Donnie Peters
Almost double the starting stack for Bonomo
Nikolay Evdakov - 21,000
Vanessa Rousso - 20,000
Doyle Brunson - 20,000
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi - 18,000
Justin Bonomo - 16,000
Ralph Perry - 11,575
Ali Nejad - 11,250
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow - 7,450
Brett Richey - 2,550
Jason Gray - 1,600
Donnie Peters
The Bear battling with a tough table draw on Day 1
With so many top players in the field, this will be an extremely tough tournament to win. It's going to take a great deal of skill and some luck to take home this bracelet. Some of the players in the field have a tougher road to travel than others. Here are some of the tough tables in the room.
(Table 178)
Seat 1: Matt "HossTBF" Hawrilenko
Seat 2: Nikolay Losev
Seat 3: Jen Harman
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi
Seat 8: Va Shon "Julian Verse" Watkins
(Table 190)
Seat 2: Adam "csimmssux" Geyer
Seat 3: Michael Craig
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin
Seat 6: Mike "Sir Watts" Watson
Seat 7: Shawn Buchanan
Seat 8: Doyle Brunson
(Table 228)
Seat 2: Chris Reslock
Seat 3: Linda Johnson
Seat 5: David Levi
Seat 6: Raphael Zimmerman
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu
(Table 246)
Seat 1: Yuval Bronshtein
Seat 2: Jason Gray
Seat 3: Barry Greenstein
Seat 4: Yueqi Zhu
Seat 5: Stefan Rapp
Seat 8: Jason Potter
Maria Ho: (X-X) (X)
Robert Williamson III: (X-X) (X)
Picking up the action on fifth street, Williamson fired a bet with a pair of aces showing and Ho called. Williamson bet again on sixth and was called. After seventh, Williamson checked and let Ho do the betting. She did just that and fired. Williamson made the call.
Ho tabled () for a straight and a low to scoop the pot after Williamson mucked.
Donnie Peters
The field has 452 entrants in it and is paying 48 spots. This year's event has topped last year's field. Just a quick gander around the Brasilia room here at the Rio and you'll see tons of big names professionals everywhere. The field is extremely stacked with some of the best players in the world, which should make for a great tournament for the next three days. There are currently 20 players already busted, with 432 remaining in the field. We should have all the prizepool information shortly.
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