Day 1 of Min-Raise Marathon Down; Matros Looking for Bracelet Numero Dos
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The day began ten levels ago with 476 players, and limit or not, we're already down to 109. Josh Honegger sits atop the overnight chip counts with 87,000, followed by Daniel "amichaiKK" Makowsky with 74,600. Matt Matros won the first limit hold'em event of the series a few days ago, and with 53,700 in chips, he could make a serious run at number two.
Joe Serock, Bob Lauria, and Matt Glantz also bagged substantial stacks. Joining them for Day 2 will be Maria Ho, Jennifer Tilly, Rob Hollink, Shannon Shorr, and Lex Veldhuis. Daniel Negreanu made a good effort but ultimately busted in time to tend to his stack in the $10k 2-7 Championship. Tom Dwan was here a much shorter amount of time, and Phil Ivey's stack blinded away without a single appearance from the big man.
The 476 players, 30 more than turned out for the same event last year, built a prize pool of $866,322. The last 45 players standing tomorrow will get at least a piece of that, but they'd all love to pick up the $203,000 check that goes with the WSOP gold bracelet. Don't miss the action when the players return on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. local time to play to the money and then down to a final table.