Andrew Yakubovich has caught fire here in Event #3 following the dinner break.
He continues to drag in pot after pot and he is now sitting behind a mountain of chips.
Yakubovich is pacing the field and he's the first player to move over the half a million chip mark.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Andrew Yakubovich
|
505,000
505,000
|
505,000
|
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Andrew Yakubovich
Brian Wee has been a one man wrecking crew here in the late night hours.
Wee has now sent five players to the rail and collected five $100 black chip bounties.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Brian Wee
|
160,000
|
|
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Brian Wee
The field is thinning fast and there are 100 players remaining in Event #3.
There is less than an hour of play left in the night and Mike Dentale is still in the hunt with a healthy stack of 165,000.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Mike Dentale
|
165,000
165,000
|
165,000
|
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Mike Dentale
The players are now on a 15-minute color up break. We will pick back up on the action when play resumes.
The 2019 BPO Event #3: $500 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH drew a total of 688 entries and Day 1 is in the books after more than 12 hours of play.
There are 90 players moving on to Saturday's Day 2 and it's Gino Gesso leading the way with a massive stack of 709,000.
Day 2 play will resume at noon local time on Saturday, September 7 with 25 minutes remaining in Level 15.
Below is a look at the end-of-day chip counts.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Gino Gesso
|
709,000
709,000
|
709,000
|
Andrew Yakubovich
|
483,000
-22,000
|
-22,000
|
Svetlana Shuster
|
456,000
456,000
|
456,000
|
Louis Pelletteri
|
455,000
455,000
|
455,000
|
Xiang Lin
|
411,000
411,000
|
411,000
|
Alek Givotovsky
|
410,000
410,000
|
410,000
|
Elan Chabi
|
397,000
397,000
|
397,000
|
Michael Jouaneh
|
393,000
393,000
|
393,000
|
Thomas Tolbert
|
368,000
368,000
|
368,000
|
Robert Marsh
|
354,000
354,000
|
354,000
|
Arnaldo Gordon
|
344,000
344,000
|
344,000
|
Ihar Viatkou
|
336,000
336,000
|
336,000
|
Salvatore Anastasio
|
332,000
332,000
|
332,000
|
Glen Passin
|
322,000
322,000
|
322,000
|
Tim Macht
|
305,000
305,000
|
305,000
|
Stephen Gerber
|
300,000
300,000
|
300,000
|
Michael Nye
|
291,000
291,000
|
291,000
|
Kriss Czerwieniec
|
282,000
282,000
|
282,000
|
Andrey Malinin
|
280,000
280,000
|
280,000
|
Stefano Calenzani Prieto
|
279,000
279,000
|
279,000
|
Markus Hausberger
|
268,000
268,000
|
268,000
|
Daniel Marder
|
265,000
265,000
|
265,000
|
Derek Staib
|
248,000
248,000
|
248,000
|
Ronald Alina
|
245,000
245,000
|
245,000
|
Adam Pepper
|
243,000
243,000
|
243,000
|
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Gino GessoLeonard SandeMike DentaleMike NyeZachary Gruneberg
Event #3: $500 Black Chip Bounty
Day 1 Completed