Mark Seif Second in Chips After Day 1 of the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
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.
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.
A remarkable hand was when Ta-wei Tou held aces and four broadway pocket pairs were all in preflop.
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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