End of Day 1b of Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Play has now wrapped up for Day 1b of the last $1,000 event of this WSOP series and it's turned out to be the second biggest in history just behind the inaugural "Stimulus" event at the start of the 2009 series which was won by Steve Sung.
At the end of today's proceedings, it looks to us as though Eric Afriat will be the Day 1b chip leader with 100,200 with about 380 players remaining from the second start day for event #54 joining our 275 survivors from Day 1a tomorrow in the Amazon room.
We had a whopping 2,644 players start today including numerous well-known players such as Jonathan Duhamel, Galen Hall, Liv Boeree, David Williams and Michael Mizrachi but all of them fell by the wayside early on in this rapid fire event. Fortunately this is a four day event so there is lots of time yet to whittle this field down to it's conclusion.
We'll be restarting tomorrow at 2.30pm, perhaps slightly in the shadow of the $50,000 Players' Championship event, but with a gold bracelet for the winner nonetheless and with 468 places being paid, you can be sure that we'll be trying to follow everyone involved to the best of our ability.
We'll see you then!