We only had one new champion yesterday, but lots of tournaments are now running:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool |
| $300 | Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em | $5,679,648 |
Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em
The most affordable live event in the history of the WSOP has registered 23,088 entries. Jason Simon paved the way for the victory and became the last standing “gladiator” for $499,852.
“Your tournament life is so valuable, you have to stay alive no matter what,” the new champion continued in reference to swings yesterday. “When I fell down to 14 million, I never really panicked, found a double up and went up from there.”
Daniel Negreanu notably made a deep run in the tournament but couldn’t get past the 72nd place and won close to 20 times his initial bet for $5,840.
In progress
212 took the starting line in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, now 7 remains with Ben Lamb in the lead, closely followed by two players including Erik Seidel (3rd). They’ve all secured $61k and will try to grab the top $492k main prize.
Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (4,747 entries) stopped during heads-up with Matthew Elsby – looking for his second bracelet – currently ahead of Renji Mao. The players will return today to try to become the champion for $402,588.
Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed has 21 players left in the field. Chad Campbell leads, followed by Daniel Strelitz, Robert Mizrachi (5th), Shaun Deeb (10th), Nick Schulman (13th) and David “Bakes” Baker (19th). $198,854 will be given to the winner.
We’ll end this recap with the exciting Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, packed with the biggest names of poker. 35 players remains out of an amazing line-up, Adrian Mateos finishing the day with the biggest stack. Prizes have not been announced yet but the prizepool is already over $7,6M. Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Jason Koon took the start but won’t make day 2.
Here is the current top 10:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 3,650,000 | 91 |
| 2 | Chris Hunichen | United States | 3,620,000 | 91 |
| 3 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 3,375,000 | 84 |
| 4 | Espen Jorstad | Norway | 2,200,000 | 55 |
| 5 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | 2,190,000 | 55 |
| 6 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 2,120,000 | 53 |
| 7 | Cary Katz | United States | 1,880,000 | 47 |
| 8 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | 1,800,000 | 45 |
| 9 | Justin Bonomo | United States | 1,795,000 | 45 |
| 10 | Ren Lin | United States | 1,655,000 | 41 |
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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