button in SafariValentin Lita Bags Chip Lead in $600 Opener Flight B
The Day 1b session, which started at 10 a.m., has concluded in the $600 Opener, a No-Limit Hold'em tournament at the Potomac Summer Poker Open with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Valentin Lita finished the session with the biggest stack by a wide margin. The poker player from Ashburn with over $400,000 in live tournament cashes, ended play with 905,000 chips. Lita's nearest competitor is Shahab Shirazi, who bagged 437,000.
Shirazi won the 2024 Potomac Winter Poker Open for a career-best $246,852, beating out 444 entrants. Albert Gardner isn't far behind Shirazi in third place with 423,000 chips he'll take with him to Day 2.
Day 1c is underway at MGM National Harbor.