Un-Shuffle Up Your Cards and Place Them Back in The Rack
Day 1 of Event #50 is in the books, as is the dreams of winning a bracelet for almost 600 people. At least for tonight, anyway. Of the 814 players that entered today’s tournament, just 236 remain with chips.
Easily one of the most star-studded fields to date, the players we lost included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth (in dramatic fashion, as always), Humberto Brenes, Tony Dunst, J.C. Tran, Vanessa Selbst, Shaun Deeb and Jonathan Duhamel. We were even lucky enough to have eight of the most recent November Nine in our field today, with the exception of Michael Mizrachi who is busy playing Heads Up for a bracelet as we speak in Event #47.
If you were skillful and lucky enough to make your way through today’s field onto Day 2, don’t expect to coast by tomorrow. Every table will most certainly be filled with at least a couple of notables, as well as some hidden gems the WSOP unearths every year. We will have a who’s who of talent coming back tomorrow including Andy Black, Lex Veldhuis, Josh Arieh, Gavin Smith, Carlos Mortensen, Jake Cody, Barry Greenstein and not one, BUT TWO, Hachem brothers, Joe and Tony.
However, they will all be chasing Mark Herm who was able to amass 148,400 chips. Not far behind him though are James Akenhead with 144,000 and PokerStars Team Pro Johnny Lodden with 132,600. More importantly, these players not only a lot of chips but plenty of skill to back them up.
This event will be paying 81 places, so with about three times that left starting in the field tomorrow, we should get into the money by mid-day. Be sure to join us before, during, and after the money-bubble pops as the action will be furious all day long. The cards are back in the air at 2:30 p.m. local time and as always, we will see you there with all the coverage!