Race to the Money is On as 246 Players Return For Day 2 of the $6,000 BSOP Championship
The 246 players who return for Day 2 of the record-shattering R$30,000 ($6,000 US) Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) Championship all have one common goal when play resumes at 2 p.m. local time: reach the money.
Alen Fillipi is the man who has to worry about sweating out the bubble the least, as he takes a massive stack of 1,260,000 into Day 2. Leandro Zavodini (1,018,000) is the only other player above the million-chip threshold, while Frederico Nizzato (920,000), Pedro Grochocki (886,000), and Dante Goya (815,000) round out the top five.
Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alen Fillipi | Brazil | 1,260,000 | 210 |
| 2 | Leandro Zavodini | Brazil | 1,018,000 | 170 |
| 3 | Frederico Nizzato | Brazil | 920,000 | 153 |
| 4 | Pedro Grochocki | Brazil | 886,000 | 148 |
| 5 | Dante Goya | Brazil | 815,000 | 136 |
| 6 | Leonardo Rizzo | Brazil | 783,000 | 131 |
| 7 | Daria Krashennikova | Russia | 726,000 | 121 |
| 8 | Gregory Fabião | Brazil | 711,000 | 119 |
| 9 | Brunno Botteon | Brazil | 679,000 | 113 |
| 10 | Edmilson Silva | Brazil | 673,000 | 112 |
Other top stacks include the boisterous Leonardo Rizzo (783,000), Brunno Botteon (679,000), Alisson Piekazewicz (656,000), Fabiano Kovalski (559,000), Ivan Luca (501,000), and Felipe Boianovsky (460,000).
Further down the leaderboard are Mehdi Chaoui (379,000), Masato Yokosawa (322,000), Vladas Tamasauskas (322,000), Dietrich Fast (293,000), Joao Simao (243,000), Martin Kabrhel (229,000), and Renan Bruschi (212,000), while Laurie Tournier (121,000), Zdenek Zizka (120,000), and Daniel Rezaei (120,000) come back as short stacks.
The four starting flights drew 714 players to the WTC Sheraton in Sao Paulo, generating a prize pool of R$19,385,000 ($3,877,000 US). The top 103 players will finish in the money, while the champion will take home R$4,000,000 ($800,000 US).
The action on Day 2 picks up on Level 11 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and a 6,000 big blind ante. Levels will be extended to 90 minutes from this point onwards. The schedule calls for six levels to be played today, with a 75-minute dinner break after Level 14. That should bring the field down past the money bubble by the end of the night.
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