The action continues today at the 2024 World Series of Poker in the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Starting at 12 p.m. local time is Day 3 of a star studded field in Event #52: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed.
After registration closed, 817 entries rounded out the field. This generated a prize pool of $3,762,800 and the remaining 37 players have locked up at least $16,257 for their efforts. Sitting atop the prize pool is $656,747 for the eventual winner, plus the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.
Turbo Nguyen of the United States currently tops the counts with 2,700,000 in chips. Close behind is Lucas Blanco with 2,645,000 as both players sit within a comfortable distance above the third place stack.
Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Turbo Nguyen
United States
2,700,000
108
2
Lucas Blanco
Spain
2,645,000
106
3
Georgios Sotiropoulos
Greece
2,190,000
88
4
Yang Zhang
China
2,170,000
87
5
Nenad Dukic
Serbia
2,100,000
84
6
Bogdan Munteanu
Romania
1,800,005
72
7
Jake Schwartz
United States
1,690,000
68
8
Ihar Soika
Belarus
1,580,000
63
9
Kharlin Sued
United States
1,570,000
63
10
Jose Latorre
Spain
1,545,000
62
Jake Schwartz
One of the most successful players from this year's series is the United State’s own David Coleman with 1,045,000 chips. The field remains filled with highly decorated pro players such as Georgios Sotiropoulos (2,190,000), Jake Schwartz (1,690,000), and Dong Chen (660,000).
Day 3 will begin with blinds of 10,000/25,000 and a big blind ante of 25,000. It will take place in the Horseshoe Event Center with the goal for the day being to play until only five players remain.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team brings you all of the action!
In the first hand dealt, Jason Daly put his 60,000 chips into the middle from under the gun and Brandon Schwartz shoved all in for 600,000 from the cutoff.
Jason Daly: 10♦9♠
Brandon Schwartz: A♣K♠
Daly flopped a pair, fell behind on the turn, but rivered two pair to stay alive and almost quadruple his stack on the 9♣7♠6♥K♦10♥ runout.
Jason Daly had an action-packed start to the day but it all came to an end just as he started to get a glimmer of hope.
Daly had already doubled up once and shoved all in with Q♠8♠ and got called Tyler Cornell's J♠J♥. A runout of Q♥4♦4♥6♥10♦ saw Daly hit top pair and double up.
The very next hand, Bogdan Munteanu shoved all in from the small blind, and Daly snapped from the big blind.
Jason Daly: A♣8♠
Bogdan Munteanu: J♦9♥
The board ran out 7♣7♠9♦10♥9♠ which gave Munteanu a full house, and ended Daly's run.
