Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-12-2008 00:49 UTC-7

That's a Wrap!

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Play has concluded her in the Amazon room for the evening. We have roughly 122 players who will continue on to tomorrow's Day 2, which will start promptly at 2pm PDT.

Many pros still remain in the field including Howard Lederer, Eli Elezra, Noah Boeken, Anna Wroblewski, Kathy Liebert, Alex Jacob, Humberto Brenes, and Jonathan Little.

Sam El Sayed, who was high on the chip count for majority of the day, has around 200,000 and is our chip leader going into Day 2.

Make sure to tune in tomorrow for live updates of Day 2 of this event!

06-12-2008 05:04 UTC-7

Day 1 Official Chip Counts Released

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Alex Melnikow is the overnight chip leader

The chips have been bagged and tallied, and 121 players are shown as being alive in Event #21, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em, down from 732 at the start of the day's play. Alex Melnikow leads the way with 248,800 chips. The overnight top ten:

Alex Melnikow 248,800
Sam El Sayed 215,800
Jared Okun 170,000
Thanhdat Tran 164,700
Hasan Habib 140,200
Keith Tilston 135,400
David Seidman 119,800
Rajesh Vohra 117,700
Mark Radoja 117,700
Scott Freeman 115,800

Players return at 2pm on Thursday, with the first task of the day being to break through the 72-player money bubble. We'll be on hand with live, from-the-floor updates.

Tags: Alex Melnikow

Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed