Day 1A in the Books: Nettles Well Out in Front
Just like that, we have wrapped up Day 1a here at the WSOP-C Harrah’s Rincon main event! 216 players ponied up the $1,600 entry fee, and of those, about 120 remain. The player who is looking down on the rest is Luke Nettles, who bagged a whopping 197,700 in chips. That is nearly double anyone else in the room, as the next closest player is Stan Solis, who bagged 109,200.
There were a ton of familiar faces in the field today, and we still have a boatload of them moving on to day 2. Joe Tehan leads the notables with 92,400, and he will be joined tomorrow by Eric “Basebaldy” Baldwin, Bryan Devonshire, Gavin Griffin, Joe Kuether, Alex Masek, Scott Clements, Matthew Chang, Dennis Phillips, Matt Salsberg, Jonas Mackoff, and Freddy Deeb. Deeb is looking to win his second main event ring of the year, as he won the Circuit main event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles in January.
While we have a slew of big names who survived the day, there were a few of them that didn’t fare so well. Gavin Smith, Ray Henson, Sam Barnhart, Fabrice Soulier, Lars Bonding, Eddy Sabat, Bryce Yockey, and Brandon Cantu were amongst the players who did not survive the first flight. We expect to see all of them return for Day 1b.
Speaking of Day 1b, that flight is going to be underway shortly. Any player who was eliminated already can re-enter and join all the players who will be buying in for the first time. Once that session is complete, the remaining players from both flights will return tomorrow for Day 2. We will be back shortly with coverage of day 1b here at Harrah's Rincon!