Welcome back to Day 2 of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Championship!
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event No. 46, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event. Yesterday World Series of Poker officials and fans were pleasantly surprised to see 474 entrants in this event, creating a prize pool of $4,455,600. A total of 48 players will get paid, but a whopping $1.15 million is reserved for the tournament’s winner, the largest first-place prize thus far at this 2011 WSOP.
Today, only 162 players will return as they battle their way to the money and toward the final table. There are plenty of big-name pros left in the field including David "Bakes" Baker, James Akenhead, McLean Karr, Ali Eslami, David “Devilfish” Ulliott, and Daniel Alaei, just to name a few. However, all of those players are chasing those in the “200K” Club: Mike Sowers, Ben Lamb, Kevin Saul, Joe Cada, and Alan Sternberg, who is the chip leader at the start of Day 2 with 260,600.
Play resumes at 2:30 P.M. PST, which is just under an hour away. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be in full force to bring you all of the action, chip counts, and eliminations from the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Championship, so join us then!