will resume in Level 16 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and a 6,000 big blind ante at 10:00 a.m. Vegas time in the Horseshoe Silver section on June 16.
There will be another ten 60-minute levels played with a 15-minute break every two. A 60-minute dinner break is scheduled after Level 21 (approx 4:30 p.m. local time).
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