Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Late registration were still open and 196 more players joined the field today, bringing the total count at more than 9,500 entries.
It makes the event the fifth largest this year in terms of entries, and more than 5 times bigger in terms of prizepool than Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller ($17M), reaching more than $90M.
3,900 players returned in day 2ABC and 1,900 players have advanced to day 3. Day 1C chip leader Christopher Brammer had a second great day and bagged the largest stack with 879,000 chips.
Most of the previous Main Event champions will also play at least one more day: Johnny Chan (372,000), Jamie Gold (248,000), Joe Cada (241,500), Joe McKeehen (220,000), Scott Blumstein (192,500), Ryan Riess (151,000), Damian Salas (147,500), Martin Jacobson (128,000) and Tom McEvoy (20,000).
Will return too: Patrik Antonius (584,500), Stephen Chidwick (472,500), Billy Baxter (434,000), Doug Polk (433,000), Mike Matusow (263,500), Brian Hastings (262,000), Josh Arieh (254,000) and many more…
Yesterday also saw the start of Event #77: $777 Lucky 7’s No-Limit Hold’em and Event #78: $1,500 BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha. More about these tomorrow!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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