The players are now on their final break of the day, but they'll return for only about 5 minutes of play in Level 15 before they end for the night. The prize pool is now up to $5.15 million but that is sure to climb before Day 2 starts tomorrow.
Day 1 is now complete in SCOOP 108-H: Main Event and there are six players who will start Day 2 with at least 2 million in chips. Canada's "beriuzy" is leading them with 2,372,359.
The opening day of SCOOP 108-H: Main Event is now in the books, and with entries still open until the start of Day 2, there are 518 entries in the game. That breaks the $5m guarantee by a small amount and has already grown a bit since the final hand ended with 515.
Canada's Rayan "beriuzy" Chamas is the chip leader going into the second day of play with 2,372,359 but there are five other players with more than 2 million chips to start Day 2. Quite a few of the PokerStars Team Pro members got into this event, but at the end of the day, only Lex "L.Veldhuis" Veldhuis had chips remaining, a bit less than double the start stack.
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg had a particularly rough, and quick, go of it in the $10k today. He tweeted that he played exactly one hand before busting.
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack)
Top Ten Stacks to Start Day 2
Place
Player
Country
Chips
1
Rayan "beriuzy" Chamas
Canada
2,372,359
2
Pargo18
Ireland
2,289,272
3
David "MissOracle" Yan
New Zealand
2,242,398
4
Dumitru "pora adrian" Pora
Romania
2,135,976
5
AnyExtras
Canada
2,075,897
6
Stumpfed
Canada
2,042,669
7
Fakeee1
Poland
1,947,513
8
Alex "FutureofMe" Kulev
Ireland
1,859,986
9
Retro_cheetah01
Poland
1,781,440
10
Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank
Austria
1,751,752
Action of the Day
The game got underway at 12:30 ET with 173 entries, but the field grew steadily throughout the day, ending with 515 entries when the final hand was dealt. That was enough to put $5.15 million into the prize pool, but that will grow before entries close at the start of Day 2.
Players weren't really afraid to get their chips in early on, depsite the $10k buy-in. PokerStars Team Pro Lex "L.Veldhuis" Veldhuisfive-bet shoved 179k in Level 2 to take down a big pot and he was able to run that through to a Day 2 stack.
He wasn't the only Team PokerStars player to enter the game today, but he was the last one standing. Sam "SamSquid" Grafton made the second deepest run, but he couldn't quite make it to a bag. He was in the top five during Level 2 after he rivered a flush but he busted near the end of the night.
Among the other Team members in play today were Alejandro "[Papo]AR" Lococo, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas, Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes, Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot, Sebastian "peace&loove'' Huber, and Fintan "EasyWithAces" Hand.
The chip leader going into the second day was a late-comer to the big stacks. "beriuzy" first found a big stack early in Level 14 and was among the first players stacking up 2 million chips. Day 2 action kicks off at 12:35 ET on Monday, May 29 and you can follow the action right here on PokerNews.