Melissa Gillett Leading the Pack in Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 started today with 275 players and the knowledge that hand-for-hand play would start quite quickly as 262 players would be cashing in Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. After ten 60-minute levels and a half level at the end, only 23 players remain to compete for the top prize of $391,960 and the gold WSOP bracelet.

Taking the massive chip lead into Day 3 is Melissa Gillett from Australia with 3,443,000 chips. Second in chips is Aditya Agarwal with 1,286,000, and third in the chip counts is Billy Rodgers (1,277,000). Other notables still in contention are Roman Korenev, Phil Collins and David Pham.

Day 3 will kick off at noon on Thursday in the Brasilia room. They will be playing down to a winner, so follow all the updates here on PokerNews. Below you can find the end-of-day-chip counts of the remaining 23 players.

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Brasilia	700	1	Nathan Pfluger	United States	653,000	41
Brasilia	700	2	Kevin Trettin	United States	385,000	24
Brasilia	700	3	Ivan Starostin	United States	276,000	17
Brasilia	700	4	Marquis Mccain	United States	460,000	29
Brasilia	700	5	James Miller	United States	380,000	24
Brasilia	700	7	Adam Bacon	United States	370,000	23
Brasilia	700	8	James Cerrotta	United States	418,000	26
Brasilia	700	9	Matthew Mlsna	United States	464,000	29

Brasilia	701	2	Graeme Ladd	United Kingdom	413,000	26
Brasilia	701	3	Phil Collins	United States	232,000	15
Brasilia	701	4	Jordan Young	United States	404,000	25
Brasilia	701	5	Joseph Brattole	United States	291,000	18
Brasilia	701	6	Yu Li	United States	472,000	30
Brasilia	701	7	David Pham	United States	356,000	22
Brasilia	701	8	Robert Lisser	United States	139,000	9
Brasilia	701	9	Melissa Gillett	Australia	3,443,000	215

Brasilia	702	2	Young Phan	United States	358,000	22
Brasilia	702	3	Billy Rodgers	United States	1,277,000	80
Brasilia	702	4	Roman Korenev	Russia	765,000	48
Brasilia	702	5	Caleb Patrick	United States	252,000	16
Brasilia	702	7	Aditya Agarwal	India	1,286,000	80
Brasilia	702	8	David Shober	United States	302,000	19
Brasilia	702	9	Huihan Wu	United States	454,000	28

Player	Chips	Progress
Melissa Gillett	3,443,000 708,000	708,000
Aditya Agarwal	1,286,000 426,000	426,000
Billy Rodgers	1,277,000 7,000	7,000
Roman Korenev	745,000 45,000	45,000

Nathan Pfluger	653,000 358,000	358,000
Yu Li	472,000 32,000	32,000
Matthew Mlsna	464,000 -11,000	-11,000
Marquis Mccain	460,000 -34,000	-34,000
Huihan Wu	454,000 92,000	92,000
James Cerrotta	418,000 48,000	48,000
Graeme Ladd	413,000 233,000	233,000
Jordan Young	404,000 -96,000	-96,000
Kevin Trettin	385,000 -40,000	-40,000
James Miller	380,000 30,000	30,000
Adam Bacon	370,000 285,500	285,500
Young Phan	358,000 18,000	18,000
David Pham	356,000 79,000	79,000

David Shober	302,000 -182,000	-182,000
Joseph Brattole	291,000 -9,000	-9,000
Ivan Starostin	276,000 133,500	133,500
Caleb Patrick	252,000 -28,000	-28,000
Phil Collins	232,000 -103,500	-103,500
Robert Lisser	139,000 -43,000	-43,000