Ryan Lally Bags Chiplead at End of Day 1B
Day 1b of the $1,700 Horseshoe Hammond Main Event accumulated a total of 588 entries adding to the 475 entries on Day 1a for a combined total of 1063 entries. 94 players advanced in Day 1a and 114 advanced in Day 1b for a total of 208 returning at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 20th.
The day was action-packed from the get-go and the top three stacks were all very close, with Ryan Lally bagging the chiplead with 448,000 in chips. Right behind him are both Gregory Stellatos and Sachin Chopra tied with 442,500.
Ryan Lally got a decent portion of his chips in the middle of the day eliminating Marshall White calling a turn shove with a pair of eights that held.
Gregory Stellatos got a very good start to the day picking up aces against kings and queens in a three-way all-in and holding to eliminate both of the opponents.
Some other notables to survive to Day 2 with big stacks were Aram Zobian with 326,000, Aaron Massey with 167,500, Eric Salazar with 134,500 and Ryan Jones who bagged 104,000
The majority of players did not find a bag at the end of the night though, being eliminate throughout. Those of who include Michael Wang, Kelly Minkin, Javier Zarco, Nick Pupillo and Kevin Maahs.
The 114 remaining will join the 94 players who survived on Day 1a for a total of 208 returning to the felt for the battle to win the $272,322 and a WSOPC Gold Ring on Day 2 at 11am on Sunday.
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and both players checked to see the 
on the turn where Haywood check-called a bet of 2,200.
landed on the river and Haywood fired out a bet of 11,000 and his opponent quickly mucked his hand. Haywood tabled the 
for a straight before collecting the pot.
. Marshall White bet 15,500 into a pot of about 40,000, Henry Zhou folded after a few moments and Ryan Lally called.
. White was first to act and thought for several moments before announcing all in. Lally got a count to determine that White's shove was for 51,500 before calling.
against the 
of White. The river came the 
and White was left without chips while Lally stacked his count to well above 200,000.
and the other had the 
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to the delight of Stellatos who had already pulled out his phone camera to show the big hand. The turn 
and river 
finished it out and gave Stellatos all of the chips of his defeated opponents.
fell on the turn giving both opponents a gutshot straight draw but the 
. Antoine McNeal called the bet of 5,800 of his opponent after a few mometns of thought. 
. The initial bettor made another bet of 13,500. McNeal confirmed the amount before making the call after about a minute, accidentally putting too much in for the call. "That's ok if you want to add to the pot" said his opponent. "I plan on taking it anyway" said McNeal as they went to the river which came the 
for quad fives and Kiletto tabled the cooler 
